Business
Agents Open the Wallet: Stripe builds ecommerce agent toolkit for AI to securely spend money
One of the world’s biggest payment processors is enabling large language models to spend real money.
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Data Points
OpenAI considers ads: Cohere’s new search model
U.S. shuts down more chips and tech to China. Claude’s Google Docs integration. Adobe’s MultiFoley generates sound for video. Canadian media companies sue OpenAI.
Data Points
Qwen’s QwQ-32B-Preview packs a big punch: Anthropic’s MCP, an open-source data protocol for agents
Jina updates CLIP embedding model. OLMo2 delivers state-of-the-art performance for smaller open models. Nvidia’s Fugatto produces a wide range of sounds. U.S. antitrust regulator takes a hard look at Microsoft.
Letters
Building a Better Future For All: Many people need help, and technology is the best way to help people at scale. Let’s get to work.
Happy Thanksgiving! In the United States, this is a week when many reflect on their blessings and give thanks.
The Batch Newsletter
DeepSeek Takes On OpenAI, Robots Fold Laundry, Amazon and Anthropic Expand Partnership, More Efficient Object Detection
The Batch AI News and Insights: DeepSeek Takes On OpenAI, Robots Fold Laundry, Amazon and Anthropic Expand Partnership, More Efficient Object Detection.
Hardware
Object Detection for Small Devices: Grounding DINO 1.5, an edge device model built for faster, smarter object detection
An open source model is designed to perform sophisticated object detection on edge devices like phones, cars, medical equipment, and smart doorbells.
Business
AI Power Couple Recommits: Amazon deepens Anthropic partnership with $4 billion investment
Amazon and Anthropic expanded their partnership, potentially strengthening Amazon Web Services’ AI infrastructure and lengthening the high-flying startup’s runway.
Hardware
Household Help: π0, a machine learning system for household robotics
A new generation of robots can handle some household chores with unusual skill.
Machine Learning Research
Reasoning Revealed: DeepSeek-R1, a transparent challenger to OpenAI o1
An up-and-coming Hangzhou AI lab unveiled a model that implements run-time reasoning similar to OpenAI o1 and delivers competitive performance. Unlike o1, it displays its reasoning steps.
Data Points
Cobot’s Proxie robot tackles warehouse tasks: VBench++, a new benchmark suite for AI video
Anthropic and Amazon strengthen their ties. Windsurf blends copilots with agents in one IDE. Mistral introduces Pixtral Large to its APIs and chat platform. H’s first product launch is a business agent.
Data Points
DeepSeek’s R1 seeks to match OpenAI’s o1: Microsoft will train future model on big publisher’s books
Flux’s new image tools compete with Adobe and other photo apps. Qwen speeds up its 2.5 model while boosting context window. Rabbit launches Teach Mode in beta for its R1 devices. Banks embrace third-party AI, but want to control their data.
Letters
AI Is Part of Your Online Audience: Some webpages are written not for humans but for large language models to read. Developers can benefit by keeping the LLM audience in mind.
A small number of people are posting text online that’s intended for direct consumption not by humans, but by LLMs (large language models).