Business
OpenAI may be spending roughly twice as much money as it’s bringing in, a sign of the financial pressures of blazing the trail in commercial applications of AI.
Generative AI
A new company with deep roots in generative AI made an eye-catching debut.
Business
Prices for access to large language models are falling as providers exploit new efficiencies and compete for new customers.
Letters
When entrepreneurs build a startup, it is often their speed and momentum that gives them a shot at competing with the tech behemoths. This is true of countries as well.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch AI News and Insights | When entrepreneurs build a startup, it is often their speed and momentum that gives them a shot at competing with the tech behemoths.
Data Points
Nvidia’s new Blackwell chips face months-long delays, Mistral adds fine-tuning and other custom tools, Langchain Studio IDE is built to build agents, Character.AI open-sources its in-house prompt developer
Business
Character.AI followed an emerging pattern for ambitious AI startups, trading its leadership to a tech giant in exchange for funds and a strategic makeover.
Letters
I’m delighted to announce AI Python for Beginners, a sequence of free short courses that teach anyone to code, regardless of background.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch AI News & Insights: I’m delighted to announce AI Python for Beginners, a sequence of free short courses that teach anyone to code, regardless of background.
Machine Learning Research
Seemingly an innocuous form of expression, ASCII art opens a new vector for jailbreak attacks on large language models (LLMs), enabling them to generate outputs that their developers tuned them to avoid producing.
Tech & Society
Buoyed by its military success developing unmanned aerial vehicles, Ukraine is building armed naval drones.
Tech & Society
Employers are embracing automated hiring tools, but prospective employees have AI-powered techniques of their own.