Business
Big AI Spending Continues to Rise: Tech giants increase cloud spending to meet growing infrastructure demands
Top AI companies announced plans to dramatically ramp up their spending on AI infrastructure.
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Science
Reading Minds, No Brain Implant Required: Brain2Qwerty, a system that decodes thoughts using brain waves without surgery
To date, efforts to decode what people are thinking from their brain waves often relied on electrodes implanted in the cortex. New work used devices outside the head to pick up brain signals that enabled an AI system, as a subject typed, to accurately guess what they were typing.
Data Points
Anthropic releases Claude 3.7 Sonnet as a hybrid reasoning model: DeepSeek’s FlashMLA is its first entry in OpenInfra week
Figure’s Helix vision language action robotics model. Google fine-tunes its own family of open VL models. SuperGPQA may be the most challenging general knowledge test yet. Meta creates new framework to evaluate agentic LLMs.
Data Points
Microsoft builds a generative world-action model: Perplexity opens up uncensored “1776” version of DeepSeek-R1
Researchers develop a highly capable language diffusion model. Google’s hypothesis-making agent is your new research partner. A new family of vision-language models for low-resource devices. HP will brick Humane’s Ai Pin and repurpose its tech for new devices.
Letters
How AI Saved a Police Officer’s Life: A police drone located an officer under attack before it was too late. Get ready for many more stories like this.
Last month, a drone from Skyfire AI was credited with saving a police officer’s life after a dramatic 2 a.m. traffic stop.
The Batch Newsletter
Grok 3 Scales Up, Mobile Apps Generated To Order, Musk Moves On OpenAI, Officials Reverse Course on AI Regulation
The Batch AI News and Insights: Last month, a drone from Skyfire AI was credited with saving a police officer’s life after a dramatic 2 a.m. traffic stop.
Tech & Society
World Powers Move to Lighten AI Regulation: Global AI summit reveals deep divisions on regulation and governance
The latest international AI summit exposed deep divisions between major world powers regarding AI regulations.
Business
Musk Complicates OpenAI’s Plan: Elon Musk’s $97.4B bid for OpenAI rejected, fueling AI power struggle
Elon Musk and a group of investors made an unsolicited bid to buy the assets of the nonprofit that controls OpenAI, complicating the AI powerhouse’s future plans.
Machine Learning Research
Mobile Apps to Order: Replit’s agent-powered mobile app expands to full app development
Replit, an AI-driven integrated development environment, updated its mobile app to generate further mobile apps to order.
Machine Learning Research
Grok 3 Scales Up: Grok 3, xAI’s new model family, improves on its predecessors, adds reasoning
xAI’s new model family suggests that devoting more computation to training remains a viable path to building more capable AI.
Data Points
Perplexity unveils new Sonar model with Deep Research: Baidu says it will make Ernie open source and Ernie Bot free
Early version of o3 wows on Codeforces and IOI tests. Adobe debuts integrated Firefly web app with new video model. Mistral’s Arabic-language Saba model scores high on benchmarks. LM2 updates the transformer architecture with dedicated memory.
Data Points
OpenAI reveals simplified model roadmap: Thomson Reuters ruling constrains fair use claims
Apple and Alibaba strike an AI deal. Building a reasoning model without using chain of thought. Torque clustering may enable better, faster autonomous learning. Remaking BERT without using task-specific heads.