The Batch Newsletter
The Batch AI News and Insights: Tool use, in which an LLM is given functions it can request to call for gathering information, taking action, or manipulating data, is a key design pattern of AI agentic workflows.
Data Points
This week's top AI news and research stories featured details about Microsoft's absorption of Inflection AI, Nvidia’s latest chip, a voluntary commitment to internal and external oversight of machine learning models by scientists, and a procedure that fine-tunes large language models...
Machine Learning Research
Large language models sometimes generate false statements. New work makes them more likely to produce factual output.
Science
Scientists pledged to control their use of AI to produce potentially hazardous biological materials.
Hardware
Nvidia’s latest chip promises to boost AI’s speed and energy efficiency.
Tech & Society
Microsoft took over most of the once high-flying chatbot startup Inflection AI in an unusual deal.