Feb 12, 2025

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The Difference Between “AI Safety” and “Responsible AI”: Talk about “AI safety” obscures an important point; AI isn't inherently unsafe. Instead, let’s talk about “responsible AI.”
Feb 12, 2025

The Difference Between “AI Safety” and “Responsible AI”: Talk about “AI safety” obscures an important point; AI isn't inherently unsafe. Instead, let’s talk about “responsible AI.”

At the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris this week, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance said, “I’m not here to talk about AI safety.

2 min read
The Difference Between “AI Safety” and “Responsible AI”: Talk about “AI safety” obscures an important point; AI isn't inherently unsafe. Instead, let’s talk about “responsible AI.”
Feb 12, 2025

The Difference Between “AI Safety” and “Responsible AI”: Talk about “AI safety” obscures an important point; AI isn't inherently unsafe. Instead, let’s talk about “responsible AI.”

At the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris this week, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance said, “I’m not here to talk about AI safety.

2 min read
OpenAI Does Deep Research, Google Goes to War, Alibaba Answers DeepSeek, Web Agents Do Tree Search
Feb 12, 2025

OpenAI Does Deep Research, Google Goes to War, Alibaba Answers DeepSeek, Web Agents Do Tree Search

The Batch AI News and Insights: At the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris this week, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance said, “I’m not here to talk about AI safety.

13 min read
OpenAI Does Deep Research, Google Goes to War, Alibaba Answers DeepSeek, Web Agents Do Tree Search
Feb 12, 2025

OpenAI Does Deep Research, Google Goes to War, Alibaba Answers DeepSeek, Web Agents Do Tree Search

The Batch AI News and Insights: At the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris this week, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance said, “I’m not here to talk about AI safety.

13 min read
Tree Search for Web Agents: How tree search improves AI agents’ ability to browse the web and complete tasks
Feb 12, 2025

Tree Search for Web Agents: How tree search improves AI agents’ ability to browse the web and complete tasks

Browsing the web to achieve a specific goal can be challenging for agents based on large language models and even for vision-language models that can process onscreen images of a browser.

3 min read
Tree Search for Web Agents: How tree search improves AI agents’ ability to browse the web and complete tasks
Feb 12, 2025

Tree Search for Web Agents: How tree search improves AI agents’ ability to browse the web and complete tasks

Browsing the web to achieve a specific goal can be challenging for agents based on large language models and even for vision-language models that can process onscreen images of a browser.

3 min read
Alibaba’s Answer to DeepSeek: Alibaba debuts Qwen2.5-VL, a powerful family of open vision-language models
Feb 12, 2025

Alibaba’s Answer to DeepSeek: Alibaba debuts Qwen2.5-VL, a powerful family of open vision-language models

While Hangzhou’s DeepSeek flexed its muscles, Chinese tech giant Alibaba vied for the spotlight with new open vision-language models.

3 min read
Alibaba’s Answer to DeepSeek: Alibaba debuts Qwen2.5-VL, a powerful family of open vision-language models
Feb 12, 2025

Alibaba’s Answer to DeepSeek: Alibaba debuts Qwen2.5-VL, a powerful family of open vision-language models

While Hangzhou’s DeepSeek flexed its muscles, Chinese tech giant Alibaba vied for the spotlight with new open vision-language models.

3 min read
Google Joins AI Peers In Military Work: Google revises AI principles, lifting ban on weapons and surveillance applications
Feb 12, 2025

Google Joins AI Peers In Military Work: Google revises AI principles, lifting ban on weapons and surveillance applications

Google revised its AI principles, reversing previous commitments to avoid work on weapons, surveillance, and other military applications beyond non-lethal uses like communications, logistics, and medicine.

3 min read
Google Joins AI Peers In Military Work: Google revises AI principles, lifting ban on weapons and surveillance applications
Feb 12, 2025

Google Joins AI Peers In Military Work: Google revises AI principles, lifting ban on weapons and surveillance applications

Google revised its AI principles, reversing previous commitments to avoid work on weapons, surveillance, and other military applications beyond non-lethal uses like communications, logistics, and medicine.

3 min read
Agents Go Deep: OpenAI’s Deep Research agent generates detailed reports by analyzing web sources
Feb 12, 2025

Agents Go Deep: OpenAI’s Deep Research agent generates detailed reports by analyzing web sources

OpenAI introduced a state-of-the-art agent that produces research reports by scouring the web and reasoning over what it finds.

2 min read
Agents Go Deep: OpenAI’s Deep Research agent generates detailed reports by analyzing web sources
Feb 12, 2025

Agents Go Deep: OpenAI’s Deep Research agent generates detailed reports by analyzing web sources

OpenAI introduced a state-of-the-art agent that produces research reports by scouring the web and reasoning over what it finds.

2 min read

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