Generative AI

AI Agents for AI Research: Agentic workflow generates novel scientific research papers

While some observers argue that large language models can’t produce truly original output, new work prompted them to generate novel scientific research.

Letters

Regulate AI Applications, Not Technology: Why the DEFIANCE Act and FTC ban on fake product reviews take the right approach to regulating AI.

I’m encouraged at the progress of the U.S. government at moving to stem harmful AI applications.

Data Points

OpenAI’s unreleased ChatGPT detector: Plus, DeepMind’s new robot plays table tennis

ByteDance’s China-only video app, U.K. watchdog probes Anthropic’s deals, New Writer models for medicine and finance, SambaNova’s speedy inference platform

Data Points

xAI releases new Grok-2 LLM to paid users of X: Plus, Google’s Imagen 3 rivals top text-to-image models

A new automated paper-writing system from Sakana AI, GitHub’s Autofix uses GPT-4 to find and plug security holes, Google’s new AI voice assistant...

Machine Learning Research

Machine Translation Goes Agentic: TransAgents, a system that boosts literary translation with a multi-agent workflow

Literary works are challenging to translate. Their relative length, cultural nuances, idiomatic expressions...

Business

AI Leadership Makes for a Difficult Balance Sheet: OpenAI faces financial growing pains, spending double its revenue

OpenAI may be spending roughly twice as much money as it’s bringing in, a sign of the financial pressures of blazing the trail in commercial applications of AI.

Generative AI

Out of the Black Forest: Black Forest Labs’ Flux.1 outperforms top text-to-image models

A new company with deep roots in generative AI made an eye-catching debut.

Business

Higher Performance, Lower Prices: AI model prices drop as competition heats up

Prices for access to large language models are falling as providers exploit new efficiencies and compete for new customers.

Letters

Thailand’s AI Push: How countries that aren’t AI hotspots will benefit from AI advances

When entrepreneurs build a startup, it is often their speed and momentum that gives them a shot at competing with the tech behemoths. This is true of countries as well.

The Batch Newsletter

LLM Price War, Black Forest’s Open Image Generator, The High Cost of AI Leadership, Machine Translation Goes Agentic

The Batch AI News and Insights | When entrepreneurs build a startup, it is often their speed and momentum that gives them a shot at competing with the tech behemoths.

Data Points

GPT-4o drops prices, supports JSON schemas: Plus, Figure’s new robot features sophisticated hands

Nvidia’s new Blackwell chips face months-long delays, Mistral adds fine-tuning and other custom tools, Langchain Studio IDE is built to build agents, Character.AI open-sources its in-house prompt developer

Business

Google Gets Character.AI Co-Founders: Google acquires Character.AI talent and tech in strategic move

Character.AI followed an emerging pattern for ambitious AI startups, trading its leadership to a tech giant in exchange for funds and a strategic makeover.