Dec 18, 2024

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Focus on the Future, Learn From the Past: 15 years ago, the idea of scaling up deep learning was controversial — but it was right. Keep your eyes open for such ideas in 2025.
Dec 18, 2024

Focus on the Future, Learn From the Past: 15 years ago, the idea of scaling up deep learning was controversial — but it was right. Keep your eyes open for such ideas in 2025.

I’m thrilled that former students and postdocs of mine won both of this year’s NeurIPS Test of Time Paper Awards.

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Focus on the Future, Learn From the Past: 15 years ago, the idea of scaling up deep learning was controversial — but it was right. Keep your eyes open for such ideas in 2025.
Dec 18, 2024

Focus on the Future, Learn From the Past: 15 years ago, the idea of scaling up deep learning was controversial — but it was right. Keep your eyes open for such ideas in 2025.

I’m thrilled that former students and postdocs of mine won both of this year’s NeurIPS Test of Time Paper Awards.

3 min read
Phi-4 Breaks Size Barrier, HunyuanVideo Narrows Open Source Gap, Gemini 2.0 Flash Accelerates Multimodal Modeling, LLMs Propose Research Ideas
Dec 18, 2024

Phi-4 Breaks Size Barrier, HunyuanVideo Narrows Open Source Gap, Gemini 2.0 Flash Accelerates Multimodal Modeling, LLMs Propose Research Ideas

The Batch AI News and Insights: I’m thrilled that former students and postdocs of mine won both of this year’s NeurIPS Test of Time Paper Awards.

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Phi-4 Breaks Size Barrier, HunyuanVideo Narrows Open Source Gap, Gemini 2.0 Flash Accelerates Multimodal Modeling, LLMs Propose Research Ideas
Dec 18, 2024

Phi-4 Breaks Size Barrier, HunyuanVideo Narrows Open Source Gap, Gemini 2.0 Flash Accelerates Multimodal Modeling, LLMs Propose Research Ideas

The Batch AI News and Insights: I’m thrilled that former students and postdocs of mine won both of this year’s NeurIPS Test of Time Paper Awards.

14 min read
When LLMs Propose Research Ideas: Stanford study finds AI matches human experts at writing research proposals
Dec 18, 2024

When LLMs Propose Research Ideas: Stanford study finds AI matches human experts at writing research proposals

How do agents based on large language models compare to human experts when it comes to proposing machine learning research? Pretty well, according to one study.

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When LLMs Propose Research Ideas: Stanford study finds AI matches human experts at writing research proposals
Dec 18, 2024

When LLMs Propose Research Ideas: Stanford study finds AI matches human experts at writing research proposals

How do agents based on large language models compare to human experts when it comes to proposing machine learning research? Pretty well, according to one study.

3 min read
Multimodal Modeling on the Double: Google introduces Gemini 2.0 Flash, a faster, more capable AI model
Dec 18, 2024

Multimodal Modeling on the Double: Google introduces Gemini 2.0 Flash, a faster, more capable AI model

Google’s Gemini 2.0 Flash, the first member of its updated Gemini family of large multimodal models, combines speed with performance that exceeds that of its earlier flagship model, Gemini 1.5 Pro, on several measures.

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Multimodal Modeling on the Double: Google introduces Gemini 2.0 Flash, a faster, more capable AI model
Dec 18, 2024

Multimodal Modeling on the Double: Google introduces Gemini 2.0 Flash, a faster, more capable AI model

Google’s Gemini 2.0 Flash, the first member of its updated Gemini family of large multimodal models, combines speed with performance that exceeds that of its earlier flagship model, Gemini 1.5 Pro, on several measures.

3 min read
Open Video Gen Closes the Gap: Tencent releases HunyuanVideo, an open source model rivaling commercial video generators
Dec 18, 2024

Open Video Gen Closes the Gap: Tencent releases HunyuanVideo, an open source model rivaling commercial video generators

The gap is narrowing between closed and open models for video generation.

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Open Video Gen Closes the Gap: Tencent releases HunyuanVideo, an open source model rivaling commercial video generators
Dec 18, 2024

Open Video Gen Closes the Gap: Tencent releases HunyuanVideo, an open source model rivaling commercial video generators

The gap is narrowing between closed and open models for video generation.

2 min read
Phi-4 Beats Models Five Times Its Size: Microsoft’s Phi-4 learned from a blend of synthetic and organic data to surpass larger models in math and reasoning benchmarks
Dec 18, 2024

Phi-4 Beats Models Five Times Its Size: Microsoft’s Phi-4 learned from a blend of synthetic and organic data to surpass larger models in math and reasoning benchmarks

Microsoft updated its smallest model family with a single, surprisingly high-performance model.

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Phi-4 Beats Models Five Times Its Size: Microsoft’s Phi-4 blends synthetic and organic data to surpass larger models in math and reasoning benchmarks
Dec 18, 2024

Phi-4 Beats Models Five Times Its Size: Microsoft’s Phi-4 blends synthetic and organic data to surpass larger models in math and reasoning benchmarks

Microsoft updated its smallest model family with a single, surprisingly high-performance model.

3 min read

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