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Business

OpenAI Strengthens Ties With AMD: OpenAI’s latest multibillion-dollar chip deal would give it 6 gigawatts of computing power and up to 10 percent of AMD

OpenAI, strapped for processing power to drive a worldwide constellation of planned data centers, turned to Nvidia’s archrival AMD.

Medical professionals in clinic use copilot screens for patient data analysis, enhancing healthcare decision-making.

Data Points

Figure AI unveils its third-generation robot: Microsoft’s healthcare data partnership with Harvard

AI companies’ dominance of global venture funding. Samsung’s 7-million-parameter Tiny Recursion Model. The U.S.–UAE agreement for 500,000 Nvidia GPUs annually. IBM’s embrace of Anthropic’s Claude models for enterprise.

Four scenes show a robot problem-solving, using tools, planning with documents, and collaborating on a rocket.

The Batch Newsletter

Claude Levels Up, Qwen3 Proliferates, Big AI Diversifies Product Lines, LoRA Adapters on Tap

The Batch AI News and Insights: I’m thrilled to announce my latest course: Agentic AI! This course will get you up to speed building cutting-edge agentic workflows.

Letters

Check Out Our Course on How to Build AI Agents!: Andrew Ng teaches design patterns and best practices for building autonomous agents in a new course available exclusively from DeepLearning.AI.

I’m thrilled to announce my latest course: Agentic AI! This course will get you up to speed building cutting-edge agentic workflows.

Flowchart of Text-to-LoRA model processes task embeddings into LoRA adapters, showing weights and losses.

Machine Learning Research

LoRA Adapters On Tap: Text-to-LoRA generates task-specific LoRA adapters directly from natural language descriptions

The approach known as LoRA streamlines fine-tuning by training a small adapter that modifies a pretrained model’s weights at inference. Researchers built a model that generates such adapters directly.

Bar chart comparing performance of Qwen3 models against others in diverse tasks, highlighting Qwen3-Max.

Machine Learning Research

Qwen3 Goes Big (and Smaller): Alibaba expands Qwen3 family with a 1 trillion-parameter Max model, open-weights Qwen3-VL, and the Qwen3-Omni voice model

Alibaba rounded out the Qwen3 family with its biggest large language model to date as well as smaller models that process text, images, video, and/or audio.

Icons for files, pictures, and shopping connect through nodes to a dollar sign, illustrating AI-driven profit pathways.

Business

OpenAI, Meta Diversify AI Product Lines: OpenAI and Meta launch social video apps while ChatGPT adds Pulse and Instant Checkout

OpenAI and Meta, which have been content to offer standalone chatbots or tuck them into existing products, introduced dueling social video networks and other initiatives designed to boost revenue and engagement.

Comparison table highlighting Claude Sonnet 4.5's top scores in coding and reasoning benchmarks, featuring improved capabilities.

Machine Learning Research

Claude Levels Up: Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 4.5 and the Claude Agent SDK, and overhauls Claude Code for developers

Anthropic updated its mid-size Claude Sonnet model, making it the first member of the Claude family to reach version 4.5. It also enhanced the Claude Code agentic coding tool with long-desired features.

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Data Points

OpenAI SDK helps devs build apps in ChatGPT: Zhipu AI’s open competitor to DeepSeek-V3.2 and Sonnet 4

Google’s research preview for CodeMender. Anthropic’s Petri, an open framework for automating alignment tests. Music labels near a deal with AI companies. Nano Banana becoming officially production available.

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Data Points

DeepSeek 3.2 turns to experimental attention: AI safety bill SB 53 regulates California’s biggest companies

Mira Murati’s Tinker’s simplified approach to fine-tuning. OpenAI’s new video model and social app. IBM’s embrace of Mamba for Granite 4.0 models. Perplexity’s AI browser, now free worldwide.

Image illustrates data flow from raw satellite sources through processing to embeddings for climate tracking.

Machine Learning Research

Earth Modeled in 10-Meter Squares: Google’s AlphaEarth Foundations tracks the whole planet’s climate, land use, potential for disasters, in detail and at scale

Researchers built a model that integrates satellite imagery and other sensor readings across the entire surface of the Earth to reveal patterns of climate, land use, and other features.

Robots with lighters attend a live concert, underlining AI's role in music creation and performance.

Business

Generating Music, Paying Musicians: Sweden’s STIM built an ecosystem for training AI models on copyrighted music and compensating original artists

A Swedish organization that collects royalties on behalf of songwriters and record companies has formed a technology-legal-business ecosystem designed to allow AI developers to use music legally while compensating publishers of recordings and compositions.

Latest

OpenAI Strengthens Ties With AMD: OpenAI’s latest multibillion-dollar chip deal would give it 6 gigawatts of computing power and up to 10 percent of AMD

Figure AI unveils its third-generation robot: Microsoft’s healthcare data partnership with Harvard

Claude Levels Up, Qwen3 Proliferates, Big AI Diversifies Product Lines, LoRA Adapters on Tap

Check Out Our Course on How to Build AI Agents!: Andrew Ng teaches design patterns and best practices for building autonomous agents in a new course available exclusively from DeepLearning.AI.

LoRA Adapters On Tap: Text-to-LoRA generates task-specific LoRA adapters directly from natural language descriptions

Qwen3 Goes Big (and Smaller): Alibaba expands Qwen3 family with a 1 trillion-parameter Max model, open-weights Qwen3-VL, and the Qwen3-Omni voice model

OpenAI, Meta Diversify AI Product Lines: OpenAI and Meta launch social video apps while ChatGPT adds Pulse and Instant Checkout

Claude Levels Up: Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 4.5 and the Claude Agent SDK, and overhauls Claude Code for developers

OpenAI SDK helps devs build apps in ChatGPT: Zhipu AI’s open competitor to DeepSeek-V3.2 and Sonnet 4

DeepSeek 3.2 turns to experimental attention: AI safety bill SB 53 regulates California’s biggest companies

Earth Modeled in 10-Meter Squares: Google’s AlphaEarth Foundations tracks the whole planet’s climate, land use, potential for disasters, in detail and at scale

Generating Music, Paying Musicians: Sweden’s STIM built an ecosystem for training AI models on copyrighted music and compensating original artists