Data Points
The new device OpenAI is building with Jony Ive. Mistral’s new open-weight software engineering model. Falcon-Arabic, a new 7B model that excels in multiple regional dialects. Google’s new multimodal model for mobile devices.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch AI News and Insights: In the age of AI, large corporations — not just startups — can move fast. I often speak with large companies’ C-suite and Boards about AI strategy and implementation, and would like to share some ideas that are applicable to big companies.
Letters
In the age of AI, large corporations — not just startups — can move fast. I often speak with large companies’ C-suite and Boards about AI strategy and implementation, and would like to share some ideas that are applicable to big companies.
Machine Learning Research
Using an 8-bit number format like FP8 during training saves computation compared to 16- or 32-bit formats, but it can yield less-accurate results. Researchers trained models using 4-bit numbers without sacrificing accuracy.
Business
The United States government announced sweeping agreements to sell tens of billions of dollars worth of AI technology and services to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Tech & Society
An unauthorized update by an xAI employee caused the Grok chatbot to introduce South African politics into unrelated conversations, the company said.
Machine Learning Research
OpenAI launched an agentic software-development system.
Data Points
U.S., China spar over Huawei chips. Nvidia makes it easier to build custom data centers. Meta’s Open Molecules project hopes to revolutionize chemistry. New research examines language models’ win rates in games.
Data Points
Windsurf introduces SWE-1 family of coding/engineering models. Stripe adapts transformer architecture for versatile payments model. Alibaba’s top video model gets another boost. U.S. Republicans make an end run around local AI regulations.
Letters
AI’s ability to make tasks not just cheaper, but also faster, is underrated in its importance in creating business value.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch AI News and Insights: AI’s ability to make tasks not just cheaper, but also faster, is underrated in its importance in creating business value.
Machine Learning Research
Improving a large language model’s factual accuracy typically requires making it bigger, which in turn, involves more computation. Researchers devised an architecture that enables models to recall relevant details without significantly increasing the amount of computation required.