Tech & Society
Amazon Rethinks Cashier-Free Stores: Amazon scales back its AI-powered "Just Walk Out" checkout service
Amazon withdrew Just Walk Out, an AI-driven checkout service, from most of its Amazon Fresh grocery stores...
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Tech & Society
AI Trends in Depth: Stanford’s AI Index Report shows the state of AI in 2024
More expensive models, superhuman performance, growing impacts on society — an extensive report takes stock of developments in machine learning over the past year.
Tech & Society
Think D̶i̶f̶f̶e̶r̶e̶n̶t̶ Small: Apple releases OpenELM, a family of smaller large language models.
Apple is thinking small — very small — with a new family of open large language models.
Data Points
Meta’s Llama 3-powered AI assistant, Infini-Attention, and a new all-electric Atlas robot: Plus, AI pilots win a simulated dogfight
This week's top AI news and research stories featured a new breed of audio generator, benchmarks that rank large language models’ performance of tasks associated with taxes
Letters
Why We Need More Compute for Inference: Today, large language models produce output primarily for humans. But agentic workflows produce lots of output for the models themselves — and that will require much more compute for AI inference.
Much has been said about many companies’ desire for more compute (as well as data) to train larger foundation models.
The Batch Newsletter
Pop Song Generators, 3D Mesh Generators, Real-World Benchmarks, AI for Manufacturing
The Batch AI News and Insights: Much has been said about many companies’ desire for more compute (as well as data) to train larger foundation models.
Machine Learning Research
A 3D Mesh From One 2D Image: The combination of video diffusion and Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) can produce a 3D mesh from a single image
Video diffusion provides a new basis for generating 3D models.
Business
AI Progress Report, Manufacturing: Manufacturers embrace AI despite talent and data challenges
Manufacturers are embracing AI even as they struggle to find the talent and data required.
Tech & Society
Benchmarks for Industry: Vals AI evaluates large language models on industry-specific tasks.
How well do large language models respond to professional-level queries in various industry domains? A new company aims to find out.
Tech & Society
Songs Made to Order: Text-to-music services evolve with Udio and Suno’s customized song creations.
A new breed of audio generator produces synthetic performances of songs in a variety of popular styles.
Machine Learning Research
Tuning LLMs for Better RAG: Meta’s RA-DIT boosts language model output by optimizing text retrieval
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enables large language models to generate better output by retrieving documents that are relevant to a user’s prompt. Fine-tuning further improves RAG performance.
Tech & Society
GPT Store Shows Lax Moderation: A report exposes policy violations in OpenAI’s GPT Store.
OpenAI has been moderating its GPT Store with a very light touch. In a survey of the GPT Store’s offerings, TechCrunch found numerous examples of custom ChatGPT instances that appear to violate the store’s own policies.