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The Batch Newsletter

Bogus Apps, AI Boomtown, Better Embeddings, 2024 Highlights

The Batch AI News and Insights: It’s high time to take geoengineering more seriously as a potential tool to mitigate climate change.

Diagram of a transformer model using Jina embeddings and LoRA adapters, tailored for tasks like sentiment classification.

Machine Learning Research

Better Text Embeddings: Jina AI launches jina-embeddings-v3, a text embedding model with task-specific adapters

Text embedding models are often used to retrieve text, cluster text, determine similarity between texts, and generate initial embeddings for text classifiers. A new embedding model comes with adapters that specialize it to each of these use cases.

LLM leaderboard with Chinese models rising in ranks.

Tech & Society

A Year of Contending Forces: State of AI report highlights 2024’s major trends and breakthroughs

A new report documents the interplay of powerful forces that drove AI over the past year: open versus proprietary technology, public versus private financing, innovation versus caution.

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Business

U.S. Cracks Down on AI Apps That Overpromise, Underdeliver: U.S. Federal Trade Commission launches Operation AI Comply to tackle deceptive business practices

The United States government launched Operation AI Comply, targeting businesses whose uses of AI allegedly misled customers.

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Business

Malaysia’s Data Center Boom: Malaysia emerges as an AI and cloud computing hub, drawing billions in investment

Malaysia’s location, natural resources, and investor-friendly government are perfect for data centers, turning part of the country into an AI-fueled boomtown.

A futuristic AI system recreating pianists hand motions for a musical score.

Data Points

AI models can generate code, but how well do they understand it?: Falcon’s Mamba model outperforms transformers

The MI325X, AMD’s answer to NVIDIA’s H200. Research on new language model architectures from Microsoft. Mathcoder 2 makes open models better at mathematical reasoning. An AI system that recreates pianists’ hand movements.

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Data Points

Pyramid Flow takes a new approach to video: Gradio update makes it easier to build powerful AI webapps

Anthropic makes batch processing cheaper. A new leaderboard measures models’ finance performance. Aria introduces an new open multimodal MoE model. SETI’s new AI model helps search for life in outer space.

Diagram illustrating the process of developing, deploying, and promoting a malicious LLM application.

Machine Learning Research

AI’s Criminal Underground Revealed: Researchers uncover black market for AI-driven cybercrime services

Researchers probed the black market for AI services that are designed to facilitate cybercrime.

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Tech & Society

German Court Says LAION Didn’t Violate Copyrights: LAION wins copyright case in Germany

A German court dismissed a copyright lawsuit against LAION, the nonprofit responsible for large-scale image datasets used to train Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and other image generators.

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Machine Learning Research

Voice-to-Voice and More for GPT-4o API: OpenAI unveils tools for speech, vision, and cost-efficiency at DevDay

OpenAI launched a suite of new and updated tools to help AI developers build applications and reduce costs.

A demonstration of video editing through text input, altering a runner’s background and costume.

Machine Learning Research

Familiar Faces, Synthetic Soundtracks: Meta debuts Movie Gen for text-to-video generation with consistent characters

Meta upped the ante for text-to-video generation with new systems that produce consistent characters and matching soundtracks.

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Letters

Nobel Prizes for AI!: Nobel committees for physics and chemistry honored AI researchers. How can the AI community itself can celebrate the next generation of innovators?

Congratulations to Geoff Hinton and John Hopfield for winning the 2024 Physics Nobel Prize!