Last Week in AI

Last Week in AI

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Weekly summaries of the AI news that matters!

1 hour 23 minutes

#197 - AI in Gmail+Docs, MiniMax-01, Titans, Transformer^2
Our 197th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Recorded on 01/17/2024

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Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and guest-hosted by the folks from Latent Space

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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:

- Google and Mistral sign deals with AP and AFP, respectively, to deliver up-to-date news through their AI platforms.
- ChatGPT introduces a tasks feature for reminders and to-dos, positioning itself more as a personal assistant.
- Synthesia raises $180 million to enhance its AI video platform for generating videos of human avatars.
- New U.S. guidelines restrict exporting AI chips to various countries, impacting Nvidia and other tech firms.

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Timestamps + Links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- (00:04:29) News Preview
- (00:05:09) Response to listener comments
- (00:05:58) Sponsor Break
- Tools & Apps
  - (00:07:01) Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free — but raising the price of Workspace
  - (00:07:52) Microsoft relaunches Copilot for business with free AI chat and pay-as-you-go agents
  - (00:12:36) Google signs deal with AP to deliver up-to-date news through its Gemini AI chatbot
  - (00:18:08) Mistral signs deal with AFP to offer up-to-date answers in Le Chat
  - (00:18:45) ChatGPT can now handle reminders and to-dos
- Applications & Business
  - (00:22:53) Palmer Luckey’s AI Defense Company Anduril Is Building a $1 Billion Plant in Ohio
  - (00:28:36) OpenAI is bankrolling Axios’ expansion into four new markets
  - (00:29:39) AI researcher François Chollet founds a new AI lab focused on AGI
  - (00:32:18) Nvidia-backed AI video platform Synthesia doubles valuation to $2.1 billion
  - (00:34:46) Anysphere Raises $105M in Series B
  - (00:40:14) Harvey Valuation of 3 Billion
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
  - (00:57:03) Titans: Learning to Memorize at Test Time
  - (01:04:38) Transformer2: Self-adaptive LLMs
  - (01:08:15) Inference-Time Scaling for Diffusion Models beyond Scaling Denoising Steps
- Policy & Safety
- Synthetic Media & Art
  - (01:17:55) In AI copyright case, Zuckerberg turns to YouTube for his defense
- (01:19:53) Outro
20 January 2025, 10:50 pm
1 hour 46 minutes

#196 - Nvidia Digits, Cosmos, PRIME, ICLR, InfAlign
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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Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.
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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:

- 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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Timestamps + Links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- (00:04:52) Sponsor Break
- Tools & 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
- 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 Face
- Research & Advancements
- Policy & Safety
13 January 2025, 9:34 am
1 hour 39 minutes

#195 - OpenAI o3 & for-profit, DeepSeek-V3, Latent Space
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]

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 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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Timestamps + Links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- (00:03:07) News Preview
- (00:03:54) Response to listener comments
- (00:05:00) Sponsor Break
- Tools & 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 yet
- Applications & 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 Departs
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
  - (01:00:31) Deliberation in Latent Space via Differentiable Cache Augmentation
  - (01:05:14) Automating the Search for Artificial Life with Foundation Models
- Policy & Safety
- Synthetic Media & Art
  - (01:32:20) OpenAI failed to deliver the opt-out tool it promised by 2025
- (01:36:15) Outro
5 January 2025, 7:59 pm
1 hour 59 minutes

#194 - Gemini Reasoning, Veo 2, Meta vs OpenAI, Fake Alignment
Our 194th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news!
*and sometimes last last week's

Recorded on 12/19/2024
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.
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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Timestamps + Links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- (00:02:14) Response to listener comments
- (00:08:52) News Preview
- (00:10:01) Sponsor Break
- Tools & 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
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & 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 Grokking
- Policy & 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 hard
- Synthetic Media & Art
  - Meta debuts a tool for watermarking AI-generated videos
- (01:55:27) Outro
30 December 2024, 11:45 pm
2 hours 5 minutes

#193 - Sora release, Gemini 2, OpenAI's AGI Rule, US AI Czar
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]

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 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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Timestamps + Links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- (00:02:44) News Preview
- (00:03:43) Response to listener comments
- (00:09:50) Sponsor Break
- Tools & 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 Google
- Applications & 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 farms
- Projects & 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 use
- Policy & Safety
- (02:02:19) Outro
23 December 2024, 6:08 pm
1 hour 58 minutes

#192 - ChatGPT Pro, Amazon Nova, GenFM, Llama 3.3, Genie 2
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
- (01:55:05) Outro
16 December 2024, 5:19 am
1 hour 42 minutes

#191 - Sora leak, Pixtral Large, OpenAI email archives
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
5 December 2024, 5:06 am
1 hour 37 minutes

#190 - AI scaling struggles, OpenAI Agents, Super Weights
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
- 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
- Policy & Safety
- (01:33:00) Outro
28 November 2024, 5:27 am
1 hour 42 minutes

#189 - Chat.com, FrontierMath, Relaxed Transformers, Trump & AI
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.

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
- 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
- Research & Advancements
- 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
17 November 2024, 11:16 pm
1 hour 51 minutes

#188 - ChatGPT+Search, OpenAI+AMD, SimpleQA, π0
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
- 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
- (01:48:16) Outro
8 November 2024, 8:13 pm
2 hours 9 minutes

#187 - Anthropic Agents, Mochi1, 3.4B data center, OpenAI's FAST image gen
Our 187th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, now with Jeremie co-hosting once again!

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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
- 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
- (02:06:37) Outro
28 October 2024, 4:49 pm
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