Tech & Society
Rise of the AI PC: Microsoft launches AI-driven Copilot+ PCs
Generative AI plays a starring role in the latest Windows PCs.
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Data Points
How top models perform on a challenging new benchmark: Plus, Open AI’s latest agreements with news publishers
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
We Need Better Evals for LLM Applications: It’s hard to evaluate AI applications built on large language models. Better evals would accelerate progress.
A barrier to faster progress in generative AI is evaluations (evals), particularly of custom AI applications that generate free-form text.
The Batch Newsletter
Heart-Risk Model Saves Lives, Self-Driving on Unruly Roads, Knowledge Workers Embrace AI, Richer Context for RAG
The Batch AI News and Insights: A barrier to faster progress in generative AI is evaluations (evals), particularly of custom AI applications that generate free-form text.
Machine Learning Research
Richer Context for RAG: RAPTOR, a recursive summarizer, captures more relevant context for LLM inputs
Text excerpts used in retrieval augmented generation (RAG) tend to be short. Researchers used summarization to pack more relevant context into the same amount of text.
Tech & Society
Knowledge Workers Embrace AI: AI gaining traction at work, rewarding early adopters, survey finds
AI could offer paths to promotion and relief from busywork for many knowledge workers.
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.
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.