Letters
From Optimizing for People to Optimizing for Machines: Why large language models are increasingly fine-tuned to fit into agentic workflows
Large language models (LLMs) are typically optimized to answer peoples’ questions.
Nov 13, 2024
The Batch Newsletter
Llama On the Battlefield, Mixture of Experts Pulls Ahead, Open Agentic Platform, Voter Support Chatbot
The Batch AI News and Insights: Large language models (LLMs) are typically optimized to answer peoples’ questions.
Machine Learning Research
Free Agents: OpenHands launches as an open toolkit for advanced code generation and automation
An open source package inspired by the commercial agentic code generator Devin aims to automate computer programming and more.
Tech & Society
Voter’s Helper: Perplexity’s AI-powered U.S. election hub assists voters with verified, real-time news and insights
Some voters navigated last week’s United States elections with help from a large language model that generated output based on verified, nonpartisan information.
Tech & Society
Big AI Pursues Military Contracts: Meta and Anthropic open doors for AI in U.S. defense and national security
Two top AI companies changed their stances on military and intelligence applications.
Machine Learning Research
Mixture of Experts Pulls Ahead: Hunyuan-Large outshines open competitors with high benchmark scores
A new open source large language model outperforms competitors, including the open-weights Llama 3.1 405B, on a variety of benchmarks.