Business
Anthropic Cultivates Alternatives: Anthropic secures $2 billion investment from Google, weeks after Amazon deal
Weeks after it announced a huge partnership deal with Amazon, Anthropic doubled down on its earlier relationship with Alphabet.
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Tech & Society
Cyberattack Strikes OpenAI: ChatGPT and API outages linked to DDoS attack by Anonymous Sudan
ChatGPT suffered a cyberattack apparently tied to the Kremlin. A ChatGPT outage on November 8 most likely was caused by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, OpenAI revealed.
Tech & Society
Actors Reach Accord on AI: All about the Hollywood actors and studios' deal on generative AI usage in films and TV
The longest actors’ strike in Hollywood history ended as actors and studios reached an accord on the use of generative AI in making movies.
Letters
Keep Open Source Free!: Regulators threaten to restrict open source development. That would be a huge mistake.
This week, I’m speaking at the World Economic Forum (WEF) and Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings in San Francisco, where leaders in business and government have convened to discuss AI and other topics.
The Batch Newsletter
OpenAI Empowers Developers, AI Risk in the Spotlight, Decoding Schizophrenic Language, Synthetic Data Helps Image Classification
The Batch - AI News & Insights: The past week has been an unusual split-screen time in AI. On one side, I see rapidly developing innovations from OpenAI, as well as Elon Musk's Grok and Kai-Fu Lee's open source Yi-34B large language model.
Machine Learning Research
Synthetic Data Helps Image Classification: StableRep, a method that trains vision transformers on images generated by Stable Diffusion
Generated images can be more effective than real ones in training a vision model to classify images. Yonglong Tian, Lijie Fan, and colleagues at Google and MIT introduced StableRep, a self-supervised method that trains vision transformers on images generated by...
Machine Learning Research
The Language of Schizophrenia: LLMs can play a valuable role in diagnosing schizophrenia, study finds.
Large language models may help psychiatrists resolve unanswered questions about mental illness. Researchers from University College London, Beijing Normal University, and Lisbon’s Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown used a large language model to...
Tech & Society
AI Safety Summit Mulls Risks: Countries and tech giants collaborate on global AI safety regulation.
An international conference of political leaders and tech executives agreed to regulate AI. 28 countries including China and the United States as well as the European Union signed a declaration aimed at mitigating AI risks.
Tech & Society
Generative AI as Development Platform: All the new models and products announced by OpenAI during DevDay
OpenAI added new features designed to help developers build applications using its generative models. OpenAI introduced a plethora of capabilities at its first developer conference in San Francisco.
The Batch Newsletter
Problematic White House AI Policy, Parked Cruise Robotaxis, Transparency For Foundation Models, Synthetic Data Helps Image Generators
The Batch - AI News & Insights: I’ve always believed in democratizing access to the latest advances in artificial intelligence. As a step in this direction, we just launched “Generative AI for Everyone” on Coursera.
Letters
Everyone Can Benefit From Generative AI Skills: Announcing “Generative AI For Everyone,” a new course that requires no background in coding or AI.
I’ve always believed in democratizing access to the latest advances in artificial intelligence. As a step in this direction, we just launched “Generative AI for Everyone” on Coursera.
Machine Learning Research
Synthetic Data Helps Image Generators: OpenAI researchers improved text-to-image prompt following with generated captions.
Text-to-image generators often miss details in text prompts, and sometimes they misunderstand parts of a prompt entirely. Synthetic captions can help them follow prompts more closely.