Letters
When to Fine-Tune — and When Not To: Many teams that fine-tune their models would be better off prompting or using agentic workflows. Here's how to decide.
Fine-tuning small language models has been gaining traction over the past half year.
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The Batch Newsletter
Compact Vision-Language with Open Weights, Faster Learning, Diffusion in Few Steps, LLMs Aid Tutors
The Batch AI News and Insights: Fine-tuning small language models has been gaining traction over the past half year.
Data Points
Building a model for vision and speech: How Cloudflare thwarts unauthorized AI crawlers… by using AI
Nvidia’s Nemotron adds reasoning to Llama models. Does ChatGPT make frequent users more lonely? OpenAI’s o1-pro costs a pretty penny. Mistral Small 3.1 gives Gemma 3 27B some competition.
Data Points
This Aardvark predicts the weather: GPT-4o meets Whisper; OpenAI’s new models
Nvidia gives Project DIGITS a new name. AI models compete to build Minecraft items. Claude chatbot now includes search. A Moore’s law-like regularity for AI agents.
The Batch Newsletter
Inside Google’s Co-Scientist, Copyright Office Weighs Generated Works, Multilingual (and Good at All of Them), Diffusion for Materials Design
The Batch AI News and Insights: Last Friday on Pi Day, we held AI Dev 25, a new conference for AI Developers.
Letters
Lessons From Our First AI Dev Conference: How our learners began building their way to AI in everything at AI Dev 25 Tags: Letters, DeepLearning.AI News, Learning & Education
Last Friday on Pi Day, we held AI Dev 25, a new conference for AI Developers.
Science
Designer Materials: MatterGen, a diffusion model that designs new materials with specified properties
Materials that have specific properties are essential to progress in critical technologies like solar cells and batteries. A machine learning model designs new materials to order.
Business
Some AI-Generated Works Are Copyrightable: U.S. Copyright Office says that no new laws are needed for AI-generated works
The United States Copyright Office determined that existing laws are sufficient to decide whether a given AI-generated work is protected by copyright, making additional legislation unnecessary.
Machine Learning Research
Science Research Proposals Made to Order: AI Co-Scientist, an agent that generates research hypotheses, aiding drug discovery
An AI agent synthesizes novel scientific research hypotheses. It's already making an impact in biomedicine.
Machine Learning Research
Equally Fluent in Many Languages: Cohere’s Aya Vision beats multilingual rivals in text & image understanding
Multilingual AI models often suffer uneven performance across languages, especially in multimodal tasks. A pair of lean models counters this trend with consistent understanding of text and images across major languages.
Data Points
ERNIE checks competitors with low prices: AI2’s OLMo2 32B may be the top fully open model
Google’s two new Gemini vision-language-action robotics models. Cohere’s Command A, another lightweight LMM. New China regulations require mandatory labels for AI content. Monitoring reasoning models for reward hacking or unwanted behavior.
Data Points
AI giants’ U.S. policy proposals: Gemma 3 beats bigger open weight rivals
OpenAI’s new SDK and APIs for agentic workflows. Olympic Coder, two powerful open coding models. Alibaba applies RL to emotion detection. GPT-4.5 and Claude Sonnet 3.7 top a new agent leaderboard.