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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

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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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.

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Machine Learning Research

Balancing Web Data Distributions: Automated method organizes large datasets for better model performance

Datasets that were scraped from the web tend to be unbalanced, meaning examples of some classes (say, cats) are plentiful while examples of others (say, caterpillars) are scarce.

Tech & Society

Western Powers Sign AI Treaty: International AI treaty sets standards to support innovation and human rights

The European Union, United Kingdom, United States, and other countries signed a legally binding treaty that regulates artificial intelligence.

Chart comparing Waymo and human incidents across three safety categories.

Business

Waymo Spotlights Safety Record: Waymo claims its robotaxis are safer than human drivers, citing new safety data

Waymo, the autonomous vehicle division of Alphabet, released an analysis of its own safety data. It suggests that the company’s self-driving cars are safer than human drivers on the same roads.

Surreal scene of a figure attempting an AI jailbreak by hacking a glowing, futuristic padlock in a digital, sci-fi setting.

Data Points

Replit Agent builds and deploys applications using natural language prompts: DeepSeek-V2.5’s open model blends coding and chat

NVIDIA’s Blackwell chips impress on hardware tests, fine-tuned versions of Llama 3.1 add reflection, most AI jailbreaks may not amount to much, new architecture extends context windows to 100M tokens.

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Data Points

LAION cleans up its image dataset: Plus, OLMoE outcompetes smaller open models

AlphaProteo, a DeepMind system that designs novel proteins, updates and price drops for Command-R and Command-R+, Anthropic shows off easy software projects in Claude, YouTube builds system to detect synthetic music and faces.

Letters

An Asian AI Hub-in-the-Making: South Korea is well positioned to become a strong AI hub

Recently I visited South Korea, where I spoke at length about AI with President Yoon Suk Yeol. Based on what I saw there in government, business, and academia, the nation is well positioned to become a strong AI hub.

The Batch Newsletter

Hallucination Index, AI-Powered Policing Goes National, Explainable LLMs, Faster Processing for Longer Inputs

The Batch AI News and Insights: Recently I visited South Korea, where I spoke at length about AI with President Yoon Suk Yeol. Based on what I saw there in government, business, and academia, the nation is well positioned to become a strong AI hub.

Machine Learning Research

Making LLMs Explainable: Google’s Gemma Scope probes how large language models think

Researchers have probed the inner workings of individual layers of large language models. A new tool applies this approach to all layers.