About6 PostsMar 20, 2026A Single Tokenizer for Visual Media: Apple’s AToken, a multimodal model with a single encoder and tokenizer for images, videos, and 3D objectsMultimodal models typically use different tokenizers to embed different media types, and different encoders when training to generate media rather than classify it.Mar 20, 2026DeepSeek Snubs Nvidia for Huawei: DeepSeek made its upcoming 4.0 model available for performance testing to Chinese chipmakers but not U.S, onesDeepSeek, the Chinese developer of outstanding open-weights models, has withheld an upcoming update of its flagship model from U.S. chip makers, a move that intensifies the AI rivalry between the U.S. and China.Mar 20, 2026Qwen3.5 Outperforms Bigger Models, Leads Vision Benchmarks: Alibaba’s latest flagship models are open-weights MoE performers in sizes from less than 1B parametersThe Qwen3.5 family of open-weights vision-language models includes impressive larger models as well as a smaller one that outperforms an OpenAI open-weights model 10 times its size.Mar 20, 2026Drones Hit Persian Gulf Data Centers: Iran struck AWS facilities in Bahrain and the UAE, threatened data centers throughout the regionIran hit at least three Amazon data centers in the Middle East, an indicator of AI’s critical role in the United States’ war against Iran and possibly the first time such facilities have been targeted during warfare.Mar 20, 2026Attacks On Data Centers, Qwen3.5 In All Sizes, DeepSeek’s Huawei Play, Apple’s Multimodal TokenizerThe Batch AI News and Insights: I’ve been hearing from people at all levels of seniority about a feeling of job insecurity.Mar 20, 2026That Feeling Of Job Insecurity (And What You Can Do About It): In times of economic and technological uncertainty, build on things that tend to remain stable. Community and skills are likely to weather shifts in business and society.I’ve been hearing from people at all levels of seniority about a feeling of job insecurity.Subscribe to The BatchStay updated with weekly AI News and Insights delivered to your inbox