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.
Business
OpenAI is working with Oracle to build its next chunk of processing power, a $30 billion outgrowth of the partners’ $500 billion Stargate project and a sign of OpenAI’s ongoing thirst for computation.
Machine Learning Research
The mixture-of-experts approach that has boosted the performance of large language models may do the same for video generation.
Business
Nvidia and AMD, having obtained the U.S. government’s permission to resume selling AI processors in China, received a cool welcome there.
Data Points
How to manage multiple Claude Code sessions. Reddit’s standoff with the Internet Archive. A new framework for developing open computer-use agents. Using AI to kill antibiotic-resistant germs.
Data Points
Building a more interpretable robot. OpenAI’s latest gold medal programming performance. Extracting structured data from big texts. Anthropic adds learning modes to Claude Code.
Machine Learning Research
A bottleneck in fine-tuning large language models for software engineering is building a dataset that can show them how to edit code, search for subroutines, write test scripts, control a terminal, manage a file system, and so on. Researchers built a pipeline that produces such data automatically.
Business
Generated video clips are capturing eyeballs in viral videos, ad campaigns, and a Netflix show.
Tech & Society
India, which has limited funding and large numbers of languages and dialects, is redoubling its efforts to build native large language models.