Generative AI
Out of the Black Forest: Black Forest Labs’ Flux.1 outperforms top text-to-image models
A new company with deep roots in generative AI made an eye-catching debut.
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Business
Higher Performance, Lower Prices: AI model prices drop as competition heats up
Prices for access to large language models are falling as providers exploit new efficiencies and compete for new customers.
Letters
Thailand’s AI Push: How countries that aren’t AI hotspots will benefit from AI advances
When entrepreneurs build a startup, it is often their speed and momentum that gives them a shot at competing with the tech behemoths. This is true of countries as well.
The Batch Newsletter
LLM Price War, Black Forest’s Open Image Generator, The High Cost of AI Leadership, Machine Translation Goes Agentic
The Batch AI News and Insights | When entrepreneurs build a startup, it is often their speed and momentum that gives them a shot at competing with the tech behemoths.
Data Points
GPT-4o drops prices, supports JSON schemas: Plus, Figure’s new robot features sophisticated hands
Nvidia’s new Blackwell chips face months-long delays, Mistral adds fine-tuning and other custom tools, Langchain Studio IDE is built to build agents, Character.AI open-sources its in-house prompt developer
Business
Google Gets Character.AI Co-Founders: Google acquires Character.AI talent and tech in strategic move
Character.AI followed an emerging pattern for ambitious AI startups, trading its leadership to a tech giant in exchange for funds and a strategic makeover.
Letters
Learning to Code is Easier Than Ever!: Our “AI Python for Beginners” courses use an AI coding assistant to teach programming in a way that’s aligned with where the field is going rather than where it has been.
I’m delighted to announce AI Python for Beginners, a sequence of free short courses that teach anyone to code, regardless of background.
The Batch Newsletter
Google Gets Character.AI Co-Founders, Ukraine's Aquatic Drones, AI Recruiting Tools Fuel Arms Race, ASCII Art Defeats LLM Guardrails
The Batch AI News & Insights: I’m delighted to announce AI Python for Beginners, a sequence of free short courses that teach anyone to code, regardless of background.
Machine Learning Research
Art Attack: ArtPrompt, a technique that exploits ASCII art to bypass LLM safety measures
Seemingly an innocuous form of expression, ASCII art opens a new vector for jailbreak attacks on large language models (LLMs), enabling them to generate outputs that their developers tuned them to avoid producing.
Tech & Society
Ukraine Develops Aquatic Drones: Ukraine’s naval drones shift balance in Black Sea war against Russia
Buoyed by its military success developing unmanned aerial vehicles, Ukraine is building armed naval drones.
Tech & Society
AI-Assisted Applicants Counter AI-Assisted Recruiters: How AI is transforming the hiring process for job seekers and employers
Employers are embracing automated hiring tools, but prospective employees have AI-powered techniques of their own.
Data Points
A new 3D image model from NVIDIA and Shutterstock: Plus, the U.S. government warms to open-source
Meta’s powerful new real-time object segmentation model, Google expands its open-source Gemma family, how to measure models’ resistance to harmful prompts...