Business
AI Insights from Big Pharma: Johnson & Johnson reveals its revised AI strategy
The world’s biggest pharmaceutical company by revenue shed light on its AI strategy.
Analytics DeepLearning.AI
Machine Learning Research
The User Is Always… a Genius!: OpenAI pulls GPT-4o update after users report sycophantic behavior
OpenAI’s most widely used model briefly developed a habit of flattering users, with laughable and sometimes worrisome results.
Machine Learning Research
Qwen3 Takes On DeepSeek-R1: Alibaba releases the Qwen3 family of open LLMs with optional reasoning
Alibaba’s new model family may unseat DeepSeek-R1’s four-month reign as the top open-weights large language model.
Data Points
Google’s latest language-learning project: DeepWiki, a new tool to learn unfamiliar codebases
DeepSeek’s new mathematical model. Meta’s latest ChatGPT competitor. A new approach to generating extended-length video. AI shopping gets online payment giants’ blessing.
Data Points
Alibaba outdoes itself with latest open models: Chatbot Arena faces accusations of unequal access
Microsoft’s Phi-4 updates add reasoning to small models. OpenAI rolls back cloying update to GPT-4o, explains what went wrong. Amazon debuts its largest multimodal teacher/agent model yet. Meta partners with fast inference providers for new official API.
Letters
The AI Revolution Comes to Grade-School Classrooms: Kira Learning is using AI to help teachers individualize computer-science education and address social-emotional needs.
I hope we can empower everyone to build with AI. Starting from K-12, we should teach every student AI enabled coding, since this will enable them to become more productive and more empowered adults.
The Batch Newsletter
OpenAI’s Hit Image Generator, Hot AI Startups, Better Recommendations, Music Generation for Pros
The Batch AI News and Insights: I hope we can empower everyone to build with AI.
Machine Learning Research
Inferring Customer Preferences: LLMs boost shopping recommendations by decoding what users want
Large language models can improve systems that recommend items to purchase by inferring customer preferences.
Business
Up-and-Coming Startups: AI agents and infrastructure dominate CB Insights’ Top 100 AI Startups list
AI agents and infrastructure made a strong showing on CB Insights’s latest list of the top 100 AI startups.
Machine Learning Research
Music Generation for Pros: Google upgrades its AI music tools for professional use
Google refreshed its experimental tools for composers and producers.
Machine Learning Research
New Image Generator for OpenAI API: OpenAI launches API access to GPT Image 1, ChatGPT’s viral image generator
ChatGPT’s image generator is available via API.
Data Points
Zhipu AI builds smaller, open models to rival DeepSeek’s: Baidu accelerates China’s AI price war
Microsoft adds search and research tools and an Agent Store. Adobe updates its image model, opens door to competitors. Understanding why AI models react the way they do. Dia, an open speech-to-text model to rival ElevenLabs and NotebookLM.