Letters
Learn the Language of Software: AI won’t kill programming. There has never been a better time to start coding.
Some people today are discouraging others from learning programming on the grounds AI will automate it.
Mar 12, 2025
The Batch Newsletter
DeepSeek-R1 Uncensored, QwQ-32B Puts Reasoning in Smaller Model, Phi-4-multimodal Takes Spoken Input, Training AI May Not Be Fair Use
The Batch AI News and Insights: Some people today are discouraging others from learning programming on the grounds AI will automate it.
Tech & Society
DeepSeek-R1 Uncensored: Perplexity launches uncensored version of DeepSeek-R1
Large language models built by developers in China may, in some applications, be less useful outside that country because they avoid topics its government deems politically sensitive. A developer fine-tuned DeepSeek-R1 to widen its scope without degrading its overall performance.
Tech & Society
Judge Upholds Copyright in AI Training Case: U.S. court rejects fair use defense in Thomson Reuters AI lawsuit
A United States court delivered a major ruling that begins to answer the question whether, and under what conditions, training an AI system on copyrighted material is considered fair use that doesn’t require permission.
Machine Learning Research
Microsoft Tackles Voice-In, Text-Out: Microsoft’s Phi-4 Multimodal model can process text, images, and speech simultaneously
Microsoft debuted its first official large language model that responds to spoken input.
Machine Learning Research
Compact Reasoning: QwQ-32B challenges DeepSeek-R1 and other larger reasoning models
Most models that have learned to reason via reinforcement learning were huge models. A much smaller model now competes with them.