Machine Learning Research
Better Images Through Reasoning: HunyuanImage-3.0 uses reinforcement learning and thinking tokens to better understand prompts
A new image generator reasons over prompts to produce outstanding pictures.
Analytics DeepLearning.AI
Tech & Society
Toward Safer (and Sexier) Chatbots: Inside Character AI and OpenAI’s policy changes to protect younger and vulnerable Users
Chatbot providers, facing criticism for engaging troubled users in conversations that deepen their distress, are updating their services to provide wholesome interactions to younger users while allowing adults to pursue erotic conversations.
Data Points
Meta AI now recognizes 1600 languages: Amazon and Perplexity spar over browser agents
Kimi K2 Thinking, the new top open model. Deep Research’s expansion to personal documents. Terminal-Bench makers’ new agentic benchmark. TSMC’s slowing revenue growth.
Data Points
Training power laws translate to robotics: Amazon builds forecasting model to predict multiple scenarios
Stability AI’s limited wins in Getty copyright suit. Kosmos’s new generalist scientific research agent. German Commons, a big open dataset for training AI models. Google’s experiments putting satellites with AI chips in space.
Letters
Tear Down Data Silos!: Many software-as-a-service vendors aim to hold their customers' data in silos. Their customers would do well to open the silos so AI agents can use the data.
AI agents are getting better at looking at different types of data in businesses to spot patterns and create value. This is making data silos increasingly painful.
The Batch Newsletter
OpenAI Reorgs For Profit, MiniMax-M2 Leads Open Coding, Universal Music Group Embraces AI, LLMs Go Private
The Batch AI News and Insights: AI agents are getting better at looking at different types of data in businesses to spot patterns and create value. This is making data silos increasingly painful.
Machine Learning Research
Masking Private Data in Training Sets: Google researchers released VaultGemma, an open-weights model redacting personal information
Large language models often memorize details in their training data, including private information that may appear only once, like a person’s name, address, or phone number. Researchers built the first open-weights language model that’s guaranteed not to remember such facts.
Business
AI Music With Major-Label Support: Universal Music Group and music generator Udio struck a deal to settle a lawsuit and build a new platform to remix copyrighted music
Music-generation service Udio will build an AI streaming platform in collaboration with the world’s biggest record label.
Machine Learning Research
Open-Weights Coding Leader: MiniMax-M2’s lightweight footprint and low costs belie that its top performance
An open-weights model from Shanghai-based MiniMax challenges top proprietary models on key benchmarks for coding and agentic tasks.
Business
OpenAI Reorganizes For Profit: ChatGPT’s maker completed restructuring, freeing it to go public, make deals with new partners
OpenAI completed its transition from nonprofit to for-profit in a feat of legal engineering that took an army of lawyers, investment bankers, and two state attorneys general 18 months to negotiate.
Data Points
OpenAI security agent finds and plugs holes: Cognition’s SWE-1.5 model brings more speed for coding agents
Why Gemma’s been pulled from Google’s AI Studio. How Minimax built M2 for better coding performance. A new technique for efficiently training smaller models. arXiv’s new requirements for computer science submissions.
Data Points
Cursor introduces a new model built for agents: Claude models sometimes know they’ve been tampered with
GitHub Copilot’s new agentic tools. OpenAI’s new open classification policy model. IBM’s small but powerful Granite Nano models. The state of generative media. A brand-new way to learn from DeepLearning.AI.