Tech & Society
OpenAI Blocks China and Elsewhere: OpenAI to halt services in China and other U.S. 'nations of concern' by next week
OpenAI will stop serving users in China and other nations of concern to the U.S. government as soon as next week.
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Machine Learning Research
24 Hours on an Old Consumer GPU: Optimizing LLMs for low-resource hardware
BERT, a large language model released in 2018 and built upon the then-new transformer architecture, marked a paradigm shift in AI.
Data Points
Google’s mid-sized Gemma 2 competes with Llama 3 and other open giants: Plus, ESM3’s new model can engineer proteins’ sequence, structure, and function
Twice a week, Data Points brings you the latest AI news, tools, models, and research in brief. Today’s edition includes: Mars5, an open source voice cloning tool, a new study on the most common forms of AI misuse...
Data Points
Google Translate uses an AI assist to add over 100 new languages: Plus, Meta’s LLM Compiler brings language models to assembly code
Twice a week, Data Points brings you the latest AI news in brief. Today's edition includes: Florence-2, a small but capable family of vision models, Qualcomm’s AI Hub gives developers access to on-device tools and models...
Letters
AI is a Tool, Not a Separate Species: Should AI developers be allowed to train models freely on the contents of the web? The lawsuit by Sony, Universal, and Warner against AI music generators Suno and Udio raises difficult questions.
On Monday, a number of large music labels sued AI music makers Suno and Udio for copyright infringement. Their lawsuit echoes The New York Times’ lawsuit against OpenAI in December.
The Batch Newsletter
AI Monopolies, Ancestor Avatars, Benchmarks for Agentic Behavior, Chatbot for Minority Languages
The Batch AI News and Insights: On Monday, a number of large music labels sued AI music makers Suno and Udio for copyright infringement.
Machine Learning Research
Benchmarks for Agentic Behaviors: New LLM benchmarks for Tool Use and Planning in workplace tasks
Tool use and planning are key behaviors in agentic workflows that enable large language models (LLMs) to execute complex sequences of steps. New benchmarks measure these capabilities in common workplace tasks.
Tech & Society
Conversing With the Departed: Lifelike avatars of deceased loved ones, a new market in video generation
Advances in video generation have spawned a market for lifelike avatars of deceased loved ones.
Tech & Society
Chatbot for Minority Languages: Startup Two AI launches SUTRA, a multilingual model for South Asian markets
An AI startup that aims to crack markets in southern Asia launched a multilingual competitor to GPT-4.
Tech & Society
U.S. to Probe AI Monopoly Concerns: U.S. antitrust regulators to investigate AI giants Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI
U.S. antitrust regulators are preparing to investigate a trio of AI giants.
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Data Points
Universal Music partners with SoundLabs to clone artists’ voices: Plus, Anthropic introduces Artifacts on Claude.ai
Twice a week, Data Points brings you the top AI news in brief. This week, that includes: BigCodeBench’s new metrics for LLMs’ programming abilities, Gen-3 Alpha, a new video model from Runway, Context caching in Google’s Gemini API...