Business
Benchmarking Costs Climb: Reasoning LLMs Are Pricey to Test
An independent AI test lab detailed the rising cost of benchmarking reasoning models.
Analytics DeepLearning.AI
The Batch Newsletter
FLUX.1 Kontext’s Consistent Characters, Benchmarking Costs Climb, Mary Meeker’s Action-Packed AI Report, Better Video Gen
The Batch AI News and Insights: There’s a new breed of GenAI Application Engineers who can build more-powerful applications faster than was possible before, thanks to generative AI.
Letters
Meet The New Breed of GenAI Application Engineers: A new breed of software engineers is building more powerful applications faster than ever, thanks to generative AI. Here’s how to identify them in job interviews.
There’s a new breed of GenAI Application Engineers who can build more-powerful applications faster than was possible before, thanks to generative AI.
Data Points
Gemini 2.5 Pro June update now available in preview: Windsurf users seek alternatives to Claude 4 models
Mistral’s new integrated, fine-tunable coding tool. ChatGPT’s connectors, both official and DIY. Nvidia’s new small, open OCR and document analysis model. Reddit’s lawsuit against Anthropic over alleged scraping.
Machine Learning Research
Phishing for Agents: Columbia University researchers show how to trick trusting AI agents with poisoned links
Researchers identified a simple way to mislead autonomous agents based on large language models.
Tech & Society
AI Uses Energy, AI Saves Energy: The International Energy Agency examines the energy costs and potential savings of the AI boom
AI’s thirst for energy is growing, but the technology also could help produce huge energy savings over the next five to 10 years, according to a recent report.
Business
Machine Translation in Action: Duolingo turns to AI translation to expand its most popular courses to all 28 user languages
AI is bringing a massive boost in productivity to Duolingo, maker of the most popular app for learning languages.
Machine Learning Research
Next-Level DeepSeek-R1: DeepSeek-R1’s update leads all open models and brings it up to date with the latest from Google and OpenAI
DeepSeek updated its groundbreaking DeepSeek-R1 large language model to strike another blow for open-weights performance.
Letters
How AI Fund Is Building AI Builders: AI-enabled coding empowers anyone build software that boosts productivity and makes life easier. Here’s now non-engineers at AI Fund are building apps for fun and profit.
Everyone can benefit by learning to code with AI! At AI Fund, the venture studio I lead, everyone — not just the engineers — can vibe code or use more sophisticated AI-assisted coding techniques.
The Batch Newsletter
DeepSeek-R1 Refreshed, AI’s Energy Conundrum, Agents Get Phished, Machine Translation in Action
The Batch AI News and Insights: Everyone can benefit by learning to code with AI! At AI Fund, the venture studio I lead, everyone — not just the engineers — can vibe code or use more sophisticated AI-assisted coding techniques.
Data Points
How AI models can encourage bad behavior: Edge Gallery deploys mobile models without internet connection
BAGEL, an open ByteDance model that can read and write images and text. Perplexity’s Labs, a new tool to generate research artifacts. A database security failure in Lovable’s coding platform. MIT Technology Review’s new report on AI’s energy footprint.
Data Points
DeepSeek-R1 regains open-weights crown: Researchers find critical vulnerability in GitHub MCP server
NLWeb, an open-source framework to bring AI chat to any website. FLUX.1 Kontext challenges GPT-Image with image generation and editing. LMEval, a new open-source suite for iteratively benchmarking models. Amazon’s new content deal with The New York Times.