High Gear for Llama 3.1 405B: SambaNova boosts Llama 3.1 performance with fast, free access to largest model
Generative AI

High Gear for Llama 3.1 405B: SambaNova boosts Llama 3.1 performance with fast, free access to largest model

SambaNova raised the speed limit for access to the largest model in the Llama 3.1 family — and it’s free.

September 18, 20242 min read
High Gear for Llama 3.1 405B: SambaNova boosts Llama 3.1 performance with fast, free access to largest model
Generative AI

High Gear for Llama 3.1 405B: SambaNova boosts Llama 3.1 performance with fast, free access to largest model

SambaNova raised the speed limit for access to the largest model in the Llama 3.1 family — and it’s free.

September 18, 20242 min read
OpenAI Forges Chains of Thought: OpenAI’s o1 models excel in reasoning, outperform GPT-4o in math and coding
Generative AI

OpenAI Forges Chains of Thought: OpenAI’s o1 models excel in reasoning, outperform GPT-4o in math and coding

Preliminary versions of OpenAI’s new model family were trained explicitly to think step-by-step, yielding outstanding marks in math, science, and coding — but users can’t see their reasoning steps.

September 18, 20243 min read
OpenAI Forges Chains of Thought: OpenAI’s o1 models excel in reasoning, outperform GPT-4o in math and coding
Generative AI

OpenAI Forges Chains of Thought: OpenAI’s o1 models excel in reasoning, outperform GPT-4o in math and coding

Preliminary versions of OpenAI’s new model family were trained explicitly to think step-by-step, yielding outstanding marks in math, science, and coding — but users can’t see their reasoning steps.

September 18, 20243 min read
2D-to-3D Goes Mainstream: AI systems from Stability AI and Shutterstock transform 2D images into 3D meshes in seconds
Generative AI

2D-to-3D Goes Mainstream: AI systems from Stability AI and Shutterstock transform 2D images into 3D meshes in seconds

Traditionally, building 3D meshes for gaming, animation, product design, architecture, and the like has been labor-intensive. Now the ability to generate 3D meshes from a single image is widely available.

September 11, 20242 min read
2D-to-3D Goes Mainstream: AI systems from Stability AI and Shutterstock transform 2D images into 3D meshes in seconds
Generative AI

2D-to-3D Goes Mainstream: AI systems from Stability AI and Shutterstock transform 2D images into 3D meshes in seconds

Traditionally, building 3D meshes for gaming, animation, product design, architecture, and the like has been labor-intensive. Now the ability to generate 3D meshes from a single image is widely available.

September 11, 20242 min read
Making LLMs Explainable: Google’s Gemma Scope probes how large language models think
Generative AI

Making LLMs Explainable: Google’s Gemma Scope probes how large language models think

Researchers have probed the inner workings of individual layers of large language models. A new tool applies this approach to all layers.

September 4, 20243 min read
Making LLMs Explainable: Google’s Gemma Scope probes how large language models think
Generative AI

Making LLMs Explainable: Google’s Gemma Scope probes how large language models think

Researchers have probed the inner workings of individual layers of large language models. A new tool applies this approach to all layers.

September 4, 20243 min read
Long Context Gets Up to Speed: AI21 Labs’ Jamba 1.5 outpaces transformers in long-text processing
Generative AI

Long Context Gets Up to Speed: AI21 Labs’ Jamba 1.5 outpaces transformers in long-text processing

A new model generates tokens faster than current transformers, especially when processing long inputs.

September 4, 20243 min read
Long Context Gets Up to Speed: AI21 Labs’ Jamba 1.5 outpaces transformers in long-text processing
Generative AI

Long Context Gets Up to Speed: AI21 Labs’ Jamba 1.5 outpaces transformers in long-text processing

A new model generates tokens faster than current transformers, especially when processing long inputs.

September 4, 20243 min read
Agentic Coding Strides Forward:  Genie coding assistant outperforms competitors on SWE-bench by over 30 percent
Generative AI

Agentic Coding Strides Forward: Genie coding assistant outperforms competitors on SWE-bench by over 30 percent

An agentic coding assistant boosted the state of the art in an important benchmark by more than 30 percent.

August 28, 20242 min read
Agentic Coding Strides Forward:  Genie coding assistant outperforms competitors on SWE-bench by over 30 percent
Generative AI

Agentic Coding Strides Forward: Genie coding assistant outperforms competitors on SWE-bench by over 30 percent

An agentic coding assistant boosted the state of the art in an important benchmark by more than 30 percent.

August 28, 20242 min read
Scaling Laws for Data Quality: Scaling laws reveal the impact of data quality in vision-language model training
Generative AI

Scaling Laws for Data Quality: Scaling laws reveal the impact of data quality in vision-language model training

When training vision-language models, developers often remove lower-quality examples from the training set. But keeping only the highest-quality examples may not be ideal, researchers found.

August 21, 20242 min read
Scaling Laws for Data Quality: Scaling laws reveal the impact of data quality in vision-language model training
Generative AI

Scaling Laws for Data Quality: Scaling laws reveal the impact of data quality in vision-language model training

When training vision-language models, developers often remove lower-quality examples from the training set. But keeping only the highest-quality examples may not be ideal, researchers found.

August 21, 20242 min read
Open Models for Math and Audio: Alibaba advances open-weight LLMs with Qwen2 Math and Audio variants
Generative AI

Open Models for Math and Audio: Alibaba advances open-weight LLMs with Qwen2 Math and Audio variants

Alibaba followed up its open-weights Qwen2 large language models with specialized variations.

August 21, 20243 min read

Subscribe to The Batch

Stay updated with weekly AI News and Insights delivered to your inbox