Business
China’s Emerging AI Hub: Inside DeepSeek and the other "little dragons" transforming Hangzhou into China's Silicon Valley
Hangzhou, a longtime manufacturing hub in eastern China, is blossoming into a center of AI innovation.
Analytics DeepLearning.AI
AI Careers
Chatbot Interviewers Fill More Jobs: Study shows AI agent interviewers improve hiring, retention in customer service jobs
Large language models may have advantages over human recruiters when conducting job interviews, a study shows.
Data Points
Microsoft’s first MAI foundation models: Latam-GPT, an LLM optimized with regional data
Anthropic and OpenAI’s audits of each others’ models. Claude’s opt-out training data policies. ChatGPT’s responses to mental health crises. Alibaba’s new AI inference chip.
Data Points
Google’s Nano Banana hits the scene: OpenAI’s latest voice-to-voice model
Anthropic’s browser use extension preview. Automation hits entry-level workers first. Reinforcement Learning from Checklist Feedback. Authors settle copyright lawsuit over pirated books.
The Batch Newsletter
AI-Powered Phones Get Proactive, Robot Antelope Joins Herd, LLM Environmental Impacts Get Measured
The Batch AI News and Insights: Parallel agents are emerging as an important new direction for scaling up AI. AI capabilities have scaled with more training data, training-time compute, and test-time compute.
Letters
Agents Running in Parallel Get There Faster: Parallel agents can accelerate AI systems as test-time compute scales up.
Parallel agents are emerging as an important new direction for scaling up AI. AI capabilities have scaled with more training data, training-time compute, and test-time compute.
Machine Learning Research
Better Image Processing Through Self-Supervised Learning: Meta’s DINOv3 gets an updated loss term and improved vision performance
DINOv2 showed that a vision transformer pretrained on unlabeled images could produce embeddings that are useful for a wide variety of tasks. Now it has been updated to improve the performance of its embeddings in segmentation and other vision tasks.
Robotics
Robot Antelope Joins Herd: Chinese scientists disguise modified robot dog as antelope to study herd behavior
Researchers in China disguised a quadruped robot as a Tibetan antelope to help study the animals close-up.
Science
Mistral Measures LLM Consumption of Energy, Water, and Materials: French AI startup discloses full lifecycle consumption and emissions for Mistral Large 2
The French AI company Mistral measured the environmental impacts of its flagship large language model.
Hardware
Proactive AI Assistance for Phones: Inside Magic Cue, Google’s new AI assistant for Pixel 10
Google’s latest smartphone sports an AI assistant that anticipates the user’s needs and presents helpful information without prompting.
Data Points
Perplexity offers AI news subscription plan: Nvidia Nano 2 employs Mamba for speed
Cohere’s new reasoning mode for open-weights Command A. Hacking MCP to turn Claude into an image generator. Google’s new AI deal with the U.S. government. Meta’s partnership with image generator Midjourney.
Data Points
DeepSeek releases a hybrid reasoning model: OpenAI unveils a new subscription plan for India
Alibaba’s new text and image editing features. Adobe’s tool to chat with your PDFs and other docs. Browsemaster, a new framework for agentic search. Surya, an IBM/NASA model that predicts solar weather.