Tech & Society
Context Is Everything: Gemini 1.5 Pro, a leap in multimodal AI amid controversy over v1.0
An update of Google’s flagship multimodal model keeps track of colossal inputs, while an earlier version generated some questionable outputs.
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Data Points
The latest in AI from Feb. 22 to Feb. 28, 2024
This week's top AI news and research stories featured Google's troubled Gemini launch, OpenAI's next act, Groq's blazing inference speed, and a method for faster network pruning. But first:
Letters
The Python Package Problem: Python packages can give your software superpowers, but managing them is a barrier to AI development.
I think the complexity of Python package management holds down AI application development more than is widely appreciated. AI faces multiple bottlenecks — we need more GPUs, better algorithms, cleaner data in large quantities.
The Batch Newsletter
Google's Troubled Gemini Launch, OpenAI's Next Act, Groq's Blazing Inference Speed, Faster Network Pruning
The Batch AI News and Insights: I think the complexity of Python package management holds down AI application development more than is widely appreciated. AI faces multiple bottlenecks — we need more GPUs, better algorithms, cleaner data in large quantities.
Machine Learning Research
Memory-Efficient Optimizer: A method to reduce memory needs when fine-tuning AI models
Researchers devised a way to reduce memory requirements when fine-tuning large language models. Kai Lv and colleagues at Fudan University proposed low memory optimization (LOMO), a modification of stochastic gradient descent that stores less data than other optimizers during fine-tuning.
Tech & Society
Gymnastics Judge’s Helper: AI system measures performances in Olympic-level gymnastics competitions.
Judges in competitive gymnastics are using an AI system to double-check their decisions.
Hardware
Competition Heats Up in AI Chips: Huawei rises as key AI chip supplier amid U.S. export bans.
Huawei is emerging as an important supplier of AI chips. Amid a U.S. ban on exports of advanced chips to China, demand for Huawei’s AI chips is so intense that the company is limiting production of the chip that powers one of its most popular smartphones so it can serve the AI market.
Tech & Society
Generated Video Gets Real(er): OpenAI’s Sora, a new player in text-to-video generation
OpenAI’s new video generator raises the bar for detail and realism in generated videos — but the company released few details about how it built the system.
Letters
Three Themes for AI Entrepreneurs: Starting an AI company? Three keys to AI entrepreneurship emerged at AI Fund’s annual co-founder and CEO summit.
Earlier this month, my team AI Fund held its annual co-founder and CEO summit, where many of our collaborators gathered in California for two days to discuss how to build AI companies.
Data Points
The latest in AI from Feb. 15 to Feb. 21, 2024
This week's top AI news and research stories featured OpenAI's Sora, Huawei's AI chips, an AI system to double-check judges' decisions in competitive gymnastics, and Würstchen, and a way to reduce memory requirements when fine-tuning large language models. But first:
The Batch Newsletter
Generated Video Gets Real(er), Nvidia Competitor Emerges, Neural Nets for Gymnastics, Efficient Optimizer
The Batch AI News and Insights: Earlier this month, my team AI Fund held its annual co-founder and CEO summit, where many of our collaborators gathered in California for two days to discuss how to build AI companies.
Letters
How to Think About the Privacy of Cloud-Based AI: How private is your data on cloud-based AI platforms? Here's a framework for evaluating risks.
The rise of cloud-hosted AI software has brought much discussion about the privacy implications of using it. But I find that users, including both consumers and developers building on such software