Data Points
Anthropic’s browser use extension preview. Automation hits entry-level workers first. Reinforcement Learning from Checklist Feedback. Authors settle copyright lawsuit over pirated books.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch AI News and Insights: Parallel agents are emerging as an important new direction for scaling up AI. AI capabilities have scaled with more training data, training-time compute, and test-time compute.
Letters
Parallel agents are emerging as an important new direction for scaling up AI. AI capabilities have scaled with more training data, training-time compute, and test-time compute.
Machine Learning Research
DINOv2 showed that a vision transformer pretrained on unlabeled images could produce embeddings that are useful for a wide variety of tasks. Now it has been updated to improve the performance of its embeddings in segmentation and other vision tasks.
Robotics
Researchers in China disguised a quadruped robot as a Tibetan antelope to help study the animals close-up.
Science
The French AI company Mistral measured the environmental impacts of its flagship large language model.
Hardware
Google’s latest smartphone sports an AI assistant that anticipates the user’s needs and presents helpful information without prompting.
Data Points
Cohere’s new reasoning mode for open-weights Command A. Hacking MCP to turn Claude into an image generator. Google’s new AI deal with the U.S. government. Meta’s partnership with image generator Midjourney.
Data Points
Alibaba’s new text and image editing features. Adobe’s tool to chat with your PDFs and other docs. Browsemaster, a new framework for agentic search. Surya, an IBM/NASA model that predicts solar weather.
Letters
On Saturday at the Buildathon [http://buildathon.ai] hosted by AI Fund and DeepLearning.AI, over 100 developers competed to build software products quickly using AI assisted coding.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch AI News and Insights: On Saturday at the Buildathon [http://buildathon.ai] hosted by AI Fund and DeepLearning.AI, over 100 developers competed to build software products quickly using AI assisted coding.
Machine Learning Research
Benchmarks can measure how well large language models apply what they’ve learned from their training data to new data, but it’s harder to measure the degree to which they simply memorized their training data. New work proposes a way to gauge memorization.