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DeepSeek-R1 Refreshed, AI’s Energy Conundrum, Agents Get Phished, Machine Translation in Action
The Batch AI News and Insights: Everyone can benefit by learning to code with AI! At AI Fund, the venture studio I lead, everyone — not just the engineers — can vibe code or use more sophisticated AI-assisted coding techniques.
Claude 4 Advances Code Gen, How DeepSeek Built V3 For $5.6m, Google I/O Roundup, O’Reilly Versus OpenAI
The Batch AI News and Insights: I am alarmed by the proposed cuts to U.S. funding for basic research, analyzed here, and the impact this would have for U.S. competitiveness in AI and other areas.
Codex’s Robot Dev Team, Grok’s Fixation on South Africa, Saudi Arabia’s AI Power Play, 4-Bit Efficiency With 16-Bit Accuracy
The Batch AI News and Insights: In the age of AI, large corporations — not just startups — can move fast. I often speak with large companies’ C-suite and Boards about AI strategy and implementation, and would like to share some ideas that are applicable to big companies.
Recipes For Reasoning, Open and Compact Code Generator, Looser AI Regulations, More Factual Output
The Batch AI News and Insights: AI’s ability to make tasks not just cheaper, but also faster, is underrated in its importance in creating business value.
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.
OpenAI’s Hit Image Generator, Hot AI Startups, Better Recommendations, Music Generation for Pros
The Batch AI News and Insights: I hope we can empower everyone to build with AI.
OpenAI’s Five New Models, Hugging Face’s Open Robot, U.S. Tightens Grip on AI Chips, Text-Only LLMs Go Multimodal
The Batch AI News and Insights: Even though I’m a much better Python than JavaScript developer, with AI assistance, I’ve been writing a lot of JavaScript code recently.
Google Unveils Gemini 2.5, MCP Gains Momentum, Behind Sam Altman’s Fall and Rise, LLMs That Understand Misspellings
The Batch AI News and Insights: I’ve noticed that many GenAI application projects put in automated evaluations (evals) of the system’s output probably later — and rely on humans to manually examine and judge outputs longer — than they should.
Inside the Mind of Claude, Llama 4’s Mixture of Vision-Language Experts, More Open Multimodal Models, Neural Net for Tabular Data
The Batch AI News and Insights: I am so sorry that the U.S. is letting down our friends and allies.
Open Voice-to-Voice With Vision, ChatGPT Creates Emotional Bonds, Human Action in 3D, Web Scrapers Caught in Maze
The Batch AI News and Insights: Contrary to standard prompting advice that you should give LLMs the context they need to succeed, I find it’s sometimes faster to be lazy and dash off a quick, imprecise prompt and see what happens.
Compact Vision-Language with Open Weights, Faster Learning, Diffusion in Few Steps, LLMs Aid Tutors
The Batch AI News and Insights: Fine-tuning small language models has been gaining traction over the past half year.
Inside Google’s Co-Scientist, Copyright Office Weighs Generated Works, Multilingual (and Good at All of Them), Diffusion for Materials Design
The Batch AI News and Insights: Last Friday on Pi Day, we held AI Dev 25, a new conference for AI Developers.
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.
GPT-4.5 Goes Big, Claude 3.7 Reasons, Alexa+ Goes Agentic, Generating Text Like an Image
The Batch AI News and Insights: Continuing our discussion on the Voice Stack, I’d like to explore an area that today’s voice-based systems mostly struggle with: Voice Activity Detection (VAD) and the turn-taking paradigm of communication.
Meta Reads Minds, Big AI Spending Climbs, Deepfakes Appropriate Celeb Likenesses, Reasoning in Vectors
The Batch AI News and Insights: The Voice Stack is improving rapidly. Systems that interact with users via speaking and listening will drive many new applications.
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