Letters
The Falling Cost of Building AI Applications: Big AI’s huge investments in foundation models enables developers to build AI applications at very low cost.
There’s a lingering misconception that building with generative AI is expensive.
Dec 04, 2024
The Batch Newsletter
AI Agents Spend Real Money, Breaking Jailbreaks, Mistral Goes Big and Multimodal, AI’s Growing E-Waste Problem
The Batch AI News and Insights: AI Agents Spend Real Money, Breaking Jailbreaks, Mistral Goes Big and Multimodal, AI’s Growing E-Waste Problem.
Machine Learning Research
Breaking Jailbreaks: New E-DPO method strengthens defenses against jailbreak prompts
Jailbreak prompts can prod a large language model (LLM) to overstep built-in boundaries, leading it to do things like respond to queries it was trained to refuse to answer. Researchers devised a way to further boost the probability that LLMs will respond in ways that respect such limits.
Hardware
Garbage Out: Generative AI and GPU boom spawns growing e-waste problem
Rapid progress in generative AI comes with a hidden environmental cost: mountains of obsolete hardware.
Machine Learning Research
Mistral’s Vision-Language Contender: Mistral unveils Pixtral Large, a rival to top vision-language models
Mistral AI unveiled Pixtral Large, which rivals top models at processing combinations of text and images.
Business
Agents Open the Wallet: Stripe builds ecommerce agent toolkit for AI to securely spend money
One of the world’s biggest payment processors is enabling large language models to spend real money.