Tech & Society
How Open Are Open Models?: Radboud University study ranks AI models on openness
The word “open” can mean many things with respect to AI. A new paper outlines the variations and ranks popular models for openness.
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Tech & Society
Copyright Claim Fails in GitHub Case: Judge dismisses key arguments in AI copyright lawsuit against GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI
A judge rejected key claims in a lawsuit by developers against GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI, the first decision in a series of court actions related to generative AI.
Letters
Threats to Democracy and How AI Can Help: Democracy empowers each citizen to help decide who governs.
“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others,” said Winston Churchill.
The Batch Newsletter
Hallucination Detector, Battle of the Image Generators, How Open Are Open Models?, Copyright Claim Fails Against GitHub
The Batch AI News and Insights: “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others,” said Winston Churchill.
Machine Learning Research
Efficient Subject Consistency For Stable Diffusion
Published in mid-2022, DreamBooth enables Stable Diffusion to depict variations on a given subject; say, a particular dog and the same dog with angel wings or wearing a chef’s hat.
Data Points
AI can guess what you are seeing: Plus, a new tool to speed up attention mechanisms for LLMs
A company that mines data to mine critical minerals; Doctors use chatbots to deal with insurers; A travel agent powered by AI; An LLM health coach backed by OpenAI
Data Points
Apple and Microsoft Won’t Observe OpenAI’s Board: Plus, Groq sports a speedy new web-based chatbot
AWS’s new co-code app developer; How Alibaba is using AI to expand abroad; A chatbot grounded in climate reporting; Traffic numbers for the top AI sites
Machine Learning Research
Like LoRA, But for Pretraining: GaLore, a memory-saving method for pretraining and fine-tuning LLMs
Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) reduces memory requirements when fine-tuning large language models, but it isn’t as conducive to pretraining.
Business
Amazon Onboards Adept: Amazon adds majority of Adept AI staff to boost agentic AI capabilities
Amazon hired most of the staff of agentic-AI specialist Adept AI in a move that echoes Microsoft’s absorption of Inflection in March.
Tech & Society
AI’s Path to Zero Emissions Is Cloudy: AI and data center boom challenges big tech's emissions targets
The boom in AI is jeopardizing big tech’s efforts to reach its targets for emissions of greenhouse gasses.
Tech & Society
Claude Advances the LLM Interface: Claude 3.5 Sonnet’s Artifacts feature makes it easier to build and code on-site
Claude 3.5 Sonnet lets users work on generated outputs as though they were independent files — a step forward in large language model user interfaces.
Letters
California’s Proposed AI Safety Law Puts Developers at Risk: California SB 1047 is intended to make AI safer, but its unclear requirements put developers, innovation, and open source in jeopardy.
I continue to be alarmed at the progress of proposed California regulation SB 1047 and the attack it represents on open source and more broadly on AI innovation.