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Data Points

Open-R1 is building a training pipeline and datasets for reasoning models: Canvas now has o1, GPT-4o has a new knowledge cutoff

Wiz finds DeepSeek’s unprotected user database. Open weights model Mistral Small gets an update. Janus-Pro is DeepSeek’s top multimodal model. Yoshua Bengio’s team releases long-awaited AI safety report.

Letters

Three Takeaways from DeepSeek’s Big Week: Innvations by China’s AI powerhouse DeepSeek highlight major shifts in the international scene

The buzz over DeepSeek this week crystallized, for many people, a few important trends that have been happening in plain sight.

The Batch Newsletter

Reinforcement Learning Heats Up, White House Orders Muscular AI Policy, Computer Use Gains Momentum, Fine Control of Fine-Tuning

The Batch AI News and Insights: The buzz over DeepSeek this week crystallized, for many people, a few important trends that have been happening in plain sight.

Bar chart comparing active vs. random sampling effects on length, diversity, and toxicity after fine-tuning.

Machine Learning Research

Fine-Tuning Fine Points: Active inheritance, a smarter way to fine-tune models on synthetic data

The practice of fine-tuning models on synthetic data is becoming well established. But synthetic training data, even if it represents the training task well, may include characteristics like toxicity that impart unwelcome properties in the trained model’s output...

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Tech & Society

White House Orders Muscular AI Policy: U.S. shifts AI strategy to remove regulations and reinforce global leadership

Under a new president, the United States reversed its approach to AI regulation, seeking global dominance by reducing restrictions.

AI assistant processes ‘Find me a family-friendly campsite’ and suggests options.

Machine Learning Research

Computer Use Gains Momentum: OpenAI’s Operator automates online tasks with a new AI agent

OpenAI introduced an AI agent that performs simple web tasks on a user’s behalf.

Diagram of a reinforcement learning system for training LLMs, showing data and weight flow processes.

Machine Learning Research

Reinforcement Learning Heats Up: How DeepSeek-R1 and Kimi k1.5 use reinforcement learning to improve reasoning

Reinforcement learning is emerging as an avenue for building large language models with advanced reasoning capabilities.

Game developers using AI to build a 3D world.

Data Points

Kimi’s k1.5 is o1’s newest competitor; Learn how it was trained: Atlas, a Mayo Clinic model to detect cancer and other diseases

Claude’s Citations API makes it easier to track your sources. Browser Use challenges Computer Use, for free. How game developers both adopt and fear AI. Hunyuan’s new open model builds 3D assets with textures.

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Data Points

OpenAI’s Operator brings agents to the browser: U.S. reverses course on AI regulation

ByteDance’s Doubao promises GPT-4o performance at cut-rate prices. Perplexity debuts new API grounding in web search. Hugging Face’s SmolVLM gets even smaller. Benchmark-maker Epoch AI and OpenAI criticized for keeping funding deal under wraps.

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Letters

How to Cool a Warming Planet: The only plausible path to keeping climate change in check is geoengineering.

Greetings from Davos, Switzerland! Many business and government leaders are gathered here again for the annual World Economic Forum to discuss tech, climate, geopolitics, and economic growth.

The Batch Newsletter

DeepSeek’s Open Reasoning Model, Affordable Humanoid Robots, Texas’ Restrictive AI Law, GenAI for Electronics

The Batch AI News and Insights: Greetings from Davos, Switzerland! Many business and government leaders are gathered here again for the annual World Economic Forum to discuss tech, climate, geopolitics, and economic growth.

Workflow for inverse design using deep learning to predict S-parameters and radiation in structures.

Machine Learning Research

Generated Chip Designs Work in Mysterious Ways: Researchers used deep learning and an evolutionary algorithm to design chips in minutes

Designing integrated circuits typically requires years of human expertise. Recent work set AI to the task with surprising results.