Business
AI Video Goes Mainstream: Meta, Google, and other giants slice up text-to-video
Generated video clips are capturing eyeballs in viral videos, ad campaigns, and a Netflix show.
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Tech & Society
India Pushes to Build Indigenous AI: India launches GPU network and talent programs to boost local LLMs
India, which has limited funding and large numbers of languages and dialects, is redoubling its efforts to build native large language models.
Machine Learning Research
GPT-5 Takeoff Encounters Turbulence: OpenAI's new model hits turbulence with cost, performance, and API complaints
OpenAI launched GPT-5, the highly anticipated successor to its groundbreaking series of large language models, but glitches in the rollout left many early users disappointed and frustrated.
Letters
AI Transformation Comes to Universities: Exeter University groups computer science with business and environmental science, creating synergies that span AI, the economy, and the natural environment.
Just as many businesses are transforming to become more capable by using AI, universities are too.
The Batch Newsletter
GPT-5’s Rough Takeoff, AI Video Blockbusters, India’s Homegrown LLMs, Synthetic Data Generation
The Batch AI News and Insights: Just as many businesses are transforming to become more capable by using AI, universities are too.
Data Points
GPT-4o is back in ChatGPT: Hugging Face’s take on AI spreadsheets
Kaggle’s new Game Arena model leaderboard. Nvidia’s latest models for robotics simulations. Chipmakers’ unusual revenue deal with the U.S. government. GitHub’s integration into Microsoft’s AI division.
Data Points
OpenAI’s long-awaited GPT-5 has arrived: Claude’s Opus model gets an update
Genie 3, Google’s new world model for gaming and robotics. Eleven Music, the voice startup’s entry into music generation. Cogito V2 Preview, four impressive open-weights models. Jules, Google’s coding assistant, now out of beta.
The Batch Newsletter
Open Agentic LLMs Proliferate, Robot Removes Gallbladders, Reasoning Models Boost Emissions, OpenAI Re-Opens
The Batch AI News and Insights: Recently Meta made headlines with unprecedented, massive compensation packages for AI model builders exceeding $100M (sometimes spread over multiple years).
Letters
Why Meta Is Paying AI Engineers $100M: Meta’s massive compensation packages make sense considering the cost and potential return of delivering cutting-edge AI.
Recently Meta made headlines with unprecedented, massive compensation packages for AI model builders exceeding $100M (sometimes spread over multiple years).
Machine Learning Research
Robot Surgeon Cuts and Clips: Doctors at Stanford, Johns Hopkins, and Optosurgical operate on animal organs without human intervention
An autonomous robot performed intricate surgical operations without human intervention.
Machine Learning Research
GLM-4.5, an Open, Agentic Contender: Zhipu AI (Z.ai) releases open-weights GLM-4.5 models that perform comparably to the latest from Claude and DeepSeek
The race is on to develop large language models that can drive agentic interactions. Following the one-two punch of Moonshot’s Kimi K2 and Alibaba’s Qwen3-235B-A22B update, China’s Z.ai aims to one-up the competition.
Science
Reasoning Boosts Carbon Emissions: Researchers confirm reasoning models that generate more tokens have a bigger environmental footprint
In the era of reasoning models, delivering better answers to questions has an environmental cost. A new study quantifies the impact.