Machine Learning Research
Albert Gu: More learning, less data
Building a foundation model takes tremendous amounts of data. In the coming year, I hope we’ll enable models to learn more from less data.
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Machine Learning Research
Joseph Gonzalez: General intelligence
In 2025, I expect progress in training foundation models to slow down as we hit scaling limits and inference costs continue to rise.
Tech & Society
David Ding: Generated video with music, sound effects, and dialogue
Last year, we saw an explosion of models that generate either video or audio outputs in high quality. In the coming year, I look forward to models that produce video clips complete with audio soundtracks including speech, music, and sound effects.
Tech & Society
Hanno Basse: Generative AI for artists
Stability AI’s aim is to liberate artists of all trades from the repetitive, mechanical aspects of their work and help them spend the majority of their time on the creative side. So our highest hope for next year is that generative AI will help people to be more creative and productive.
Data Points
New Year’s resolutions for (and by) AI in 2025: A special New Year’s Eve issue of Data Points
Want a sneak peek at AI’s resolutions for 2025? We’ve got you covered: Get less expensive. Hallucinate less often. Perform better at math. Clean up after myself. Use less energy. Save as many lives as I can.
Data Points
DeepSeek-V3 is the new best open model: All about OpenAI’s upcoming o-series models
Genesis uses generative AI in a physics-based robotics/world platform. Qwen presents QVQ, an open language/vision model. ModernBERT updates BERT as a classic classifier/retrieval workhorse. CodeLLM switches between models depending on your language and query.
Letters
Think Technology is Moving Fast? Look at Applications!: AI technology progressed rapidly in 2024, but applications advanced even more quickly. Good regulation can make for even faster progress in 2025.
Is AI progressing rapidly? Yes! But while the progress of underlying AI technology has indeed sped up over the past 2 years, the fastest acceleration is in applications.
The Batch Newsletter
Top AI Stories of 2024! Agents Rise, Prices Fall, Models Shrink, Video Takes Off, Acquisitions Morph
The Batch AI News and Insights: Is AI progressing rapidly? Yes! But while the progress of underlying AI technology has indeed sped up over the past 2 years, the fastest acceleration is in applications.
Business
Alternatives to Acquisitions: Tech giants forge strategic partnerships to secure talent and technology without acquisitions
Big AI companies found creative ways to gain cutting-edge technology and talent without buying startups.
Machine Learning Research
Smaller Is Beautiful: Compact AI models redefine efficiency, bringing advanced capabilities to everyday devices
For years, the best AI models got bigger and bigger. But in 2024, some popular large language models were small enough to run on a smartphone.
Machine Learning Research
Generative Video Takes Off: Generative video models revolutionize content creation with stunning realism
Video generation exploded in an abundance of powerful models.
Business
Prices Tumble: AI price wars drive costs down as competition heats up
Fierce competition among model makers and cloud providers drove down the price of access to state-of-the-art models.