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Chatbots That Build Community by Sharon Zhou: Sharon Zhou of AMD on expanding chat to serve groups and connect us with other people
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Chatbots That Build Community by Sharon Zhou: Sharon Zhou of AMD on expanding chat to serve groups and connect us with other people

Next year, I’m excited to see AI break out of 1:1 relationships with each of us. In 2026, AI has the potential to bring people together and unite us with human connection, rather than polarize and isolate us. It’s about time for ChatGPT to enter your group chats.

January 2, 20262 min read
Multimodal Models for Biomedicine by Pengtao Xie: Pengtao Xie of UC-San Diego on why medical models need to visualize tiny chemicals and large organs
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Multimodal Models for Biomedicine by Pengtao Xie: Pengtao Xie of UC-San Diego on why medical models need to visualize tiny chemicals and large organs

Over the past few years, we have seen rapid progress in models that jointly reason over text, images, sequences, graphs, and time series. Yet in biomedical settings, these capabilities often remain fragmented, brittle, or difficult to interpret.

January 2, 20262 min read
From Prediction to Action by Tanmay Gupta: Tanmay Gupta of the Allen Institute on building AI for long-horizon tasks
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From Prediction to Action by Tanmay Gupta: Tanmay Gupta of the Allen Institute on building AI for long-horizon tasks

AI research in 2026 should confront a simple but transformative realization: Models that predict are not the same as systems that act. The latter is what we actually need.

January 2, 20263 min read
Education That Works With — Not Against — AI by Juan M. Lavista Ferres: Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Chief Data Scientist at Microsoft, on assignments that properly test students’ abilities
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Education That Works With — Not Against — AI by Juan M. Lavista Ferres: Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Chief Data Scientist at Microsoft, on assignments that properly test students’ abilities

A little more than three years ago, OpenAI released ChatGPT, and education changed forever. For students, the ability to generate fluent, credible text on demand in seconds is an incredible new tool.

January 2, 20262 min read
AI for Scientific Discovery by Adji Bousso Dieng: Adji Bousso Dieng, Princeton University Assistant Professor and AI Researcher, on optimizing models for the long tail
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AI for Scientific Discovery by Adji Bousso Dieng: Adji Bousso Dieng, Princeton University Assistant Professor and AI Researcher, on optimizing models for the long tail

In 2026, I hope AI will transition from being a tool for efficiency to a catalyst for scientific discovery.

January 2, 20262 min read
Open Source Wins by David Cox: David Cox, VP for AI Models at IBM Research, on the need for open development in AI
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Open Source Wins by David Cox: David Cox, VP for AI Models at IBM Research, on the need for open development in AI

My hope is that open AI continues to flourish and ultimately wins.

January 2, 20262 min read
New Opportunities for the New Year: AI-assisted coding lets you prototype applications quickly and easily. Go forth and build!
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New Opportunities for the New Year: AI-assisted coding lets you prototype applications quickly and easily. Go forth and build!

Despite having worked on AI since I was a teenager, I’m now more excited than ever about what we can do with it, especially in building AI applications.

January 1, 20253 min read
New Opportunities for the New Year: AI-assisted coding lets you prototype applications quickly and easily. Go forth and build!
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New Opportunities for the New Year: AI-assisted coding lets you prototype applications quickly and easily. Go forth and build!

Despite having worked on AI since I was a teenager, I’m now more excited than ever about what we can do with it, especially in building AI applications.

January 1, 20253 min read
Happy New Year! Hopes For 2025 With Mustafa Suleyman, Audrey Tang, Albert Gu, Hanno Basse, Joseph Gonzalez, David Ding
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Happy New Year! Hopes For 2025 With Mustafa Suleyman, Audrey Tang, Albert Gu, Hanno Basse, Joseph Gonzalez, David Ding

The Batch AI News and Insights: Despite having worked on AI since I was a teenager, I’m now more excited than ever about what we can do with it, especially in building AI applications.

January 1, 202517 min read
Happy New Year! Hopes For 2025 With Mustafa Suleyman, Audrey Tang, Albert Gu, Hanno Basse, Joseph Gonzalez, David Ding
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Happy New Year! Hopes For 2025 With Mustafa Suleyman, Audrey Tang, Albert Gu, Hanno Basse, Joseph Gonzalez, David Ding

The Batch AI News and Insights: Despite having worked on AI since I was a teenager, I’m now more excited than ever about what we can do with it, especially in building AI applications.

January 1, 202517 min read
Audrey Tang: AI that unites us
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Audrey Tang: AI that unites us

As we approach 2025, my greatest hope for AI is that it will enable prosocial platforms that promote empathy, understanding, and collaboration rather than division.

January 1, 20252 min read
Audrey Tang: AI that unites us
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Audrey Tang: AI that unites us

As we approach 2025, my greatest hope for AI is that it will enable prosocial platforms that promote empathy, understanding, and collaboration rather than division.

January 1, 20252 min read
Mustafa Suleyman: Agents of action
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Mustafa Suleyman: Agents of action

In 2025, AI will have learned to see, it will be way smarter and more accurate, and it will start to do things on your behalf.

January 1, 20252 min read
Mustafa Suleyman: Agents of action
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Mustafa Suleyman: Agents of action

In 2025, AI will have learned to see, it will be way smarter and more accurate, and it will start to do things on your behalf.

January 1, 20252 min read
Albert Gu: More learning, less data
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Albert Gu: More learning, less data

Building a foundation model takes tremendous amounts of data. In the coming year, I hope we’ll enable models to learn more from less data.

January 1, 20253 min read

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