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Diagram of Modal Context Protocol showing MCP client-server architecture, APIs, and local and remote data sources.

Business

Open Standard for Tool Use and Data Access Gains Momentum: OpenAI adopts Model Context Protocol to boost LLM tool integration

OpenAI embraced Model Context Protocol, providing powerful support for an open standard that connects large language models to tools and data.

AI benchmark comparison chart showing Gemini 2.5 Pro, GPT-4.5, Claude, Grok, and others across science, math, code, and reasoning.

Machine Learning Research

Google Unveils Gemini 2.5: Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental outperforms top AI models

Google’s new flagship model raised the state of the art in a variety of subjective and objective tests.

Diverse group of college students walking and studying on a university campus lawn with a historic brick building in the background.

Data Points

OpenAI unveils new model suite for developers: Meta’s crawlers return to Europe

New vibe coding tools for Gemini. ChatGPT can remember all your conversations. Google’s new TPU is built for agents, inference. How college students use chatbots.

Courtroom scene with teams analyzing neural networks, symbolizing AI ethics and legal implications.

Data Points

Open-source DeepCoder matches top models: ML researchers accept an AI-written workshop paper

Google’s A2A protocol helps agents work together. Amazon debuts unified speech-to-speech model. Claude’s new subscription plan for power users. Elon Musk’s battle with OpenAI takes a new turn.

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Letters

The Impact of U.S. Tariffs on AI: Broad tariffs will create challenges for AI and beyond, but I see a few silver linings. Here’s what’s in store.

I am so sorry that the U.S. is letting down our friends and allies.

The Batch Newsletter

Inside the Mind of Claude, Llama 4’s Mixture of Vision-Language Experts, More Open Multimodal Models, Neural Net for Tabular Data

The Batch AI News and Insights: I am so sorry that the U.S. is letting down our friends and allies.

TabPFN neural network diagram showing synthetic training, prediction on real-world tabular data, and attention layers.

Machine Learning Research

Better Than Trees for Tabular Data: Transformers can outperform decision trees at predicting unlabeled spreadsheet cells

If you have a collection of variables that represent, say, a cancer patient and you want to classify the patient’s illness as likely cancer or not, algorithms based on decision trees, such as gradient-boosted trees, typically perform better than neural networks.

Architecture of Qwen2.5-Omni showing multimodal processing with vision and audio encoders, thinker, talker, and decoder.

Machine Learning Research

Better Multimodal Performance With Open Weights: Qwen2.5-Omni 7B raises the bar for small multimodal models

Alibaba’s latest open-weights system raises the bar for multimodal tasks in a relatively small model.

Llama 4 Behemoth benchmark chart comparing coding, reasoning, and multilingual scores with Claude, Gemini, and GPT-4.5.

Machine Learning Research

Llama’s Mixture of Vision-Language Experts: Meta releases Llama 4 models, claims edge over AI competitors

Meta updated its popular open-weights models, claiming performance superior to closed competitors in three size classes.

Diagram comparing original transformer model with a replacement model using token-level attention and neuron-level outputs.

Machine Learning Research

Ordinary LLMs Implicitly Take Reasoning Steps: Anthropic experiment finds Claude shows signs of unprompted reasoning

Even without explicit training in reasoning, large language models “think” in ways that may be more deliberate than previously understood.

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Data Points

Meta’s got a brand new herd: Gemini 2.5 Pro gets a price tag

Microsoft personalizes its multitasking Copilot. Midjourney overhauls its leading image model. An early vibe coding entrant reenters a crowded field. A cybersecurity-optimized version of Gemini.

Classroom with students using laptops and a large server rack in the front of the room.

Data Points

OpenAI promises a more open model: Runway seeks to stabilize scenes in AI video

Amazon gets into browser use with Nova Act. Claude goes back to school with program for higher ed. Google becomes a harder place for AI researchers to publish. Evaluating models’ ability to replicate cutting-edge AI research.

Latest

Open Standard for Tool Use and Data Access Gains Momentum: OpenAI adopts Model Context Protocol to boost LLM tool integration

Google Unveils Gemini 2.5: Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental outperforms top AI models

OpenAI unveils new model suite for developers: Meta’s crawlers return to Europe

Open-source DeepCoder matches top models: ML researchers accept an AI-written workshop paper

The Impact of U.S. Tariffs on AI: Broad tariffs will create challenges for AI and beyond, but I see a few silver linings. Here’s what’s in store.

Inside the Mind of Claude, Llama 4’s Mixture of Vision-Language Experts, More Open Multimodal Models, Neural Net for Tabular Data

Better Than Trees for Tabular Data: Transformers can outperform decision trees at predicting unlabeled spreadsheet cells

Better Multimodal Performance With Open Weights: Qwen2.5-Omni 7B raises the bar for small multimodal models

Llama’s Mixture of Vision-Language Experts: Meta releases Llama 4 models, claims edge over AI competitors

Ordinary LLMs Implicitly Take Reasoning Steps: Anthropic experiment finds Claude shows signs of unprompted reasoning

Meta’s got a brand new herd: Gemini 2.5 Pro gets a price tag

OpenAI promises a more open model: Runway seeks to stabilize scenes in AI video