Tech & Society
Audio Generation Clear of Copyrights: Stability AI releases enhanced text-to-audio generator Stable Audio Open
Sonically minded developers gained a high-profile text-to-audio generator.
Analytics DeepLearning.AI
Tech & Society
Apple’s Gen AI Strategy Revealed: Apple unveils AI features in new iOS and MacOS update during WWDC
Apple presented its plan to imbue its phones and computers with artificial intelligence.
Data Points
Anthropic makes tool use available for all users: Plus, ProteinViz makes protein visualization open-source again
This week’s top AI stories included: E.U. countries approving the AI Act, Google responding to criticism of AI answers in search, A new set of open-world vision models, A study on worldwide adoption of generative AI
Letters
Blenders Versus Bombs, or Why California’s Proposed AI Law is Bad for Everyone: California’s proposed AI law SB-1047 stifles innovation and open source in the name of safety.
The effort to protect innovation and open source continues. I believe we’re all better off if anyone can carry out basic AI research and share their innovations.
The Batch Newsletter
The AI PC Arrives, OpenAI Used For Disinformation, U.S. and China Seek AI Agreement, Training Models to Reason
The Batch AI News and Insights: The effort to protect innovation and open source continues. I believe we’re all better off if anyone can carry out basic AI research and share their innovations.
Machine Learning Research
Better Teachers Make Better Students: Microsoft‘s Orca 2 strengthens the native reasoning abilities of smaller models
A relatively small student LLM that learns to mimic a larger teacher model can perform nearly as well as the teacher while using much less computation. It can come even closer if the teacher also teaches reasoning techniques.
Tech & Society
U.S. and China Seek AI Agreement: U.S. and China open dialogue to prevent AI catastrophes
The United States and China opened a dialogue to avert hypothetical AI catastrophes.
Tech & Society
Disinformation Documented: OpenAI takes action against misuse of its models in propaganda
OpenAI models were used in five disinformation campaigns, the company said.
Tech & Society
Rise of the AI PC: Microsoft launches AI-driven Copilot+ PCs
Generative AI plays a starring role in the latest Windows PCs.
Data Points
How top models perform on a challenging new benchmark: Plus, Open AI’s latest agreements with news publishers
This week's top AI stories feature a new model from Mistral designed for coding, Microsoft’s updated Phi-3 family of small language models, OpenAI’s new safety and security team, and a family of models from Cohere that supports 23 global languages:
Letters
We Need Better Evals for LLM Applications: It’s hard to evaluate AI applications built on large language models. Better evals would accelerate progress.
A barrier to faster progress in generative AI is evaluations (evals), particularly of custom AI applications that generate free-form text.
The Batch Newsletter
Heart-Risk Model Saves Lives, Self-Driving on Unruly Roads, Knowledge Workers Embrace AI, Richer Context for RAG
The Batch AI News and Insights: A barrier to faster progress in generative AI is evaluations (evals), particularly of custom AI applications that generate free-form text.