Tech & Society
Coding Assistance Start to Finish: GitHub previews Copilot Workspace for end-to-end software development
GitHub Copilot’s latest features are designed to help manage software development from plan to pull request.
Analytics DeepLearning.AI
Letters
Beware Bad Arguments Against Open Source: Big companies are lobbying governments to limit open source AI. Their shifting arguments betray their self-serving motivations.
Inexpensive token generation and agentic workflows for large language models (LLMs) open up intriguing new possibilities for training LLMs on synthetic data...
The Batch Newsletter
OpenAI Licenses News Archives, Generative Coding From Plan to Pull Request, Recognizing Landmines, Streamlined Inference
The Batch AI News and Insights: Last week, I spoke about AI and regulation at the U.S. Capitol at an event that was attended by legislative and business leaders. I’m encouraged by the progress the open source community has made fending off regulations that would have stifled innovation.
Letters
Building Models That Learn From Themselves: AI developers are hungry for more high-quality training data. The combination of agentic workflows and inexpensive token generation could supply it.
Inexpensive token generation and agentic workflows for large language models (LLMs) open up intriguing new possibilities for training LLMs on synthetic data. Pretraining an LLM
The Batch Newsletter
Apple’s Tiny LLMs, Amazon Rethinks Cashier-Free Stores, Predicting Scientific Discoveries
The Batch AI News and Insights: Inexpensive token generation and agentic workflows for large language models (LLMs) open up intriguing new possibilities for training LLMs on synthetic data. Pretraining...
Data Points
Adobe makes AI edits easier, HuggingFace’s FineWeb dataset, and a new AI safety board in the U.S.: Plus, an AI gene editor that may someday rival CRISPR
This week's top AI news and research stories featured Apple's new family of open large language models, Stanford’s seventh “AI Index Report," Amazon's removal of its AI-driven checkout service, and an AI method to predict scientific discoveries. But first...
Machine Learning Research
Predicting Scientific Discoveries: AI predicts scientific breakthroughs using social graphs
A new AI method directs scientists toward promising avenues of inquiry.
Tech & Society
Amazon Rethinks Cashier-Free Stores: Amazon scales back its AI-powered "Just Walk Out" checkout service
Amazon withdrew Just Walk Out, an AI-driven checkout service, from most of its Amazon Fresh grocery stores...
Tech & Society
AI Trends in Depth: Stanford’s AI Index Report shows the state of AI in 2024
More expensive models, superhuman performance, growing impacts on society — an extensive report takes stock of developments in machine learning over the past year.
Tech & Society
Think D̶i̶f̶f̶e̶r̶e̶n̶t̶ Small: Apple releases OpenELM, a family of smaller large language models.
Apple is thinking small — very small — with a new family of open large language models.
Data Points
Meta’s Llama 3-powered AI assistant, Infini-Attention, and a new all-electric Atlas robot: Plus, AI pilots win a simulated dogfight
This week's top AI news and research stories featured a new breed of audio generator, benchmarks that rank large language models’ performance of tasks associated with taxes
Letters
Why We Need More Compute for Inference: Today, large language models produce output primarily for humans. But agentic workflows produce lots of output for the models themselves — and that will require much more compute for AI inference.
Much has been said about many companies’ desire for more compute (as well as data) to train larger foundation models.