Tech & Society
Meta raised the bar for large language models with open weights and published details about how it built one that outperforms GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet by some measures.
Letters
Last week, I wrote about why working on a concrete startup or project idea — meaning a specific product envisioned in enough detail that we can build it for a specific target user
Data Points
DeepSeek’s inexpensive V2 model gets a new license, Stable Video, now in four dimensions, how Runway trained its video model, Microsoft makes Phi-3 easier to fine-tune and deploy
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch AI News and Insights: AI’s usefulness in a wide variety of applications creates many opportunities for entrepreneurship.
Machine Learning Research
Previous systems that produce a talking-head video from a photo and a spoken-word audio clip animate the lips and other parts of the face separately.
Tech & Society
Investors have been gathering AI chips to attract AI startups.
Tech & Society
European users won’t have access to Meta’s multimodal models.
Tech & Society
A slimmed-down version of Open AI’s multimodal flagship packs a low-price punch.
Letters
AI’s usefulness in a wide variety of applications creates many opportunities for entrepreneurship.
Data Points
Groq’s new tool use models, another AI safety and security industry group, Microsoft’s new research applying LLMs to spreadsheets, proposed safeguards to protect open AI models
Machine Learning Research
Large language models can produce output that’s convincing but false. Researchers proposed a way to identify such hallucinations.
Tech & Society
An arena-style contest pits the world’s best text-to-image generators against each other.