Machine Learning Research
DeepSeek updated its groundbreaking DeepSeek-R1 large language model to strike another blow for open-weights performance.
Letters
Everyone can benefit by learning to code with AI! At AI Fund, the venture studio I lead, everyone — not just the engineers — can vibe code or use more sophisticated AI-assisted coding techniques.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch AI News and Insights: Everyone can benefit by learning to code with AI! At AI Fund, the venture studio I lead, everyone — not just the engineers — can vibe code or use more sophisticated AI-assisted coding techniques.
Data Points
BAGEL, an open ByteDance model that can read and write images and text. Perplexity’s Labs, a new tool to generate research artifacts. A database security failure in Lovable’s coding platform. MIT Technology Review’s new report on AI’s energy footprint.
Data Points
NLWeb, an open-source framework to bring AI chat to any website. FLUX.1 Kontext challenges GPT-Image with image generation and editing. LMEval, a new open-source suite for iteratively benchmarking models. Amazon’s new content deal with The New York Times.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch AI News and Insights: I am alarmed by the proposed cuts to U.S. funding for basic research, analyzed here, and the impact this would have for U.S. competitiveness in AI and other areas.
Letters
I am alarmed by the proposed cuts to U.S. funding for basic research, analyzed here, and the impact this would have for U.S. competitiveness in AI and other areas.
Tech & Society
A study co-authored by tech-manual publisher Tim O’Reilly shows that OpenAI trained GPT-4o on parts of his company’s books that were not made freely available.
Machine Learning Research
DeepSeek made headlines late last year, when it built a state-of-the-art, open-weights large language model at a cost far lower than usual. The upstart developer shared new details about its method.
Business
Google revamped its roster of models, closed and open, and added more AI-powered features to its existing products.
Machine Learning Research
Anthropic continued its tradition of building AI models that raise the bar in coding tasks.
Data Points
A new earth system model that can predict weather disasters. Google’s speedy diffusion-based text generation model. Claude 4’s new system prompts for power users. Microsoft’s AI agent marketplace for developers.