Data Points
NVIDIA and Mistral AI introduced Mistral-NeMo-Minitron 8B, a new language model that outperforms similarly sized models on multiple benchmarks.
Data Points
The two new Jamba models use a hybrid solid state model-transformer architecture, feature an effective 256,000-token context window, and outperform competitors in their size
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch AI News and Insights: I’m encouraged at the progress of the U.S. government at moving to stem harmful AI applications.
Machine Learning Research
When training vision-language models, developers often remove lower-quality examples from the training set. But keeping only the highest-quality examples may not be ideal, researchers found.
Generative AI
Alibaba followed up its open-weights Qwen2 large language models with specialized variations.
Generative AI
Image generation continued its rapid march forward with a new version of Google’s flagship text-to-image model.
Generative AI
While some observers argue that large language models can’t produce truly original output, new work prompted them to generate novel scientific research.
Letters
I’m encouraged at the progress of the U.S. government at moving to stem harmful AI applications.
Data Points
ByteDance’s China-only video app, U.K. watchdog probes Anthropic’s deals, New Writer models for medicine and finance, SambaNova’s speedy inference platform
Data Points
A new automated paper-writing system from Sakana AI, GitHub’s Autofix uses GPT-4 to find and plug security holes, Google’s new AI voice assistant...
Machine Learning Research
Literary works are challenging to translate. Their relative length, cultural nuances, idiomatic expressions...
Business
OpenAI may be spending roughly twice as much money as it’s bringing in, a sign of the financial pressures of blazing the trail in commercial applications of AI.