Machine Learning Research
Muse Code Wants Your Data: Meta's Muse Spark 1.2 and Muse Code approach the intelligence frontier at a discount
Meta will cut coding bills from dollars to pennies for developers who let the company learn from their work.
Analytics DeepLearning.AI
Letters
The AI Engineering Skills Map Part 1: Andrew Ng and DeepLearning.AI Present the Essential Skills Every AI Engineer Needs to Know
I am delighted to present The AI Engineering Skills Map. AI allows us to build software very differently today than in 2022, and everyone with the skills to take advantage of this shift has numerous exciting project and job opportunities.
The Batch Newsletter
Meta’s Play for Coding Data, Google Robotics Multi-Embodiment, MiniMax’s Open Video Model (With an Asterisk)
The Batch News & Insights: I am delighted to present The AI Engineering Skills Map.
Machine Learning Research
Custom Prompts for Safer Code: A Stanford team built a pipeline to improve system prompts to build more secure code
Large language models (LLMs) can write useful code, but they often introduce security vulnerabilities.
Machine Learning Research
Fresh Data for Coding Models: Hugging Face updated The Stack, the largest crawl of public GitHub repositories
The biggest open dataset of source code went years without an update.
Machine Learning Research
Claude Weakens a Quantum Lock: Anthropic engineers used Claude Mythos to identify cryptographic weaknesses in HAWK and AES
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been testing quantum-proof replacements for today’s encryption algorithms.
Machine Learning Research
DeepSeek Pushes the Frontier Again: DeepSeek refreshed its V4 Flash model with an impressive fine-tune
DeepSeek’s updated small model overtook the company’s own flagship.
Techical insights
What Comes After Tokenmaxxing?: How to avoid getting locked in to just one AI provider
I’m glad the idea of “tokenmaxxing” — that individuals and companies should use as many tokens as possible to boost productivity — is finally dying out.
The Batch Newsletter
DeepSeek-V4-Flash Outshines Pro, The Biggest GitHub Crawl Yet, Engineering System Prompts for Safer Code
The Batch News & Insights: I’m glad the idea of “tokenmaxxing” — that individuals and companies should use as many tokens as possible to boost productivity — is finally dying out.
Machine Learning Research
A Full Accounting of Models’ GPU Use: Researchers detail the energy and water needed to train a family of open weight models
Assessments of the environmental impact of large language models typically focus on their final training runs, but there’s a lot more to building AI systems.
Hardware
Anthropic, OpenAI Fight for Compute: Anthropic and OpenAI both spend big to make deals for data center sites and hardware
Data center buildout plans reached a new order of magnitude as new partnerships form and old ones fade away in the search for capacity to train and deliver AI.
Machine Learning Research
OpenAI Models Hack Hugging Face: Inside the accidental cyberattack that compromised Hugging Face's systems
To measure how good its models were at hacking, OpenAI reduced guardrails and ran them against a benchmark’s problem set.