Tech & Society
Self-Driving on Indian Roads: Indian self-driving car startups tackle chaotic roads
Few makers of self-driving cars have braved the streets of India. Native startups are filling the gap.
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Science
Heart-Risk Model Saves Lives: Deep learning model identifies high-risk patients from EKG readings
A deep learning model significantly reduced deaths among critically ill hospital patients.
Data Points
Hugging Face gives researchers and startups GPU access: Plus, Meta unveils a new mixed-modal model
This week's top AI news and research stories featured everything we know about OpenAI's GPT-4o, highlights from Google’s annual I/O developers’ conference, Sony Music's declaration opting out of AI training, and details about Meta's Emu Edit model. But first:
Letters
Project Idea — A Car for Dinosaurs: AI projects don’t need to have a meaningful deliverable. Lower the bar and do something creative.
A good way to get started in AI is to start with coursework, which gives a systematic way to gain knowledge, and then to work on projects.
The Batch Newsletter
Music Industry Titan Targets AI, End-to-End Multimodality, Millions of Tokens of Context, More Responsive Text-to-Image
The Batch AI News and Insights: A good way to get started in AI is to start with coursework, which gives a systematic way to gain knowledge, and then to work on projects.
Machine Learning Research
Interpreting Image Edit Instructions: Meta’s Emu Edit improves text-to-image generation with task classification.
The latest text-to-image generators can alter images in response to a text prompt, but their outputs often don’t accurately reflect the text. They do better if, in addition to a prompt, they’re told the general type of alteration they’re expected to make.
Tech & Society
Music Titan Targets AI: Sony Music accuses AI developers of copyright violations.
The world’s second-largest music publisher accused AI developers of potential copyright violations.
Tech & Society
2 Million Tokens of Context & More: Google’s I/O developers’ conference reveals new AI models, features, and upgrades.
Google’s annual I/O developers’ conference brought a plethora of updates and new models.
Tech & Society
Faster, Cheaper Multimodality: All about GPT-4o, OpenAI’s latest multimodal model
OpenAI’s latest model raises the bar for models that can work with common media types in any combination.
The Batch Newsletter
OpenAI’s Rules for Model Behavior, Better Brain-Controlled Robots, AlphaFold 3 Covers All Biochemistry, AI Oasis in the Desert
The Batch AI News and Insights: In the last couple of days, Google announced a doubling of Gemini Pro 1.5's input context window from 1 million to 2 million tokens, and OpenAI released GPT-4o...
Data Points
AI for spies: Plus, Stack Overflow’s controversial deal with OpenAI
This week's top AI news and research stories featured OpenAI's high-level guidelines for use by human labelers to steer model behavior, all about AlphaFold 3, Saudi Arabia's $100 billion investment AI, and a method that commands a robot to perform practical tasks...
Letters
From Prompts to Mega-Prompts: Best practices for developers of LLM-based applications in the era of long context and faster, cheaper token generation
In the last couple of days, Google announced a doubling of Gemini Pro 1.5's input context window from 1 million to 2 million tokens, and OpenAI released GPT-4o, which generates tokens 2x faster and 50% cheaper than GPT-4 Turbo and natively accepts and generates multimodal tokens.