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Data Points

Alibaba’s impressive suite of open models: Mistral cuts prices across its lineup

Runway adds video-to-video and API. Moshi, a new open speech model. LlamaCoder’s open webapp builder alternative. California restricts synthetic actors and election deepfakes.

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Letters

Our New Specialization, the Data Engineering Professional Certificate!: Engineers who can build systems to manage data are in high demand. The Data Engineering Professional Certificate will make you job-ready.

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The Batch Newsletter

Models Built for Reasoning, High Gear for Llama 3.1, Brains for Warehouse Robots, Stopping LLMs From Plagiarizing

The Batch AI News and Insights: Years ago, when I was working at a large tech company, I was responsible for the data warehouse.

Machine Learning Research

Reducing Memorization in LLMs: A technique that masks tokens in large language models, protecting data privacy

Studies have established that large language models can memorize the text passages they’ve been trained on repeatedly and regurgitate them when prompted in adversarial and, though rarely, in benign ways.

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Business

Amazon Boosted by Covariant: Amazon strengthens logistics and robotics with new AI partnership

Amazon took on talent and technology from robotics startup Covariant to enhance its warehouse automation, an area critical to its core ecommerce business.

Hardware

High Gear for Llama 3.1 405B: SambaNova boosts Llama 3.1 performance with fast, free access to largest model

SambaNova raised the speed limit for access to the largest model in the Llama 3.1 family — and it’s free.

OpenAI's model scores on the GPQA Diamond tests in biology, chemistry, and physics, along with their overall score.

Machine Learning Research

OpenAI Forges Chains of Thought: OpenAI’s o1 models excel in reasoning, outperform GPT-4o in math and coding

Preliminary versions of OpenAI’s new model family were trained explicitly to think step-by-step, yielding outstanding marks in math, science, and coding — but users can’t see their reasoning steps.

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Data Points

A new language model tool for web scraping and conversion: Plus, a plan to combat AI sexual abuse imagery

Hugging Face open-sources an LLM evaluation suite, Adobe announces its Firefly Video model, Meta researchers blend image diffusion with text transformers, NotebookLM can now generate synthetic podcasts.

Data Points

OpenAI’s o1 models recognize and fix mistakes: Plus, explaining Reflection 70B’s replication controversy

Copilot adds fine-tuning for faster code completion, DataGemma uses RAG and RIG for fact-retrieval, Mistral introduces its open multimodal model, results of the latest summit on military AI.

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Letters

Why Science-Fiction Scenarios of AI’s Emergent Behavior Are Likely to Remain Fictional: The sudden apparance of “emergent” AI capabilities may be an artifact of the metrics you study

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The Batch Newsletter

Nations Sign Binding AI Treaty, Waymo Reveals Safety Record, 2D to 3D Goes Mainstream, Balancing Web Data Distributions

The Batch AI News and Insights: Over the weekend, my two kids colluded in a hilariously bad attempt to mislead me to look in the wrong place during a game of hide-and-seek.

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Machine Learning Research

2D-to-3D Goes Mainstream: AI systems from Stability AI and Shutterstock transform 2D images into 3D meshes in seconds

Traditionally, building 3D meshes for gaming, animation, product design, architecture, and the like has been labor-intensive. Now the ability to generate 3D meshes from a single image is widely available.