Business
The Fall and Rise of Sam Altman: Inside Sam Altman’s brief ouster from OpenAI
A behind-the-scenes account provides new details about the abrupt firing and reinstatement of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in November 2023.
Analytics DeepLearning.AI
Business
Open Standard for Tool Use and Data Access Gains Momentum: OpenAI adopts Model Context Protocol to boost LLM tool integration
OpenAI embraced Model Context Protocol, providing powerful support for an open standard that connects large language models to tools and data.
Machine Learning Research
Google Unveils Gemini 2.5: Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental outperforms top AI models
Google’s new flagship model raised the state of the art in a variety of subjective and objective tests.
Data Points
OpenAI unveils new model suite for developers: Meta’s crawlers return to Europe
New vibe coding tools for Gemini. ChatGPT can remember all your conversations. Google’s new TPU is built for agents, inference. How college students use chatbots.
Data Points
Open-source DeepCoder matches top models: ML researchers accept an AI-written workshop paper
Google’s A2A protocol helps agents work together. Amazon debuts unified speech-to-speech model. Claude’s new subscription plan for power users. Elon Musk’s battle with OpenAI takes a new turn.
Letters
The Impact of U.S. Tariffs on AI: Broad tariffs will create challenges for AI and beyond, but I see a few silver linings. Here’s what’s in store.
I am so sorry that the U.S. is letting down our friends and allies.
The Batch Newsletter
Inside the Mind of Claude, Llama 4’s Mixture of Vision-Language Experts, More Open Multimodal Models, Neural Net for Tabular Data
The Batch AI News and Insights: I am so sorry that the U.S. is letting down our friends and allies.
Machine Learning Research
Better Than Trees for Tabular Data: Transformers can outperform decision trees at predicting unlabeled spreadsheet cells
If you have a collection of variables that represent, say, a cancer patient and you want to classify the patient’s illness as likely cancer or not, algorithms based on decision trees, such as gradient-boosted trees, typically perform better than neural networks.
Machine Learning Research
Better Multimodal Performance With Open Weights: Qwen2.5-Omni 7B raises the bar for small multimodal models
Alibaba’s latest open-weights system raises the bar for multimodal tasks in a relatively small model.
Machine Learning Research
Llama’s Mixture of Vision-Language Experts: Meta releases Llama 4 models, claims edge over AI competitors
Meta updated its popular open-weights models, claiming performance superior to closed competitors in three size classes.
Machine Learning Research
Ordinary LLMs Implicitly Take Reasoning Steps: Anthropic experiment finds Claude shows signs of unprompted reasoning
Even without explicit training in reasoning, large language models “think” in ways that may be more deliberate than previously understood.
Data Points
Meta’s got a brand new herd: Gemini 2.5 Pro gets a price tag
Microsoft personalizes its multitasking Copilot. Midjourney overhauls its leading image model. An early vibe coding entrant reenters a crowded field. A cybersecurity-optimized version of Gemini.