Dec 04, 2024

12 Posts

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.
Dec 04, 2024

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.

3 min read
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.
Dec 04, 2024

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.

3 min read
AI Agents Spend Real Money, Breaking Jailbreaks, Mistral Goes Big and Multimodal, AI’s Growing E-Waste Problem
Dec 04, 2024

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.

11 min read
AI Agents Spend Real Money, Breaking Jailbreaks, Mistral Goes Big and Multimodal, AI’s Growing E-Waste Problem
Dec 04, 2024

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.

11 min read
Breaking Jailbreaks: New E-DPO method strengthens defenses against jailbreak prompts
Dec 04, 2024

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.

2 min read
Breaking Jailbreaks: New E-DPO method strengthens defenses against jailbreak prompts
Dec 04, 2024

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.

2 min read
Garbage Out: Generative AI and GPU boom spawns growing e-waste problem
Dec 04, 2024

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.

2 min read
Garbage Out: Generative AI and GPU boom spawns growing e-waste problem
Dec 04, 2024

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.

2 min read
Mistral’s Vision-Language Contender: Mistral unveils Pixtral Large, a rival to top vision-language models
Dec 04, 2024

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.

2 min read
Mistral’s Vision-Language Contender: Mistral unveils Pixtral Large, a rival to top vision-language models
Dec 04, 2024

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.

2 min read
Agents Open the Wallet: Stripe builds ecommerce agent toolkit for AI to securely spend money
Dec 04, 2024

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.

1 min read
Agents Open the Wallet: Stripe builds ecommerce agent toolkit for AI to securely spend money
Dec 04, 2024

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.

1 min read

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