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Note: this one was recorded on 12/04 , so the news is a bit outdated...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]

Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/.

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!

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.

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Timestamps + Links:

• (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
• (00:02:34) Sponsor Break
• Tools & 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 available
• Applications & 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 Value
• Projects & 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 Model
• Research & 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 Transformers
• Policy & 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/.

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
  

If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form.

Timestamps + Links:

• (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
• (00:02:55) Response to listener comments
• (00:09:30) Sponsor Break
• Tools & 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 worlds
• Applications & 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 Workers
• Projects & 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 research
• Research & 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 Model
• Policy & 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 nukes
• Synthetic 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]

Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/.

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
  

In 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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Timestamps + Links:

• (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
• (00:02:44) News Preview
• (00:03:34) Sponsor Break
• Tools & 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 Inference
• Applications & 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 Anthropic
• Projects & 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 model
• Research & 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 Evaluations
• Policy & 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!

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Timestamps + Links:

• (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
• (00:01:28) News Preview
• (00:02:10) Response to listener comments
• (00:05:02) Sponsor Break
• Tools & 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 regions
• Applications & 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 Company
• Projects & 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 Tencent
• Research & 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 slowdown
• Policy & 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.

Timestamps + Links:

• (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
• (00:02:16) News Preview
• (00:03:05) Response to listener comments / corrections
• (00:05:00) Sponsor Break
• Tools & 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 model
• Applications & 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 Months
• Projects & 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 Models
• Research & 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 Sonnet
• Policy & 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]

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.

Timestamps + Links:

• (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 Enterprise
• Applications & 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 API
• Projects & 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 source
• Research & 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 Generation
• Policy & 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.

Check out Jon’s upcoming agent-focused event here - AI Catalyst: Agentic Artificial Intelligence

Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/.

If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form.

Email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected]

Timestamps + Links:

• (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
• (00:04:14) News Preview
• (00:05:28) Response to listener comments / corrections
• Tools & 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 Approach
• Applications & 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 Chronicle
• Projects & 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 Systems
• Research & 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 Models
• Policy & 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 Hallucinations
• Synthetic 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.

Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/.

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Email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected]

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 / corrections
• Tools & 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 upgrades
• Applications & 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 startup
• Research & 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 vision
• Policy & 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 growth
• Synthetic 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.

Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/.

If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form.

Email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected]

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 / corrections
• Tools & 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 o1
• Applications & 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 sellers
• Projects & 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 Model
• Research & 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 finds
• Policy & 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 says
• Synthetic 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

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 / corrections
• Tools & 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 You
• Applications & 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 $100M
• Projects & 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 leader
• Research & 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 Forecasting
• Policy & 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 / corrections

• Tools & 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 impressive
• Applications & 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 years
• Projects & Open Source
  • (00:44:10) Alibaba releases new AI model Qwen2-VL that can analyze videos more than 20 minutes long
• Research & 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 Datasets
• Policy & 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 US
• Synthetic 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