As amazing as LLMs are, improving their knowledge today involves a more piecemeal process than is widely appreciated.
The Batch AI News and Insights: As amazing as LLMs are, improving their knowledge today involves a more piecemeal process than is widely appreciated.
Enabling a pretrained large language model to process a data type other than text (say, images), possibly in a specialized domain (say, radiology), typically requires thousands to millions of examples that pair the other data (perhaps x-rays) with text.
OpenAI launched GPT-5.2 only weeks after its CEO Sam Altman reportedly issued a “code red” alarm in response to Google's Gemini 3.
Disney, the entertainment conglomerate that owns Marvel, Pixar, Lucasfilm and its own animated classics from 101 Dalmatians to Zootopia, licensed OpenAI to use its characters in generated videos.
Runway’s GWM-1 family of video-generation models respond to user input in real time while producing scenes that remain consistent regardless of the camera’s position.
Nvidia’s Nemotron 3 family of models, including a 30B standout. Microsoft’s RL-powered Agent Lightning. Google’s new Flash voice models and translation agents. “Slop,” 2025’s word of the year.
Mistral’s Devstral 2’s cost-effective coding. GLM-4.6V’s addition of native function calling to vision-language reasoning. Cursor 2.2’s debug and web developer modes. A new executive order preempting local AI regulations in the U.S.
If you have not yet built an agentic workflow, I encourage you to try doing so, using the simple recipe I’ll share here!
The Batch AI News and Insights: If you have not yet built an agentic workflow, I encourage you to try doing so, using the simple recipe I’ll share here!
Large language models often fail at puzzles like Sudoku, for which a solution includes multiple elements and a single mistake invalidates all of them. Researchers showed that a tiny network, by repeatedly refining its solution, can solve this sort of puzzle well.
Amazon raised the competitive profile of its foundation models and added services for custom model training and an agent platform for browser automation.
Science
President Trump launched a United States effort to use AI to speed up scientific breakthroughs.
Machine Learning Research
Claude Opus 4.5, the latest version of Anthropic’s flagship model, extends the earlier version’s strengths in coding, computer use, and agentic workflows while generating fewer tokens.
Data Points
An executive order that would challenge state AI regulations in the U.S. An 8B parameter open model that shines at coding and math tasks. Publishers’ copyright and trademark lawsuits against Perplexity. Gemini 3 Pro’s ability to visually recognize handwriting from any period.
Data Points
Nvidia’s open VLA reasoning model for self-driving cars. Hugging Face’s Claude skills pack that fine-tunes language models. LangChain’s LangSmith no-code, all-chat agent builder. MCP Blockly, a project for students to build their own MCP servers.
Letters
Separate reports by the publicity firm Edelman and Pew Research show that Americans, and more broadly large parts of Europe and the western world, do not trust AI and are not excited about it.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch AI News and Insights: Separate reports by the publicity firm Edelman and Pew Research show that Americans, and more broadly large parts of Europe and the western world, do not trust AI and are not excited about it.
Machine Learning Research
In factories, where teams of robotic arms work in tight spaces, their motions are programmed by hand to keep them from interfering with one another. Researchers automated this programming using graph neural networks trained via reinforcement learning.
Machine Learning Research
Baidu debuted two models: a lightweight, open-weights, vision-language model and a giant, proprietary, multimodal model built to take on U.S. competitors.
Machine Learning Research
Models that generate 3D spaces typically generate them as users move through them without generating a persistent world to be explored later. A new model produces 3D worlds that can be exported and modified.
Machine Learning Research
Meta’s Segment Anything Model (SAM) image-segmentation model has evolved into an open-weights suite for generating 3D objects. SAM 3 segments images, SAM 3D turns the segments into 3D objects, and SAM 3D Body produces 3D objects of any people among the segments. You can experiment with all three.
Data Points
The new MCP spec’s updates for security and long task support. Runway’s new video generation model’s improved physics. The impact of Character.AI blocking minors from chat. Antigravity, Google’s agentic IDE that rivals Cursor and Windsurf.
Data Points
FLUX.2, a Nano Banana-class open image generator. OpenAI’s third-party web analytics security breach. Genesis Mission, a new U.S. government resource sharing program. Suno’s latest deal with music giant Warner.