Tech & Society
At meetings in Seoul, government and corporate officials from dozens of countries agreed to take action on AI safety.
Tech & Society
Sonically minded developers gained a high-profile text-to-audio generator.
Tech & Society
Apple presented its plan to imbue its phones and computers with artificial intelligence.
Data Points
This week’s top AI stories included: E.U. countries approving the AI Act, Google responding to criticism of AI answers in search, A new set of open-world vision models, A study on worldwide adoption of generative AI
Letters
The effort to protect innovation and open source continues. I believe we’re all better off if anyone can carry out basic AI research and share their innovations.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch AI News and Insights: The effort to protect innovation and open source continues. I believe we’re all better off if anyone can carry out basic AI research and share their innovations.
Machine Learning Research
A relatively small student LLM that learns to mimic a larger teacher model can perform nearly as well as the teacher while using much less computation. It can come even closer if the teacher also teaches reasoning techniques.
Tech & Society
The United States and China opened a dialogue to avert hypothetical AI catastrophes.
Tech & Society
OpenAI models were used in five disinformation campaigns, the company said.
Tech & Society
Generative AI plays a starring role in the latest Windows PCs.
Data Points
This week's top AI stories feature a new model from Mistral designed for coding, Microsoft’s updated Phi-3 family of small language models, OpenAI’s new safety and security team, and a family of models from Cohere that supports 23 global languages:
Letters
A barrier to faster progress in generative AI is evaluations (evals), particularly of custom AI applications that generate free-form text.