Tech & Society
Search Gets Conversational: OpenAI launches SearchGPT to rival Google and Microsoft
OpenAI is testing an AI-powered search engine in a bid to compete head-to-head with both Google and its close partner Microsoft Bing.
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Tech & Society
The State of the Art Is Open: Meta’s Llama 3.1 outperforms GPT-4 in key areas
Meta raised the bar for large language models with open weights and published details about how it built one that outperforms GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet by some measures.
Letters
How to Brainstorm AI Startup Ideas: Best practices for brainstorming, evaluating, and prioritizing great ideas for AI startups and products
Last week, I wrote about why working on a concrete startup or project idea — meaning a specific product envisioned in enough detail that we can build it for a specific target user
Data Points
Mistral unveils most capable model yet: Plus, Udio 1.5 features audio-to-audio and mixable stems
DeepSeek’s inexpensive V2 model gets a new license, Stable Video, now in four dimensions, how Runway trained its video model, Microsoft makes Phi-3 easier to fine-tune and deploy
The Batch Newsletter
OpenAI Shrinks GPT-4o, Meta Withholds Models From Europe, Investors Hoard GPUs, Synthetic Talking Heads Get Expressive
The Batch AI News and Insights: AI’s usefulness in a wide variety of applications creates many opportunities for entrepreneurship.
Machine Learning Research
Expressive Synthetic Talking Heads: Microsoft's VASA-1 delivers more lifelike talking-head videos
Previous systems that produce a talking-head video from a photo and a spoken-word audio clip animate the lips and other parts of the face separately.
Tech & Society
AI Investors Hoard GPU Power: Investors are stockpiling AI chips to attract startups
Investors have been gathering AI chips to attract AI startups.
Tech & Society
Meta Withholds Models From Europe: Meta restricts multimodal models in the European Union due to privacy concerns.
European users won’t have access to Meta’s multimodal models.
Tech & Society
Mini but Mighty: OpenAI’s GPT-4o Mini offers big performance at a small price
A slimmed-down version of Open AI’s multimodal flagship packs a low-price punch.
Letters
Concrete Ideas Make Strong AI Startups: AI startups can move more efficiently and effectively with a concrete product idea than a vague market concept.
AI’s usefulness in a wide variety of applications creates many opportunities for entrepreneurship.
Data Points
Mistral’s new model ditches transformers: Plus, can AI transform the agriculture industry?
Groq’s new tool use models, another AI safety and security industry group, Microsoft’s new research applying LLMs to spreadsheets, proposed safeguards to protect open AI models
Machine Learning Research
Hallucination Detector: Oxford scientists propose effective method to detect AI hallucinations
Large language models can produce output that’s convincing but false. Researchers proposed a way to identify such hallucinations.