Data Points
Mistral’s new medium-sized language model. Claude developers gain access to web search. Alibaba uses RL to teach LLMs to search better. OpenAI’s plans to build AI infrastructure worldwide.
Letters
I’m delighted to announce that AI Fund has closed $190M for our new fund, in an oversubscribed round.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch AI News and Insights: I’m delighted to announce that AI Fund has closed $190M for our new fund, in an oversubscribed round.
Machine Learning Research
Researchers showed that supervised fine-tuning on as few as 1,000 examples can enable a pretrained large language model to reason — and a clever gambit can boost its performance to rival that of top reasoning models.
Business
The world’s biggest pharmaceutical company by revenue shed light on its AI strategy.
Machine Learning Research
OpenAI’s most widely used model briefly developed a habit of flattering users, with laughable and sometimes worrisome results.
Machine Learning Research
Alibaba’s new model family may unseat DeepSeek-R1’s four-month reign as the top open-weights large language model.
Data Points
DeepSeek’s new mathematical model. Meta’s latest ChatGPT competitor. A new approach to generating extended-length video. AI shopping gets online payment giants’ blessing.
Data Points
Microsoft’s Phi-4 updates add reasoning to small models. OpenAI rolls back cloying update to GPT-4o, explains what went wrong. Amazon debuts its largest multimodal teacher/agent model yet. Meta partners with fast inference providers for new official API.
Letters
I hope we can empower everyone to build with AI. Starting from K-12, we should teach every student AI enabled coding, since this will enable them to become more productive and more empowered adults.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch AI News and Insights: I hope we can empower everyone to build with AI.
Machine Learning Research
Large language models can improve systems that recommend items to purchase by inferring customer preferences.