Machine Learning Research
Meta’s Segment Anything Model (SAM) image-segmentation model has evolved into an open-weights suite for generating 3D objects. SAM 3 segments images, SAM 3D turns the segments into 3D objects, and SAM 3D Body produces 3D objects of any people among the segments. You can experiment with all three.
Data Points
The new MCP spec’s updates for security and long task support. Runway’s new video generation model’s improved physics. The impact of Character.AI blocking minors from chat. Antigravity, Google’s agentic IDE that rivals Cursor and Windsurf.
Data Points
FLUX.2, a Nano Banana-class open image generator. OpenAI’s third-party web analytics security breach. Genesis Mission, a new U.S. government resource sharing program. Suno’s latest deal with music giant Warner.
Machine Learning Research
Large language models can develop character traits like cheerfulness or sycophancy during fine-tuning. Researchers developed a method to identify, monitor, and control such traits.
Business
A music-generation newcomer emerged from stealth mode with licenses to train generative AI models on music controlled by the world’s biggest recording companies.
Business
Having recently revised its agreement with longtime partner OpenAI, Microsoft pledged to invest billions of dollars in Anthropic, one of OpenAI’s top competitors.
Machine Learning Research
Google introduced Gemini 3 Pro and Nano Banana Pro, its flagship vision-language and image-generation models, and deployed them to billions of users worldwide.
Letters
Is there an AI bubble? With the massive number of dollars going into AI infrastructure such as OpenAI’s $1.4 trillion plan and Nvidia briefly reaching a $5 trillion market cap, many have asked if speculation and hype have driven the values of AI investments above sustainable values.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch AI News and Insights: Is there an AI bubble? With the massive number of dollars going into AI infrastructure such as OpenAI’s $1.4 trillion plan and Nvidia briefly reaching a $5 trillion market cap, many have asked if speculation and hype have driven the values of...
Data Points
Nano Banana Pro, Google’s updated image generator. Anthropic’s latest partnerships with Microsoft and Nvidia. Memo, a home robot trained on real-life human tasks. A new AI play modeled on legendary French playwright Molière’s work.
Data Points
GPT-5.1-Codex-Max, OpenAI’s improved long-context coding model. Music startup Klay’s reported deal with Universal, Warner, and Sony. DeepSeek R1 Slim, a trim, decensored reasoning model. NTT’s Tsuzumi 2, an efficient model optimized for Japan.
Machine Learning Research
Large language models may have learned knowledge that’s relevant to a given prompt, but they don’t always recall it consistently. Fine-tuning a model to search its parameters as though it were searching the web can help it find knowledge in its own weights.