Business
U.S. Tightens Grip on AI Chips: U.S. makes new rules for AI chip export rules to China, launches Nvidia investigation
The U.S. government escalated its long-running effort to block China’s access to cutting-edge AI hardware.
Analytics DeepLearning.AI
Hardware
Hugging Face Rolls Out Open Robot: Hugging Face acquires Pollen Robotics, launches Reachy 2 robot for open-source research
Hugging Face has made a name by providing open AI models. Now it’s providing an open robot.
Machine Learning Research
OpenAI Launches Cost-Effective Alternatives: OpenAI replaces GPT-4.5 with GPT-4.1 Family, plus o3 and o4-mini, new models focused on reasoning and coding
OpenAI refreshed its roster of models and scheduled the largest, most costly one for removal.
Data Points
Evaluating the best AI search engines: Claude can read your Gmail and the web
New BitNet model shows that 1,0,-1 might be enough. Kling gets a model update with image and video inputs. Google rolls out video generation and animation model to subscribers. Music streamer Deezer notes sharp uptick in AI-generated music.
Data Points
Wikimedia wants to help build AI for the commons: Pricing and availability for o3 and o4-mini
Gemini 2.5 Flash blends speed with budgeted reasoning. IBM’s Granite Speech sets SOTA in transcription accuracy. Recall will soon return to Copilot Plus PCs. OpenAI will shelve its biggest, costliest model.
Letters
We Iterate on Models. We Can Iterate on Evals, Too: Building automated evals doesn’t need to be a huge investment. Start with a few quick-and-dirty examples and iterate!
I’ve noticed that many GenAI application projects put in automated evaluations (evals) of the system’s output probably later — and rely on humans to manually examine and judge outputs longer — than they should.
The Batch Newsletter
Google Unveils Gemini 2.5, MCP Gains Momentum, Behind Sam Altman’s Fall and Rise, LLMs That Understand Misspellings
The Batch AI News and Insights: I’ve noticed that many GenAI application projects put in automated evaluations (evals) of the system’s output probably later — and rely on humans to manually examine and judge outputs longer — than they should.
Machine Learning Research
Toward LLMs That Understand Misspellings: New byte-based model beats Llama 3 on spelling, noise, and translation
Researchers built a model that’s more robust to noisy inputs like misspellings, smarter about character-level information like the number of R's in strawberry, and potentially better able to understand unfamiliar languages that might share groups of letters with familiar languages.
Business
The Fall and Rise of Sam Altman: Inside Sam Altman’s brief ouster from OpenAI
A behind-the-scenes account provides new details about the abrupt firing and reinstatement of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in November 2023.
Business
Open Standard for Tool Use and Data Access Gains Momentum: OpenAI adopts Model Context Protocol to boost LLM tool integration
OpenAI embraced Model Context Protocol, providing powerful support for an open standard that connects large language models to tools and data.
Machine Learning Research
Google Unveils Gemini 2.5: Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental outperforms top AI models
Google’s new flagship model raised the state of the art in a variety of subjective and objective tests.
Data Points
OpenAI unveils new model suite for developers: Meta’s crawlers return to Europe
New vibe coding tools for Gemini. ChatGPT can remember all your conversations. Google’s new TPU is built for agents, inference. How college students use chatbots.