The Batch Newsletter
The Batch AI News and Insights: Another year of rapid AI advances has created more opportunities than ever for anyone — including those just entering the field — to build software.
Data Points
GPT-5.2 Codex, OpenAI’s new agentic coding model. Qwen’s image layer segmentation model. A2UI, an open Google project to help agents build apps. Training robots to learn from human actions.
Data Points
GPT’s leaderboard-topping Image 1.5. Qwen’s 30B long-context reasoning model. iRobot’s bankruptcy and planned acquisition. Microsoft’s Voxel 3D generation model.
Letters
As amazing as LLMs are, improving their knowledge today involves a more piecemeal process than is widely appreciated.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch AI News and Insights: As amazing as LLMs are, improving their knowledge today involves a more piecemeal process than is widely appreciated.
Machine Learning Research
Enabling a pretrained large language model to process a data type other than text (say, images), possibly in a specialized domain (say, radiology), typically requires thousands to millions of examples that pair the other data (perhaps x-rays) with text.
Machine Learning Research
OpenAI launched GPT-5.2 only weeks after its CEO Sam Altman reportedly issued a “code red” alarm in response to Google's Gemini 3.
Business
Disney, the entertainment conglomerate that owns Marvel, Pixar, Lucasfilm and its own animated classics from 101 Dalmatians to Zootopia, licensed OpenAI to use its characters in generated videos.
Machine Learning Research
Runway’s GWM-1 family of video-generation models respond to user input in real time while producing scenes that remain consistent regardless of the camera’s position.
Data Points
Nvidia’s Nemotron 3 family of models, including a 30B standout. Microsoft’s RL-powered Agent Lightning. Google’s new Flash voice models and translation agents. “Slop,” 2025’s word of the year.
Data Points
Mistral’s Devstral 2’s cost-effective coding. GLM-4.6V’s addition of native function calling to vision-language reasoning. Cursor 2.2’s debug and web developer modes. A new executive order preempting local AI regulations in the U.S.
Letters
If you have not yet built an agentic workflow, I encourage you to try doing so, using the simple recipe I’ll share here!