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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Letters

The Difference Between “AI Safety” and “Responsible AI”: Talk about “AI safety” obscures an important point; AI isn't inherently unsafe. Instead, let’s talk about “responsible AI.”

At the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris this week, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance said, “I’m not here to talk about AI safety.

The Batch Newsletter

OpenAI Does Deep Research, Google Goes to War, Alibaba Answers DeepSeek, Web Agents Do Tree Search

The Batch AI News and Insights: At the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris this week, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance said, “I’m not here to talk about AI safety.

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Machine Learning Research

Tree Search for Web Agents: How tree search improves AI agents’ ability to browse the web and complete tasks

Browsing the web to achieve a specific goal can be challenging for agents based on large language models and even for vision-language models that can process onscreen images of a browser.