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Our 196th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news!*and sometimes last last week's Recorded on 01/10/2024
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The Generator - An interdisciplinary AI lab empowering innovators from all fields to bring visionary ideas to life by harnessing the capabilities of artificial intelligence.In this episode:
- Nvidia announced a $3,000 personal AI supercomputer called Digits, featuring the GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, aiming to lower the barrier for developers working on large models. - The U.S. Department of Justice finalizes a rule restricting the transmission of specific data types to countries of concern, including China and Russia, under executive order 14117.- Meta allegedly trained Llama on pirated content from LibGen, with internal concerns about the legality confirmed through court filings. - Microsoft paused construction on a section of a large data center project in Wisconsin to reassess based on new technological changes.
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(00:00:00) Intro / Banter(00:04:52) Sponsor BreakTools & Apps(00:05:55) Nvidia announces $3,000 personal AI supercomputer called Digits(00:10:23) Meta removes AI character accounts after users criticize them as ‘creepy and unnecessary’Applications & Business(00:16:16) NVIDIA Is Reportedly Focused Towards “Custom Chip” Manufacturing, Recruiting Top Taiwanese Talent(00:21:54) AI start-up Anthropic closes in on $60bn valuation(00:25:38) Why OpenAI is Taking So Long to Launch Agents(00:30:08) TSMC Set to Expand CoWoS Capacity to Record 75,000 Wafers in 2025, Doubling 2024 Output(00:33:10) Microsoft 'pauses construction' on part of data center site in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin(00:37:23) Google folds more AI teams into DeepMind to ‘accelerate the research to developer pipeline’Projects & Open Source(00:41:59) Cosmos World Foundation Model Platform for Physical AI(00:48:21) Microsoft releases Phi-4 language model on Hugging FaceResearch & Advancements(00:50:16) PRIME: Online Reinforcement Learning with Process Rewards(00:58:29) ICLR: In-Context Learning of Representations(01:07:38) Do NOT Think That Much for 2+3=? On the Overthinking of o1-Like LLMs(01:11:44) METAGENE-1: Metagenomic Foundation Model for Pandemic Monitoring(01:15:45) TransPixar: Advancing Text-to-Video Generation with Transparency(01:18:03) The amount of compute used to train frontier models has been growing at a breakneck pace of over 4x per year since 2018, resulting in an overall scale-up of more than 10,000x! But what factors are enabling this rapid growth?Policy & Safety(01:23:45) InfAlign: Inference-aware language model alignment(01:28:44) Mark Zuckerberg gave Meta’s Llama team the OK to train on copyrighted works, filing claims(01:33:19) Anthropic gives court authority to intervene if chatbot spits out song lyrics(01:35:57) US government says companies are no longer allowed to send bulk data to these nations(01:39:10) Trump announces $20B plan to build new data centers in the US -
Our 195th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news!*and sometimes last last week's
Recorded on 01/04/2024
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Note: apologies for Andrey's slurred speech and the jumpy editing, will be back to normal next week!
Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris. Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected]
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The Generator - An interdisciplinary AI lab empowering innovators from all fields to bring visionary ideas to life by harnessing the capabilities of artificial intelligence.In this episode:
- OpenAI teases new deliberative alignment techniques in its O3 model, showcasing major improvements in reasoning benchmarks, whilst surprising with autonomy in hacks against chess engines. - Microsoft and OpenAI continue to wrangle over the terms of their partnership, highlighting tensions amid OpenAI's shift towards a for-profit model. - Chinese AI companies like DeepSeek and Quen release advanced open-source models, presenting significant contributions to AI capabilities and performance optimization. - Sakana AI introduces innovative applications of AI to the search for artificial life, emphasizing the potential and curiosity-driven outcomes of open-ended learning and exploration.
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(00:00:00) Intro / Banter(00:03:07) News Preview(00:03:54) Response to listener comments(00:05:00) Sponsor BreakTools & Apps(00:06:11) OpenAI announces new o3 model(00:21:17) Alibaba slashes prices on large language models by up to 85% as China AI rivalry heats up(00:23:04) ElevenLabs launches Flash, its fastest text-to-speech AI yetApplications & Business(00:24:24) OpenAI announces plan to transform into a for-profit company(00:33:17) Microsoft and OpenAI Wrangle Over Terms of Their Blockbuster Partnership(00:37:36) Elon Musk’s xAI gets investment from Nvidia in recent funding round: report(00:39:43) Sam Altman’s nuclear energy startup signs one of the largest nuclear power deals to date(00:41:13) OpenAI Search Leader Departs After Less Than a Year(00:42:43) Senior OpenAI Researcher Radford DepartsProjects & Open Source(00:45:21) DeepSeek-AI Just Released DeepSeek-V3: A Strong Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) Language Model with 671B Total Parameters with 37B Activated for Each Token(00:54:14) Qwen Team Releases QvQ: An Open-Weight Model for Multimodal Reasoning(00:58:09) LightOn and Answer.ai Releases ModernBERT: A New Model Series that is a Pareto Improvement over BERT with both Speed and AccuracyResearch & Advancements(01:00:31) Deliberation in Latent Space via Differentiable Cache Augmentation(01:05:14) Automating the Search for Artificial Life with Foundation ModelsPolicy & Safety(01:10:27) Nonprofit group joins Elon Musk’s effort to block OpenAI’s for-profit transition(01:14:35) OpenAI Researchers Propose 'Deliberative Alignment' : A Training Approach that Teaches LLMs to Explicitly Reason through Safety Specifications before Producing an Answer(01:22:06) o1-preview autonomously hacked its environment rather than lose to Stockfish in our chess challenge. No adversarial prompting needed.(01:27:22) Elon Musk’s xAI supercomputer gets 150MW power boost despite concerns over grid impact and local power stability(01:29:06) DOE: Data centers consumed 4.4% of US power in 2023, could hit 12% by 2028Synthetic Media & Art(01:32:20) OpenAI failed to deliver the opt-out tool it promised by 2025(01:36:15) Outro -
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Our 194th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news!*and sometimes last last week's
Recorded on 12/19/2024Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris. Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected]
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The Generator - An interdisciplinary AI lab empowering innovators from all fields to bring visionary ideas to life by harnessing the capabilities of artificial intelligence.In this episode:
- Google dominates AI news with multiple announcements, including a reasoning model and Project Mariner, an AI browsing agent. - Anthropic explores alignment faking in LLMs, revealing models may show deceptive compliance under certain conditions. - Apple observes a trend towards smaller but more efficient language models, bucking previous trends of scaling larger parameter counts. - Legal drama unfolds as Meta backs Elon Musk's opposition to OpenAI's profit status change, raising concerns about competitive fairness.
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(00:00:00) Intro / Banter(00:02:14) Response to listener comments(00:08:52) News Preview(00:10:01) Sponsor BreakTools & Apps(00:10:55) Google releases its own ‘reasoning’ AI model(00:16:52) Google Gemini can now do more in-depth research(00:21:58) Google DeepMind unveils a new video model to rival Sora(00:27:50) Pika Labs releases AI video generator 2.0 with new features(00:29:51) Google unveils Project Mariner: AI agents to use the web for you(00:34:33) X gains a faster Grok model and a new ‘Grok button’Applications & Business(00:36:11) AI GPU clusters with one million GPUs are planned for 2027 — Broadcom says three AI supercomputers are in the works(00:43:02) Meta asks the government to block OpenAI’s switch to a for-profit(00:49:36) OpenAI says Elon Musk wanted it to be for-profit in 2017(00:56:04) EQTY Lab, Intel, and NVIDIA Unveil 'Verifiable Compute,' A Solution to Secure Trusted AI(00:59:53) Liquid AI just raised $250M to develop a more efficient type of AI model(01:03:19) Hundreds of OpenAI’s current and ex-employees are about to get a huge payday by cashing out up to $10 million each in a private stock saleProjects & Open Source(01:07:45) Phi-4 Technical Report(01:13:04) DeepSeek-VL2: Mixture-of-Experts Vision-Language Models for Advanced Multimodal Understanding(01:15:23) Meta AI Releases Apollo: A New Family of Video-LMMs Large Multimodal Models for Video UnderstandingResearch & Advancements(01:16:34) Alignment faking in large language models(01:28:39) Meta AI Introduces Byte Latent Transformer (BLT): A Tokenizer-Free Model That Scales Efficiently(01:36:49) Frontier language models have become much smaller(01:42:28) The Complexity Dynamics of GrokkingPolicy & Safety(01:46:49) Homeland Security gets its very own generative AI chatbot(01:49:16) Pre-Deployment Evaluation of OpenAI’s o1 Model(01:51:35) Pricing for key chipmaking material hits 13-year high following (01:53:46) Chinese export restrictions — China's restrictions on Gallium exports hit hardSynthetic Media & ArtMeta debuts a tool for watermarking AI-generated videos(01:55:27) Outro -
Our 193rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news!*and sometimes last last week's
Note: this one was recorded on 12/13, so the news is a bit outdated... will get things back on track soon!
Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris. Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected]
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The Generator - An interdisciplinary AI lab empowering innovators from all fields to bring visionary ideas to life by harnessing the capabilities of artificial intelligence.In this episode:
- OpenAI launches Sora, a text-to-video model with significant capabilities, and Gemini 2.0 from Google showcasing agentic potential in AI tools. - Character.ai introduces a teen model to address safety concerns following two tragic incidents linked to addiction and harmful influence. - The U.S. government sets up a task force to support the rapid development of AI data centers, reflecting the critical need for robust infrastructure. - A paper from Anthropic reveals that frontier AI systems have reached the capability of self-replication, sparking discussions on future implications and safety protocols.
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(00:00:00) Intro / Banter(00:02:44) News Preview(00:03:43) Response to listener comments(00:09:50) Sponsor BreakTools & Apps(00:11:12) OpenAI has finally released Sora(00:21:16) Google Reveals Gemini 2, AI Agents, and a Prototype Personal Assistant(00:28:23) ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode adding video and screen sharing input (plus a Santa mode)(00:30:43) Microsoft’s Copilot can browse the web with you using AI ‘Vision’(00:32:31) Musk’s xAI has launched Grok image generation model(00:35:22) Cognition Labs’ AI Software Engineer Devin Launched for Subscribers(00:40:43) Apple launches its ChatGPT integration with Siri(00:43:23) Reddit’s New AI Search Tool Helps You Find Reddit Answers Without GoogleApplications & Business(00:46:35) OpenAI Aiming to Eliminate Microsoft AGI Rule to Boost Future Investment(00:53:34) GM halts funding of robotaxi development by Cruise(00:57:08) Largest AI data centre in the world to be built in northwest Alberta(01:02:36) Meta announces 4 million sq ft, 2GW Louisiana data center campus(01:05:22) Google’s future data centers will be built next to solar and wind farmsProjects & Open Source(01:08:37) Google DeepMind Just Released PaliGemma 2: A New Family of Open-Weight Vision Language Models (3B, 10B and 28B)Research & Advancements(01:13:51) Training Large Language Models to Reason in a Continuous Latent Space(01:25:37) An Evolved Universal Transformer Memory(01:31:48) APOLLO: SGD-like Memory, AdamW-level Performance(01:37:59) Clio: A system for privacy-preserving insights into real-world AI usePolicy & Safety(01:39:47) Character.AI steps up teen safety after bots allegedly caused suicide, self-harm(01:45:22) What Trump’s New AI and Crypto Czar David Sacks Means For the Tech Industry(01:49:03) Frontier AI systems have surpassed the self-replicating red line(01:53:52) Chip war: China launches antitrust probe into US semiconductor giant Nvidia in sign of escalation(01:56:53) White House Creating Task Force on AI Datacenter Infrastructure(02:00:00) US clears export of advanced AI chips to UAE under Microsoft deal, Axios says(02:02:19) Outro -
Our 192nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news!*and sometimes last last week's
Note: this one was recorded on 12/04 , so the news is a bit outdated...
Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris. Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected]
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The Generator - An interdisciplinary AI lab empowering innovators from all fields to bring visionary ideas to life by harnessing the capabilities of artificial intelligence.The AI safety book “Uncontrollable" which is not a doomer book, but instead lays out the reasonable case for AI safety and what we can do about it. Max TEGMARK said that “Uncontrollable” is a captivating, balanced, and remarkably up-to-date book on the most important issue of our time" - find it on Amazon today!In this episode:
OpenAI launches a $200 ChatGPT Pro subscription with advanced capabilities, while Amazon unveils cost-effective Nova multimodal models at the re:Invent conference.Meta releases LLAMA 3.3 70B model, showing significant gains through post-training techniques, and Alibaba introduces QWQ, a reasoning model rivaling OpenAI's O1.Amazon collaborates with Anthropic on a massive AI supercomputer project, and Black Forest Labs eyes a $200 million funding round for growth in AI tools.New research from DeepMind's Genie 2 generates interactive 3D worlds from text and images, progressing AI's understanding of world models and interactive environments.If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form.
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(00:00:00) Intro / Banter(00:02:34) Sponsor BreakTools & Apps(00:04:19) OpenAI confirms new $200 monthly subscription, which includes its o1 reasoning model(00:10:40) Amazon announces Nova, a new family of multimodal AI models(00:17:13) ElevenLabs launches GenFM to turn user content into AI-powered podcasts(00:20:21) Google’s new generative AI video model is now availableApplications & Business(00:23:56) Elon Musk files for injunction to halt OpenAI’s transition to a for-profit(00:29:40) Amazon Is Building a Mega AI Supercomputer With Anthropic(00:34:15) It Sounds an Awful Lot Like OpenAI Is Adding Ads to ChatGPT(00:38:23) A16z in Talks to Lead $200 Million Round in Black Forest Labs, Startup Behind AI Images on Grok(00:41:10) Bezos Backs AI Chipmaker Vying With Nvidia at $2.6 Billion ValueProjects & Open Source(00:45:25) Meta unveils a new, more efficient Llama model(00:50:00) Alibaba releases an ‘open’ challenger to OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model(00:55:21) DeMo: Decoupled Momentum Optimization(00:57:01) PRIME Intellect Releases INTELLECT-1 (Instruct + Base): The First 10B Parameter Language Model Collaboratively Trained Across the Globe(01:03:03) Tencent Launches HunyuanVideo, an Open-Source AI Video ModelResearch & Advancements(01:09:23) DeepMind’s Genie 2 can generate interactive worlds that look like video games(01:16:43) Language Models are Hidden Reasoners: Unlocking Latent Reasoning Capabilities via Self-Rewarding(01:20:40) Densing Law of LLMs(01:25:59) Monet: Mixture of Monosemantic Experts for TransformersPolicy & Safety(01:30:56) Commerce Strengthens Export Controls to Restrict China’s Capability to Produce Advanced Semiconductors for Military Applications(01:37:33) China retaliates against latest US chip restrictions(01:40:52) OpenAI Is Working With Anduril to Supply the US Military With AI(01:43:24) On Targeted Manipulation and Deception when Optimizing LLMs for User Feedback(01:47:52) AI Safety Researcher Quits OpenAI, Saying Its Trajectory Alarms Her(01:51:52) Meta Claims AI Content Was Less than 1% of Election Misinformation(01:55:05) Outro -
Our 191st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris. Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected]
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/.
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The Generator - An interdisciplinary AI lab empowering innovators from all fields to bring visionary ideas to life by harnessing the capabilities of artificial intelligenceIf you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form.
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(00:00:00) Intro / Banter(00:02:55) Response to listener comments(00:09:30) Sponsor BreakTools & Apps(00:10:52) OpenAI’s Sora video generator appears to have leaked(00:21:11) Mistral unleashes Pixtral Large and upgrades Le Chat into full-on ChatGPT competitor(00:26:39) Ignite 2024 introduces new AI agents and more for Microsoft 365 Copilot(00:28:50) H, the AI startup that raised $220M, launches its first product: Runner H for ‘agentic’ applications(00:31:20) Anthropic bets on personalization in the AI arms race with new ‘styles’ feature(00:33:42) ElevenLabs now offers ability to build conversational AI agents(00:37:08) Perplexity introduces a shopping feature for Pro users in the U.S.(00:38:49) Google’s Gemini chatbot now has memory(00:43:03) Suno V4 Ai Music Generator Is Out Now And It’s Very Impressive(00:46:28) Introducing FLUX.1 Tools(00:49:51) OpenAI just gave ChatGPT a major 'creativity' upgrade(00:51:26) Runway launches Frames — a new AI image generator that creates custom worldsApplications & Business(00:54:56) OpenAI Email Archives (from Musk v. Altman)(01:02:01) Amazon to invest another $4 billion in Anthropic, OpenAI's biggest rival(01:05:41) Amazon Robots Struggling to Keep Up With Human WorkersProjects & Open Source(01:11:27) DeepSeek’s first reasoning model R1-Lite-Preview turns heads, beating OpenAI o1 performance(01:15:30) OpenScholar: The open-source A.I. that’s outperforming GPT-4o in scientific researchResearch & Advancements(01:18:02) A statistical approach to model evaluations(01:22:08) Scaling Laws for Precision(01:25:10) Cerebras Delivers Record-Breaking Performance with Meta’s Llama 3.1 405B ModelPolicy & Safety(01:28:01) Sam Altman will co-chair San Francisco mayor-elect Daniel Lurie’s transition team(01:32:21) Biden’s final meeting with Xi Jinping reaps agreement on AI and nukesSynthetic Media & Art(01:33:07) How Did You Do On The AI Art Turing Test?(01:38:27) Outro -
Our 190th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news!*and sometimes last last week's
Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris. Note from Andrey: this one is coming out a bit later than planned, apologies! Next one will be coming out sooner. Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected]
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The Generator - An interdisciplinary AI lab empowering innovators from all fields to bring visionary ideas to life by harnessing the capabilities of artificial intelligenceIn this episode: * OpenAI's pitch for a $100 billion data center and AI strategy plan outlines infrastructure and regulatory needs, emphasizing AI's foundational role akin to electricity. * Google's Gemini model challenges OpenAI's dominance, showing strong performance in chatbot arenas alongside generative AI advancements. * DeepMind's AlphaFold3 gets open-sourced for academic use, while new chips from NVIDIA and Google show significant performance boosts. * Anthropic and TSMC updates highlight strategic funding, regulation influences, and the complex dynamics of AI hardware and international policy.
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(00:00:00) Intro / Banter(00:02:44) News Preview(00:03:34) Sponsor BreakTools & Apps(00:04:36) OpenAI, Google and Anthropic Are Struggling to Build More Advanced AI(00:16:22) OpenAI Nears Launch of AI Agent Tool to Automate Tasks for Users(00:19:14) Google drops new Gemini model and it goes straight to the top of the LLM leaderboard(00:19:14) Chinese AI startup takes aim at OpenAI's Sora with image-to-video tool launch(00:20:04) Introducing the Forge Reasoning API Beta and Nous Chat: An Evolution in LLM InferenceApplications & Business(00:23:47) OpenAI Discusses AI Data Center That Could Cost $100 Billion(00:26:48) Elon Musk's massive AI data center gets unlocked — xAI gets approved for 150MW of power, enabling all 100,000 GPUs to run concurrently(00:29:34) Newest Google and Nvidia Chips Speed AI Training(00:34:45) Ex-OpenAI CTO Murati’s New Team Takes Shape(00:34:45) Amazon Discussing New Multibillion-Dollar Investment in AnthropicProjects & Open Source(00:37:52) Google DeepMind open-sources AlphaFold 3, ushering in a new era for drug discovery and molecular biology(00:41:29) Near plans to build world’s largest 1.4T parameter open-source AI modelResearch & Advancements(00:45:38) The Super Weight in Large Language Models(00:55:42) Compositional Abilities Emerge Multiplicatively: Exploring Diffusion Models on a Synthetic Task(01:03:47) Mixture-of-Transformers: A Sparse and Scalable Architecture for Multi-Modal Foundation Models(01:08:14) Contextualized Evaluations: Taking the Guesswork Out of Language Model EvaluationsPolicy & Safety(01:11:14) The Code of Practice for general-purpose AI offers a unique opportunity for the EU(01:15:38) Three Sketches of ASL-4 Safety Case Components(01:23:05) U.S Department of Commerce finalizes $6.6 billion CHIPS Act funding for TSMC Fab 21 Arizona site , TSMC cannot make 2nm chips abroad now: MOEA(01:26:21) OpenAI to present plans for U.S. AI strategy and an alliance to compete with China(01:30:42) OpenAI loses another lead safety researcher, Lilian Weng(01:33:00) Outro -
Our 189th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris. Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected]
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/.
In this episode:
* OpenAI's acquisition of chat.com and internal shifts, including hardware lead hire and hardware model leaks, signal significant strategy pivots and challenges with model scaling and security. * Saudi Arabia plans a $100 billion AI initiative aiming to rival UAE's tech hub, highlighting the region's escalating AI investments. * U.S. penalties on GlobalFoundries for violating sanctions against SMIC underline ongoing challenges in enforcing AI-chip export controls. * Anthropic collaborates with Palantir and AWS to integrate CLAWD into defense environments, marking a significant policy shift for the company.
Sponsors:
The Generator - An interdisciplinary AI lab empowering innovators from all fields to bring visionary ideas to life by harnessing the capabilities of artificial intelligence.The AI safety book “Uncontrollable" which is not a doomer book, but instead lays out the reasonable case for AI safety and what we can do about it. Max TEGMARK said that “Uncontrollable” is a captivating, balanced, and remarkably up-to-date book on the most important issue of our time" - find it on Amazon today!If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form.
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(00:00:00) Intro / Banter(00:01:28) News Preview(00:02:10) Response to listener comments(00:05:02) Sponsor BreakTools & Apps(00:07:31) OpenAI Introduces ‘Predicted Outputs’ Feature: Speeding Up GPT-4o by ~5x for Tasks like Editing Docs or Refactoring Code(00:11:55) Anthropic’s Haiku 3.5 surprises experts with an “intelligence” price increase(00:17:10) Introducing FLUX1.1 [pro] Ultra and Raw Modes(00:19:11) X is testing a free version of Grok AI chatbot in select regionsApplications & Business(00:21:39) OpenAI acquired Chat.com(00:23:40) Saudis Plan $100 Billion AI Powerhouse to Rival UAE Tech Hub(00:28:28) Meta’s former hardware lead for Orion is joining OpenAI(00:31:38) OpenAI Accidentally Leaked Its Upcoming o1 Model to Anyone With a Certain Web Address(00:35:50) Nvidia Rides AI Wave to Pass Apple as World’s Largest CompanyProjects & Open Source(00:37:53) ‘Unrestricted’ AI group Nous Research launches first chatbot — with guardrails(00:41:48) FrontierMath: The Benchmark that Highlights AI’s Limits in Mathematics(00:46:29) Hunyuan-Large: An Open-Source MoE Model with 52 Billion Activated Parameters by TencentResearch & Advancements(00:49:55) Applying “Golden Gate Claude” mechanistic interpretability techniques to protein language models.(00:58:3) Relaxed Recursive Transformers: Effective Parameter Sharing with Layer-wise LoRA(01:05:55) From Naptime to Big Sleep: Using Large Language Models To Catch Vulnerabilities In Real-World Code(01:10:22) OpenAI reportedly developing new strategies to deal with AI improvement slowdownPolicy & Safety(01:19:52) What Donald Trump’s Win Means For AI(01:28:44) Fab Whack-A-Mole: Chinese Companies are Evading U.S. Sanctions(01:33:57) US fines GlobalFoundries for shipping chips to sanctioned Chinese firm(01:36:55) Anthropic teams up with Palantir and AWS to sell its AI to defense customers(01:39:23) Outro -
Our 188th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris. Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected]
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/.
This episode was sponsored by The Generator.If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form.In this episode:* Meta's open-source models utilized by China's military prompt regulatory adjustments; US agencies gain access to counterbalance. * OpenAI partners with Broadcom and AMD to develop custom AI hardware, aiming for profitability and reducing inference costs. * Physical Intelligence unveils a generalist robot control policy with a $400M funding boost, showcasing significant advancements in zero-shot task performance. * New U.S. regulation mandates quarterly reporting for large AI model training and computing cluster acquisitions, aiming to bolster national security.
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(00:00:00) Intro / Banter(00:02:16) News Preview(00:03:05) Response to listener comments / corrections(00:05:00) Sponsor BreakTools & Apps(00:06:28) OpenAI’s search engine is now live in ChatGPT(00:12:18) Image Playground, ChatGPT, and more Apple Intelligence features roll out in beta(00:14:34) GitHub Copilot will support models from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI(00:19:00) Introducing the analysis tool in Claude.ai(00:21:34) ElevenLabs Introduces Voice Design: A New AI Feature that Generates a Unique Voice from a Text Prompt Alone(00:24:18) Midjourney's new web editor lets you tweak images uploaded from your PC(00:26:02) Watch out, Midjourney — Recraft just announced new AI image generator modelApplications & Business(00:29:57) Meta strikes multi-year AI deal with Reuters(00:33:15) OpenAI will start using AMD chips and could make its own AI hardware in 2026(00:40:47) Elon Musk's xAI in talks to raise funding valuing it at $40 billion, WSJ reports(00:46:07) Physical Intelligence, a Robot A.I. Specialist, Raises Millions From Bezos(00:48:32) Waymo ramps up robotaxi push with $5.6 bn in funding(00:49:11) Alphabet's Waymo Serving Over 150,000 Paid Robotaxi Rides Every Week Now, Surging 50% In 2 MonthsProjects & Open Source(00:51:23) Meta AI Silently Releases NotebookLlama: An Open Version of Google’s NotebookLM(00:54:59) Meta Releases Quantized Llama 3.2 with 4x Inference Speed on Android Phones(00:59:16) OpenAI Releases SimpleQA: A New AI Benchmark that Measures the Factuality of Language ModelsResearch & Advancements(01:08:19) This Is a Glimpse of the Future of AI Robot(01:15:06) Can Language Models Replace Programmers? REPOCOD Says 'Not Yet'(01:19:01) Brain-like Functional Organization within Large Language Models(01:21:20) Decart’s AI simulates a real-time, playable version of Minecraft(01:25:39) Raising the bar on SWE-bench Verified with Claude 3.5 SonnetPolicy & Safety(01:29:06) Commerce just proposed the most significant federal AI regulation to date – and no one noticed(01:35:04)Anthropic warns of AI catastrophe if governments don't regulate in 18 months(01:39:32) Open Source Bites Back as China’s Military Makes Full Use of Meta AI(01:46:35) Meta says it’s making its Llama models available for US national security applications(01:48:16) Outro -
Our 187th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, now with Jeremie co-hosting once again!
Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris. Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected]
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(00:00:00) Intro / Banter(00:03:07) Response to listener comments / corrections(00:05:13) Sponsor Read)Tools & Apps(00:06:22) Anthropic’s latest AI update can use a computer on its own(00:18:09) AI video startup Genmo launches Mochi 1, an open source rival to Runway, Kling, and others(00:20:37) Canva has a shiny new text-to-image generator(00:23:35) Canvas Beta brings Remix, Extend, and Magic Fill to Ideogram users(00:26:16) StabilityAI releases Stable Diffusion 3.5 (00:28:27) Bringing Agentic Workflows into Inflection for EnterpriseApplications & Business(00:32:35) Crusoe’s $3.4B joint venture to build AI data center campus with up to 100,000 GPUs(00:39:08) Anthropic reportedly in early talks to raise new funding on up to $40B valuation(00:45:47) Longtime policy researcher Miles Brundage leaves OpenAI(00:49:53) NVIDIA’s Blackwell GB200 AI Servers Ready For Mass Deployment In December(00:52:41) Foxconn building Nvidia superchip facility in Mexico, executives say(00:55:27) xAI, Elon Musk’s AI startup, launches an APIProjects & Open Source(00:58:32) INTELLECT-1: The First Decentralized 10-Billion-Parameter AI Model Training(01:06:34) Meta FAIR Releases Eight New AI Research Artifacts—Models, Datasets, and Tools to Inspire the AI Community(01:10:02) Google DeepMind is making its AI text watermark open sourceResearch & Advancements(01:13:21) OpenAI researchers develop new model that speeds up media generation by 50X(01:17:54) How much AI compute is out there, and who owns it?(01:25:28) Rewarding Progress: Scaling Automated Process Verifiers for LLM Reasoning(01:33:30) Inference Scaling for Long-Context Retrieval Augmented GenerationPolicy & Safety(01:41:50) Announcing our updated Responsible Scaling Policy(01:48:52) Anthropic is testing AI’s capacity for sabotage(01:56:30) OpenAI asked US to approve energy-guzzling 5GW data centers, report says(02:00:05) US Probes TSMC’s Dealings with Huawei(02:03:03) TikTok owner ByteDance taps TSMC to make its own AI GPUs to stop relying on Nvidia — the company has reportedly spent over $2 billion on Nvidia AI GPUs(02:06:37) Outro -
Our 186th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov and guest host Jon Krohn from the SuperDataScience Podcast.
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(00:00:00) Intro / Banter(00:04:14) News Preview(00:05:28) Response to listener comments / correctionsTools & Apps(00:07:10) Adobe’s AI video model is here, and it’s already inside Premiere Pro(00:11:52) Adobe teases AI tools that build 3D scenes, animate text, and make distractions disappear(00:15:43) Adobe’s Project Super Sonic uses AI to generate sound effects for your videos(00:17:05) YouTube expands AI audio generation tool to all U.S. creators(00:20:29) All Gemini users can now generate images with Imagen 3(00:22:27) Meta AI will launch in six more countries today, including the UK(00:24:27) OpenAI Unveils Secret Meta Prompt—And It’s Very Different From Anthropic's ApproachApplications & Business(00:27:46) Tesla’s big ‘We, Robot’ event criticized for ‘parlor tricks’ and vague timelines for robots, Cybercab, Robovan(00:37:25) OpenAI announces content deal with Hearst, including content from Cosmopolitan, Esquire and the San Francisco ChronicleProjects & Open Source(00:47:59) OpenR: An Open-Source AI Framework Enhancing Reasoning in Large Language Models(00:49:54) MLE-bench: Evaluating Machine Learning Agents on Machine Learning Engineering(00:56:29) OpenAI Releases Swarm: An Experimental AI Framework for Building, Orchestrating, and Deploying Multi-Agent SystemsResearch & Advancements(00:59:23) Nobel Physics Prize Awarded for Pioneering A.I. Research by 2 Scientists(01:05:22) Nobel Prize in Chemistry Goes to 3 Scientists for Predicting and Creating Proteins(01:09:09) LLMs can’t perform “genuine logical reasoning,” Apple researchers suggest(01:13:05) GSM-Symbolic: Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language ModelsPolicy & Safety(01:14:34) Anthropic CEO goes full techno-optimist in 15,000-word paean to AI(01:23:04) Google will help build seven nuclear reactors to power its AI systems(01:24:11) LLMs Know More Than They Show: On the Intrinsic Representation of LLM HallucinationsSynthetic Media & Art(01:26:26) Adobe Pushes Content Authenticity Forward With a Free Web App Designed for Creators(01:29:13) Outro -
Our 185th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov and guest host Gavin Purcell from the AI for Humans podcast.
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In this episode:
Meta's MovieGen introduces innovative features in AI video generation, alongside OpenAI's real-time speech API and expanded ChatGPT capabilities.Mio's foundation model and Apple's Depth Pro enhance multimodal AI inputs and precise 3D imaging for AR, VR, and robotics.Microsoft and OpenAI's strategic advancements highlight significant financial moves and AI enhancements, including Microsoft's enhanced Copilot.AI policy discussions intensify as California's vetoed bill sparks debates on regulation, alongside Google's $1 billion investment to expand AI infrastructure in Thailand.Timestamps + Links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter(00:02:51) Response to listener comments / correctionsTools & Apps(00:03:48) Meta announces Movie Gen, an AI-powered video generator(00:14:28) OpenAI launches new ‘Canvas’ ChatGPT interface tailored to writing and coding projects(00:19:31) OpenAI’s DevDay brings Realtime API and other treats for AI app developers(00:24:43) Black Forest Labs releases Flux 1.1 Pro and an API(00:28:30) Microsoft gives Copilot a voice and vision in its biggest redesign yet(00:32:36) Pika 1.5 is now live — AI video generator just got major upgradesApplications & Business(00:37:49) OpenAI closes the largest VC round of all time(00:45:23) Google brings ads to AI Overviews as it expands AI’s role in search(00:51:05) Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma(00:51:49) OpenAI’s newest creation is raising shock, alarm, and horror among staffers: a new logo(00:53:45) Waymo to add Hyundai EVs to robotaxi fleet under new multiyear deal(00:57:28) Cerebras, an A.I. Chipmaker Trying to Take On Nvidia, Files for an I.P.O.(00:59:18) Y Combinator is being criticized after it backed an AI startup that admits it basically cloned another AI startupResearch & Advancements(01:03:30) Were RNNs All We Needed?(01:06:52) MIO: A Foundation Model on Multimodal Tokens(01:09:20) Apple releases Depth Pro, an AI model that rewrites the rules of 3D visionPolicy & Safety(01:13:08) California Governor Vetoes Sweeping A.I. Legislation(01:18:02) Judge blocks California’s new AI law in case over Kamala Harris deepfake Musk reposted(01:20:41) Google to invest $1 billion in Thailand to build a data center and accelerate AI growthSynthetic Media & Art(01:21:58) AI reading coach startup Ello now lets kids create their own stories(01:25:13) Outro -
Our 184th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov and guest host Jon Krohn.
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In this episode:
OpenAI, Meta, and Google are enhancing their AI assistants with advanced voice modes, while Meta released Llama 3.2, an open-source model capable of processing both images and text.Significant AI infrastructure developments include Grok's partnership with Aramco for a massive data center in Saudi Arabia, and Microsoft's plan to power data centers using a reopened Three Mile Island nuclear plant.Recent research shows chain-of-thought prompting is most effective for math and symbolic reasoning, while OpenAI's GPT-4 with vision capabilities is being integrated into Perplexity AI's search platform.AI is being rapidly integrated into various sectors, with examples including ChartWatch reducing unexpected hospital deaths, Snapchat and YouTube introducing AI video generation tools, and Lionsgate partnering with Runway for AI-assisted film production.Timestamps + Links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter(00:04:45) Response to listener comments / correctionsTools & Apps(00:07:46) OpenAI rolls out Advanced Voice Mode with more voices and a new look(00:13:32) Meta’s AI can now talk to you in the voices of Awkwafina, John Cena, and Judi Dench(00:17:11) Gemini’s chatty voice mode is out now for free on Android(00:21:30) AI video rivalry intensifies as Luma announces Dream Machine API hours after Runway(00:23:35) Copilot Wave 2 supercharges productivity with AI across all your Microsoft 365 apps(00:25:56) Perplexity introduces new 'Reasoning' focus powered by OpenAI's o1Applications & Business(00:33:47) OpenAI Execs Mass Quit as Company Removes Control From Non-Profit Board and Hands It to Sam Altman(00:41:46) Sam Altman departs OpenAI’s safety committee(00:43:04) Chip Startup Groq Backs Saudi AI Ambitions With Aramco Deal(00:46:29) Grok’s image generator, Black Forest Labs, is raising $100M at a $1B valuation, say sources(00:48:05) Pudu unveils super semi-humanoid robot with 8-hour battery, 10kg lift power (00:50:56) Amazon introduces Amelia, an AI assistant for third-party sellersProjects & Open Source(00:52:58) Meta Releases Llama 3.2—and Gives Its AI a Voice(00:56:52) Alibaba Unveils Ovis 1.6 – A New Multimodal Language ModelResearch & Advancements(01:00:35) To CoT or not to CoT? Chain-of-thought helps mainly on math and symbolic reasoning(01:06:14) LLMs Still Can't Plan; Can LRMs? A Preliminary Evaluation of OpenAI's o1 on PlanBench(01:10:15) Norwegian Startup 1X Unveils AI World Model for Robot Training(01:12:44) AI tool cuts unexpected deaths in hospital by 26%, Canadian study findsPolicy & Safety(01:15:47) Three Mile Island nuclear plant will reopen to power Microsoft data centers(01:18:23) Governor Newsom signs bills to combat deepfake election content(01:20:12) Governor Newsom signs bills to protect digital likeness of performers(01:22:20) Startup behind “world’s first robot lawyer” to pay $193K for false ads, FTC saysSynthetic Media & Art(01:24:49) Snap is introducing an AI video generation tool for creators(01:25:57) YouTube Shorts to integrate Veo, Google’s AI video model (01:26:56) Lionsgate Signs Deal With AI Company Runway, Hopes That AI Can Eliminate Storyboard Artists and VFX Crews(01:28:01) Outro
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Our 183rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.
Note: once again, apologies from Andrey on this one coming out late. Starting with the next one we should be back to a regular(ish) release schedule.
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In this episode:
- OpenAI's O1 and O1 mini models boast advanced reasoning and longer responses.
- Adobe adds video generation to Firefly, Anthropic launches AI safety-focused Claude enterprise.
- LLAMA3 8B excels with synthetic tokens, AI-generated ideas deemed more novel.
- New AI forecasting bot competes with veteran human forecasters.
Timestamps + Links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter(00:02:38) Response to listener comments / correctionsTools & Apps(00:04:00) OpenAI releases o1, its first model with ‘reasoning’ abilities(00:22:06) Adobe says video generation is coming to Firefly this year(00:25:27) Anthropic launches Claude Enterprise with more security, admin controls(00:27:55) Tell Replit's AI Agent Your App Idea, and It'll Code and Deploy It for YouApplications & Business(00:31:42) OpenAI Fundraising Set to Vault Startup’s Valuation to $150 Billion(00:37:03) OpenAI Hits 1 Million Paid Users For Business Versions of ChatGPT(00:39:59) TSMC Arizona achieves production yields similar to those at its fabs in Taiwan, says report(00:45:14) Japan’s Sakana AI partners Nvidia for research, raises $100MProjects & Open Source(00:47:31) The fable of Reflection 70B(00:53:08) DataGemma: Using real-world data to address AI hallucinations(00:56:31) DeepSeek-V2.5 wins praise as the new, true open source AI model leaderResearch & Advancements(01:01:35) Google DeepMind Launches AlphaProteo , an AI Model for Generating Proteins (01:08:27) Synthetic continued pretraining(01:16:55) A Large-Scale Human Study with 100+ NLP Researchers(01:23:55) Superhuman Automated ForecastingPolicy & Safety(01:28:05) OpenAI o1 System Card(01:36:58) US roll outs new export controls aimed at restricting China’s chip industry(01:39:50) Employee Call for Governor Newsom to Sign SB 1047(01:42:34) Taylor Swift says AI version of herself falsely endorsing Trump 'conjured up my fears'Synthetic Media & Art(01:44:42) YouTube is developing AI detection tools for music and faces, plus creator controls for AI training(01:45:08) Outro -
Our 182nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.
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In this episode:
- OpenAI's move into hardware production and Amazon's strategic acquisition in AI robotics. - Advances in training language models with long-context capabilities and California's pending AI regulation bill. - Strategies for safeguarding open weight LLMs against adversarial attacks and China's rise in chip manufacturing. - Sam Altman's infrastructure investment plan and debates on AI-generated art by Ted Chiang.
Timestamps + Links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter(00:05:15) Response to listener comments / correctionsTools & Apps(00:07:32) Amazon Picks Anthropic to Power Alexa 2.0(00:12:12) Forget Sora — MiniMax is a new realistic AI video generator and it’s seriously impressiveApplications & Business(00:14:56) Ilya Sutskever’s startup, Safe Superintelligence, raises $1B(00:22:20) TSMC’s A16 Process Creates a Buzz Before Mass Production, as OpenAI Reportedly Secures Capacity(00:29:13) Amazon hires the founders of AI robotics startup Covariant(00:33:33) OpenAI weighs changes to corporate structure amid latest funding talks(00:37:43) Chinese GPU-maker XCT, once valued at $2.1B, is on the verge of collapse — shareholders now suing founder(00:40:34) TSMC aims to ready next-gen silicon photonics for AI in 5 yearsProjects & Open Source(00:44:10) Alibaba releases new AI model Qwen2-VL that can analyze videos more than 20 minutes longResearch & Advancements(00:48:32) Fire-Flyer AI-HPC: A Cost-Effective Software-Hardware Co-Design for Deep Learning(00:55:52) 100M Token Context Windows(01:03:50) Smaller, Weaker, Yet Better: Training LLM Reasoners via Compute-Optimal Sampling(01:06:16) AnyGraph : An Effective and Efficient Graph Foundation Model Designed to Address the Multifaceted Challenges of Structure and Feature Heterogeneity Across Diverse Graph DatasetsPolicy & Safety(01:08:16) California Legislature Approves Bill Proposing Sweeping A.I. Restrictions(01:11:14) Tamper-Resistant Safeguards for Open-Weight LLMs(01:17:12) China's chip capabilities just 3 years behind TSMC, teardown shows(01:20:50) China Threatens to Cut Off ASML Over New US Chip Curbs(01:23:22) Altman Infrastructure Plan Aims to Spend Tens of Billions in USSynthetic Media & Art(01:26:23) NaNoWriMo is in disarray after organizers defend AI writing tools(01:28:54) Tom Hanks warns followers to be wary of 'fraudulent' ads using his likeness through AI(01:30:48) Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art(01:34:28) Outro -
Our 181st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
With hosts Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris
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In this episode:
- Google's AI advancements with Gemini 1.5 models and AI-generated avatars, along with Samsung's lithography progress. - Microsoft's Inflection usage caps for Pi, new AI inference services by Cerebrus Systems competing with Nvidia. - Biases in AI, prompt leak attacks, and transparency in models and distributed training optimizations, including the 'distro' optimizer. - AI regulation discussions including California’s SB1047, China's AI safety stance, and new export restrictions impacting Nvidia’s AI chips.
Timestamps + Links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter(00:03:08)Response to listener comments / correctionsTools & Apps(00:09:19) Google’s custom AI chatbots have arrived(00:12:52) Google releases three new experimental AI models(00:17:14) Google Gemini will let you create AI-generated people again(00:22:32) Five months after Microsoft hired its founders, Inflection adds usage caps to Pi(00:26:42:) Plaud takes a crack at a simpler AI pinApplications & Business(00:30:31) Cerebras Systems throws down gauntlet to Nvidia with launch of ‘world’s fastest’ AI inference service(00:41:06) Nvidia announces $50 billion stock buyback(00:46:24) OpenAI in talks to raise funding that would value it at more than $100 billion(00:50:44) OpenAI Aims to Release New AI Model, ‘Strawberry,’ in Fall(00:52:53) 3 Co-Founders Leave French AI Startup H Amid ‘Operational Differences’(00:57:29) Samsung to Adopt High-NA Lithography Alongside Intel, Ahead of TSMC(01:02:11) Unitree's $16,000 G1 could become the first mainstream humanoid robotProjects & Open Source(01:04:59) Meta leads open-source AI boom, Llama downloads surge 10x year-over-year(01:09:08) A_Preliminary_Report_on_DisTrO.Research & Advancements(01:13:56) Diffusion Models Are Real-Time Game Engines(01:23:18) LLM Defenses Are Not Robust to Multi-Turn Human Jailbreaks Yet(01:32:21) Interviewing AI researchers on automation of AI R&D(01:40:33) Anthropic releases AI model system prompts, winning praise for transparencyPolicy & Safety(01:47:12) U.S. AI Safety Institute Signs Agreements Regarding AI Safety Research, Testing and Evaluation With Anthropic and OpenAI(01:50:46) China’s Views on AI Safety Are Changing—Quickly(01:56:27) Poll: 7 in 10 Californians Support SB1047, Will Blame Governor Newsom for AI-Enabled Catastrophe if He Vetoes(02:01:31) Elon Musk voices support for California bill requiring safety tests on AI models(02:03:55) Chinese Engineers Reportedly Accessing NVIDIA’s High-End AI Chips Through Decentralized “GPU Rental Services”(02:08:25) U.S. gov't tightens China restrictions on supercomputer component salesSynthetic Media & Art(02:11:13) Actors Say AI Voice-Over Generator ElevenLabs Cloned Likenesses(02:14:06) Outro -
Our 180th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)
If you would like to get a sneak peek and help test Andrey's generative AI application, go to Astrocade.com to join the waitlist and the discord.
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Episode Highlights:
Ideogram AI's new features, Google's Imagine 3, Dream Machine 1.5, and Runway's Gen3 Alpha Turbo model advancements.Perplexity's integration of Flux image generation models and code interpreter updates for enhanced search results. Exploration of the feasibility and investment needed for scaling advanced AI models like GPT-4 and Agent Q architecture enhancements.Analysis of California's AI regulation bill SB1047 and legal issues related to synthetic media, copyright, and online personhood credentials.Timestamps + Links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter(00:01:08) Response to Listener Comments / CorrectionsTools & Apps(00:03:58) Ideogram AI expands its features with v2 model and color palette options(00:07:48) Google Releases Powerful AI Image Generator You Can Use for Free(00:11:41) Perplexity adds Flux.1 model for Pro users alongside Playground v3 update(00:13:58) Luma drops Dream Machine 1.5 — here’s what’s new(00:17:49) Runway’s Gen-3 Alpha Turbo is here and can make AI videos faster than you can type(00:20:21) Perplexity’s latest update improves code interpreter, charts includedApplications & Business(00:24:14) AMD buying server maker ZT Systems for $4.9 billion as chipmakers strengthen AI capabilities(00:28:55) Ars Technica content is now available in OpenAI services(00:34:08) Anysphere, a GitHub Copilot rival, has raised $60M Series A at $400M valuation from a16z, Thrive, sources say00:38:32 Stability AI appoints new Chief Technology Officer(00:41:45) Cruise’s robotaxis are coming to the Uber app in 2025Projects & Open Source(00:44:16) AI21 Introduces the Jamba Model Family: The most powerful and efficient long-context models for the enterprise(00:53:47) Microsoft reveals Phi-3.5 — this new small AI model outperforms Gemini and GPT-4o(00:57:33) Nvidia’s Llama-3.1-Minitron 4B is a small language model that punches above its weight(01:00:58) Open source Dracarys models ignite generative AI fired codingResearch & Advancements(01:12:35) Can AI Scaling Continue Through 2030?(01:15:35) Agent Q: Advanced Reasoning and Learning for Autonomous AI Agents(01:23:58) Transformers to SSMs: Distilling Quadratic Knowledge to Subquadratic Models(01:31:18) Loss of plasticity in deep continual learningPolicy & Safety(01:38:20) California weakens bill to prevent AI disasters before final vote, taking advice from Anthropic(01:48:14) Personhood credentials: Artificial intelligence and the value of privacy-preserving tools to distinguish who is real online(01:52:44) Showing SAE Latents Are Not Atomic Using Meta-SAEsSynthetic Media & Art(01:58:33) Authors sue Claude AI chatbot creator Anthropic for copyright infringement(01:59:32) Artists’ lawsuit against Stability AI and Midjourney gets more punch(02:01:43) Outro -
Our 179th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)
If you would like to get a sneak peek and help test Andrey's generative AI application, go to Astrocade.com to join the waitlist and the discord.
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Episode Highlights:
- Grok 2's beta release features new image generation using Black Forest Labs' tech.
- Google introduces Gemini Voice Chat Mode available to subscribers and integrates it into Pixel Buds Pro 2.
- Huawei's Ascend 910C AI chip aims to rival NVIDIA's H100 amidst US export controls.
- Overview of potential risks of unaligned AI models and skepticism around SingularityNet's AGI supercomputer claims.
Timestamps + Links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter(00:02:15) Response to listener comments / correctionsTools & Apps(00:04:24) Grok-2 is out in beta, now with added AI image generation(00:11:28) OpenAI reveals an updated GPT-4o model - but can't quite explain how it's better(00:13:48) Google Gemini’s voice chat mode is here(00:16:18) Google’s Pixel Buds Pro 2 bring Gemini to your ears(00:19:55) Google’s AI-generated search summaries change how they show their sources(00:23:13) Prompt Caching is Now Available on the Anthropic API for Specific Claude ModelsApplications & Business(00:26:56) Meet Black Forest Labs, the startup powering Elon Musk’s unhinged AI image generator(00:26:56) Huawei readies new AI chip to challenge Nvidia in China, WSJ reports(00:37:53) ASML and Imec Announce High-NA Lithography Breakthrough(00:43:07) Chinese startup WeRide gets nod to test robotaxis with passengers in California(00:45:49) Perplexity’s popularity surges as AI search start-up takes on Google(00:51:55) Lisa Su formally welcomes Silo AI team to AMD after completing $665 million acquisitionProjects & Open Source(00:54:31) FalconMamba 7B Released: The World’s First Attention-Free AI Model with 5500GT Training Data and 7 Billion Parameters(00:59:25) OpenAI has introduced SWE-bench Verified to evaluate AI performance(01:04:21) Nous Research presents Hermes 3(01:11:07) New supercomputing network could lead to AGI, scientists hope, with 1st node coming online within weeksResearch & Advancements(01:14:40) The AI Scientist: Towards Fully Automated Open-Ended Scientific Discovery(01:30:24) Imagen 3(01:32:48) The Data Addition Dilemma(01:37:35) LongWriter: Unleashing 10,000+ Word Generation from Long Context LLMsPolicy & Safety(01:40:55) MIT researchers release a repository of AI risks(01:44:14) Elon Musk addresses power issues at xAI supercomputer facility in Memphis(01:46:52) FCC Proposes New Rules on AI-Powered RobocallsGovernments Adjust Policies Amid Flood of AI Record RequestsSynthetic Media & Art(01:48:21) SAG-AFTRA Strikes Groundbreaking AI Digital Voice Replica Pact With Startup Firm Narrativ(01:51:52) How ‘Deepfake Elon Musk’ Became the Internet’s Biggest Scammer(01:56:21) AI Song Outro -
Our 178th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
NOTE: this is a re-upload with fixed audio, my bad on the last one! - Andrey
With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)
If you would like to get a sneak peek and help test Andrey's generative AI application, go to Astrocade.com to join the waitlist and the discord.
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In this episode:- Notable personnel movements and product updates, such as Character.ai leaders joining Google and new AI features in Reddit and Audible.- OpenAI's dramatic changes with co-founder exits, extended leaves, and new lawsuits from Elon Musk.- Rapid advancements in humanoid robotics exemplified by new models from companies like Figure in partnership with OpenAI, achieving amateur-level human performance in tasks like table tennis.- Research advancements such as Google's compute-efficient inference models and self-compressing neural networks, showcasing significant reductions in compute requirements while maintaining performance.
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(00:00:00) Intro / Banter(00:03:14) Response to listener comments / correctionsApplications & Business(00:06:56) Google’s hiring of Character.AI’s founders is the latest sign that part of the AI startup world is starting to implode(00:15:12) Investors in Adept AI will be paid back after Amazon hires startup’s top talent(00:22:36) AI chip start-up Groq’s value rises to $2.8bn as it takes on Nvidia(00:29:22) OpenAI co-founder Schulman leaves for Anthropic, Brockman takes extended leave(00:36:18) Elon Musk files new lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman(00:41:40) Figure’s new humanoid robot leverages OpenAI for natural speech conversations(00:47:01) ASML, Tokyo Electron dodge new US chip export rules, for now(00:53:10) OpenAI reportedly leads $60M round for webcam startup OpalTools & Apps(00:55:40) OpenAI cuts GPT-4o prices, launches Structured Outputs amidst price war with Google(01:02:08) Apple Intelligence could get a $20 Plus version(01:04:05) Audible is testing an AI-powered search feature (01:05:53) Reddit to test AI-powered search result pagesResearch & Advancements(01:06:35) Scaling LLM Test-Time Compute Optimally can be More Effective than Scaling Model Parameters(01:16:27) Achieving Human Level Competitive Robot Table Tennis(01:20:19) Self-Compressing Neural Networks(01:28:30) Let Me Speak Freely? A Study on the Impact of Format Restrictions on Performance of Large Language Models(01:32:43) Berkeley Humanoid: A Research Platform for Learning-based ControlPolicy & Safety(01:33:35) METR announces results of study on comparative capabilities of humans and agents(01:39:35) ‘The Godmother of AI’ says California’s well-intended AI bill will harm the U.S. ecosystem(01:49:13) Google Monopolized Search Through Illegal Deals, Judge Rules(01:54:56) Amazon faces UK merger probe over $4B Anthropic AI investment(01:55:44) GPT-4o System Card(02:03:09) Outro -
Our 177th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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In this episode, hosts Andrey Kurenkov and Jon Krohn dive into significant updates and discussions in the AI world, including Instagram's new AI features, Waymo's driverless cars rollout in San Francisco, and NVIDIA’s chip delays. They also review Meta's AI Studio, character.ai CEO Noam Shazir's return to Google, and Google's Gemini updates. Additional topics cover NVIDIA's hardware issues, advancements in humanoid robots, and new open-source AI tools like Open Devon. Policy discussions touch on the EU AI Act, the U.S. stance on open-source AI, and investigations into Google and Anthropic. The impact of misinformation via deepfakes, particularly one involving Elon Musk, is also highlighted, all emphasizing significant industry effects and regulatory implications.
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(00:00:00) AI Song / Intro Banter(00:05:32) Response to listener comments / correctionsTools & Apps(00:10:16) Apple Intelligence to Miss Initial Launch of Upcoming iOS 18 Overhaul(00:16:35) Instagram starts letting people create AI versions of themselvesLighting round(00:22:49) Runway just dropped image-to-video in Gen3(00:25:41) Midjourney drops surprise v6.1 update — now humans look more real than ever(00:28:07) AI-Powered Necklace Will Be Your Friend for $99(00:30:06) Microsoft is adding AI-powered summaries to Bing search resultsApplications & Business(00:31:44) Character.AI CEO Noam Shazeer returns to Google(00:39:41) Perplexity is cutting checks to publishers following plagiarism accusationsLighting round(00:43:30) Nvidia reportedly delays its next AI chip due to a design flaw(00:41:08) Neura shows off humanoid robot 4NE-1(00:46:0) Yes, there are more driverless Waymos in S.F. Here’s how busy they are(00:57:27) Canva acquires Leonardo.ai to boost its generative AI effortsProjects & Open Source(00:59:19) Black Forest Labs Open-Source FLUX.1: A 12 Billion Parameter Rectified Flow Transformer Capable of Generating Images from Text Descriptions(01:01:59) Google releases new ‘open’ AI models with a focus on safetyLighting round(01:05:09) Stability AI releases super-fast model for 3D asset image generation(01:09:29) OpenDevin: An Open Platform for AI Software Developers as Generalist AgentsResearch & Advancements(01:12:10) Meta AI Introduces Meta Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2): The First Unified Model for Segmenting Objects Across Images and Videos(01:19:20) MoMa: Efficient Early-Fusion Pre-training with Mixture of Modality-Aware ExpertsLighting round(01:25:00) AssistantBench: Can Web Agents Solve Realistic and Time-Consuming Tasks?(01:26:19) Trust or Escalate: LLM Judges with Provable Guarantees for Human Agreement(01:31:15) Stretching Each Dollar: Diffusion Training from Scratch on a Micro-BudgetPolicy & Safety(01:33:03) World's First-Ever AI Law Now Enforced in Europe, Targeting US Tech Giants(01:39:12) White House says no need to restrict ‘open-source’ artificial intelligence — at least for nowLighting round(01:41:12) With Smugglers and Front Companies, China Is Skirting American A.I. Bans(01:44:03) UK antitrust body probes Google’s ties with AI rival Anthropic(01:45:20) Elon Musk posts deepfake of Kamala Harris that violates X policy(01:50:10) AI Outro - Mostrar mais
