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I’m delighted to announce that AI Fund has closed $190M for our new fund, in an oversubscribed round.
May 7, 2025
The Batch Newsletter
ChatGPT Grovels, Qwen3 Takes on DeepSeek-R1, Johnson & Johnson Reveals AI Strategy, Easy Reasoning Hack
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
One Weird Trick for Better Reasoning: Researchers fine-tune LLM for reasoning with only 1,000 examples
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
AI Insights from Big Pharma: Johnson & Johnson reveals its revised AI strategy
The world’s biggest pharmaceutical company by revenue shed light on its AI strategy.
Machine Learning Research
The User Is Always… a Genius!: OpenAI pulls GPT-4o update after users report sycophantic behavior
OpenAI’s most widely used model briefly developed a habit of flattering users, with laughable and sometimes worrisome results.
Machine Learning Research
Qwen3 Takes On DeepSeek-R1: Alibaba releases the Qwen3 family of open LLMs with optional reasoning
Alibaba’s new model family may unseat DeepSeek-R1’s four-month reign as the top open-weights large language model.