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Golden lotus with circuit design symbolizes India’s push for indigenous AI across multiple native languages.

Tech & Society

India Pushes to Build Indigenous AI: India launches GPU network and talent programs to boost local LLMs

India, which has limited funding and large numbers of languages and dialects, is redoubling its efforts to build native large language models.

Bar charts comparing GPT-5’s speed, price, and intelligence vs. top AI models like Claude, Gemini, and Grok in 2025 benchmarks.

Machine Learning Research

GPT-5 Takeoff Encounters Turbulence: OpenAI's new model hits turbulence with cost, performance, and API complaints

OpenAI launched GPT-5, the highly anticipated successor to its groundbreaking series of large language models, but glitches in the rollout left many early users disappointed and frustrated.

Andrew Ng receives honorary degree at University of Exeter, July 2025, with university officials during graduation ceremony.

Letters

AI Transformation Comes to Universities: Exeter University groups computer science with business and environmental science, creating synergies that span AI, the economy, and the natural environment.

Just as many businesses are transforming to become more capable by using AI, universities are too.

The Batch Newsletter

GPT-5’s Rough Takeoff, AI Video Blockbusters, India’s Homegrown LLMs, Synthetic Data Generation

The Batch AI News and Insights: Just as many businesses are transforming to become more capable by using AI, universities are too.

Two giant GPUs clash in a futuristic arena, cheered by a stadium crowd, symbolizing AI hardware battles and tech competition.

Data Points

GPT-4o is back in ChatGPT: Hugging Face’s take on AI spreadsheets

Kaggle’s new Game Arena model leaderboard. Nvidia’s latest models for robotics simulations. Chipmakers’ unusual revenue deal with the U.S. government. GitHub’s integration into Microsoft’s AI division.

Modern radio studio with multiple monitors, microphones, and speakers, operated by a man wearing headphones.

Data Points

OpenAI’s long-awaited GPT-5 has arrived: Claude’s Opus model gets an update

Genie 3, Google’s new world model for gaming and robotics. Eleven Music, the voice startup’s entry into music generation. Cogito V2 Preview, four impressive open-weights models. Jules, Google’s coding assistant, now out of beta.

A silhouette of a conductor leads a performance in front of a glowing data center, as an audience watches from a theater. Red curtains frame the scene, symbolizing AI model orchestration.

The Batch Newsletter

Open Agentic LLMs Proliferate, Robot Removes Gallbladders, Reasoning Models Boost Emissions, OpenAI Re-Opens

The Batch AI News and Insights: Recently Meta made headlines with unprecedented, massive compensation packages for AI model builders exceeding $100M (sometimes spread over multiple years).

Letters

Why Meta Is Paying AI Engineers $100M: Meta’s massive compensation packages make sense considering the cost and potential return of delivering cutting-edge AI.

Recently Meta made headlines with unprecedented, massive compensation packages for AI model builders exceeding $100M (sometimes spread over multiple years).

A fully autonomous surgical robot clips and cuts a bile duct in an ex-vivo gallbladder removal experiment using the da Vinci system, guided by AI.

Machine Learning Research

Robot Surgeon Cuts and Clips: Doctors at Stanford, Johns Hopkins, and Optosurgical operate on animal organs without human intervention

An autonomous robot performed intricate surgical operations without human intervention.

Benchmark comparison of GLM-4.5 models against top AI systems in reasoning, coding, and agentic tasks, showing GLM-4.5’s strong performance in math, tool use, and software engineering.

Machine Learning Research

GLM-4.5, an Open, Agentic Contender: Zhipu AI (Z.ai) releases open-weights GLM-4.5 models that perform comparably to the latest from Claude and DeepSeek

The race is on to develop large language models that can drive agentic interactions. Following the one-two punch of Moonshot’s Kimi K2 and Alibaba’s Qwen3-235B-A22B update, China’s Z.ai aims to one-up the competition.

Electric substation representing the energy use and carbon emissions linked to running large AI language models.

Science

Reasoning Boosts Carbon Emissions: Researchers confirm reasoning models that generate more tokens have a bigger environmental footprint

In the era of reasoning models, delivering better answers to questions has an environmental cost. A new study quantifies the impact.

Table comparing accuracy and Elo scores of gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b models across benchmarks and tool use.

Machine Learning Research

The Re-Opening of OpenAI: GPT-OSS, OpenAI’s first open-weights models since GPT-2, arrives in 120 billion and 20 billion parameter versions

The “open” is back in play at OpenAI.