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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
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/
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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.
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(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 -
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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.
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]
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.
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/
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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.
Timestamps + Links:
(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!
With guest co-host Jon Krohn from the super data science podcast (https://www.superdatascience.com/podcast)!
If you'd like to listen to the interview with Andrey, check out https://www.superdatascience.com/podcast
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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 -
Our 176th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
NOTE: apologies for this episode coming out about a week late, things got in the way of editing it...
With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/
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(00:00:00) Intro Song(00:00:34) Intro BanterTools & Apps(00:03:39) OpenAI announces SearchGPT, its AI-powered search engine(00:08:03) Google gives free Gemini users access to its faster, lighter 1.5 Flash AI model(00:09:10) X launches underwhelming Grok-powered ‘More About This Account’ feature(00:11:36) Kuaishou Launches Full Beta Testing for 'Kling AI' to Global Users, Elevates Model Capabilities(00:13:39) Adobe rolls out more generative AI features to Illustrator and Photoshop(00:14:25) Meta AI gets new ‘Imagine me’ selfie featureProjects & Open Source(00:15:19) Meta releases open-source AI model it says rivals OpenAI, Google tech(00:28:23) Mistral AI Unveils Mistral Large 2, Beats Llama 3.1 on Code and Math(00:34:00) Groq’s open-source Llama AI model tops leaderboard, outperforming GPT-4o and Claude in function calling(00:36:35) Apple shows off open AI prowess: new models outperform Mistral and Hugging Face offeringsApplications & Business(00:40:25) Elon Musk wants Tesla to invest $5 billion into his newest startup, xAI — if shareholders approve(00:43:01) Nvidia said to be prepping Blackwell GPUs for Chinese market(00:46:28) Toronto AI company Cohere to indemnify customers who are sued for any copyright violations(00:49:09) AI startup Cohere raises US$500-million, valuing company at US$5.5-billionResearch & Advancements(00:52:01) AI achieves silver-medal standard solving International Mathematical Olympiad problems(00:56:47) A Multimodal Automated Interpretability Agent(01:00:56) MINT-1T: Scaling Open-Source Multimodal Data by 10x: A Multimodal Dataset with One Trillion TokensPolicy & Safety(01:02:56) Improving Model Safety Behavior with Rule-Based Rewards(01:06:39) Senators demand OpenAI detail efforts to make its AI safe(01:10:59) OpenAI reassigns top AI safety executive Aleksandr Madry to role focused on AI reasoning(01:13:08) As new tech threatens jobs, Silicon Valley promotes no-strings cash aid(01:17:33) Democratic senators seek to reverse Supreme Court ruling that restricts federal agency powerSynthetic Media & Art(01:20:58) Video game performers will go on strike over artificial intelligence concerns(01:23:03) Outro(01:23:58) AI Song -
Our 175th 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)
In this episode of Last Week in AI, hosts Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremy Harris explore recent AI advancements including OpenAI's release of GPT 4.0 Mini and Mistral’s open-source models, covering their impacts on affordability and performance. They delve into enterprise tools for compliance, text-to-video models like Hyper 1.5, and YouTube Music enhancements. The conversation further addresses AI research topics such as the benefits of numerous small expert models, novel benchmarking techniques, and advanced AI reasoning. Policy issues including U.S. export controls on AI technology to China and internal controversies at OpenAI are also discussed, alongside Elon Musk's supercomputer ambitions and OpenAI’s Prover-Verify Games initiative.Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/
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Timestamps + links:
(00:00:00) AI Song Intro(00:00:40) Intro / BanterTools & Apps(00:03:57) OpenAI unveils GPT-4o mini, a small AI model powering ChatGPT(00:11:38) Meet Haiper 1.5, the new AI video generation model challenging Sora, Runway(00:16:32) Anthropic releases Claude app for Android(00:18:59) Google Vids is available to test out Gemini AI-created video presentations(00:20:27) YouTube Music sound search rolling out, AI ‘conversational radio’ in testing Applications & Business(00:23:30) OpenAI working on new reasoning technology under code name ‘Strawberry’(00:30:45) Inside Elon Musk’s Mad Dash To Build A Giant xAI Supercomputer In Memphis(00:37:15) Apple, NVIDIA and Anthropic reportedly used YouTube transcripts without permission to train AI models(00:41:05) After Tesla and OpenAI, Andrej Karpathy’s startup aims to apply AI assistants to education(00:43:40) Menlo Ventures and Anthropic team up on a $100M AI fundProjects & Open Source(00:46:27) Mistral releases Codestral Mamba for faster, longer code generation(00:50:36) Mistral AI and NVIDIA Unveil Mistral NeMo 12B, a Cutting-Edge Enterprise AI Model(00:52:51) Hugging Face Releases SmoLLM, a Series of Small Language Models, Beats Qwen2 and Phi 1.5(00:56:11) Stable Diffusion 3 License Revamped Amid Blowback, Promising Better ModelResearch & Advancements(01:01:49) FlashAttention-3 unleashes the power of H100 GPUs for LLMs(01:06:38) Mixture of A Million Experts(01:12:51) AutoBencher: Creating Salient, Novel, Difficult Datasets for Language Models(01:18:23) SpreadsheetLLM: Encoding Spreadsheets for Large Language >ModelsPolicy & Safety(01:20:50) Prover-Verifier Games improve legibility of language model outputs(01:28:05) Trump allies draft AI order to launch ‘Manhattan Projects’ for defense(01:34:40) On scalable oversight with weak LLMs judging strong LLMs(01:36:24) Google, Microsoft offer Nvidia chips to Chinese companies, the Information reports(01:38:26) U.S. planning 'draconian' sanctions against China's semiconductor industry: Report(01:48:47) OpenAI illegally barred staff from airing safety risks, whistleblowers say(01:44:59) Outro + AI Song -
Our 174rd 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)
In this episode of Last Week in AI, we delve into the latest advancements and challenges in the AI industry, highlighting new features from Figma and Quora, regulatory pressures on OpenAI, and significant investments in AI infrastructure. Key topics include AMD's acquisition of Silo AI, Elon Musk's GPU cluster plans for XAI, unique AI model training methods, and the nuances of AI copying and memory constraints. We discuss developments in AI's visual perception, real-time knowledge updates, and the need for transparency and regulation in AI content labeling and licensing.
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(00:00:00) Intro AI Song(00:00:41) Pre News BanterTools & Apps(00:07:09) Odyssey Building 'Hollywood-Grade' AI Text-to-Video Model to Compete With Sora, Gen-3 Alpha(00:10:28) Anthropic’s Claude adds a prompt playground to quickly improve your AI apps(00:15:06) Figma pauses its new AI feature after Apple controversy(00:18:30) Quora’s Poe now lets users create and share web apps(00:20:54) Suno launches iPhone app — now you can make AI music on the goApplications & Business(00:21:42) Groq unveils lightning-fast LLM engine; developer base rockets past 280K in 4 months(00:27:03) Microsoft and Apple ditch OpenAI board seats amid regulatory scrutiny(00:29:39) OpenAI and Arianna Huffington are working together on an ‘AI health coach’(00:33:38) AI coding startup Magic seeks $1.5-billion valuation in new funding round, sources say(00:37:01) Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz Clash Over AI Chip Supplies Amid Gen AI Boom(00:43:30) Elon Musk Reveals Plans To Make World’s “Most Powerful” 100,000 NVIDIA GPU AI Cluster(00:46:25) AMD plans to acquire Silo AI in $665 million deal(00:48:00) AI robotics startup raises US$300 million, including from Jeff Bezos(00:52:11) Intel begins groundwork on Magdeburg chip fab despite 13 remaining regulatory and environmental objectionsResearch & Advancements(00:55:21) Learning to (Learn at Test Time): RNNs with Expressive Hidden States(01:03:12) Data curation via joint example selection further accelerates multimodal learning(01:09:11) CopyBench: Measuring Literal and Non-Literal Reproduction of Copyright-Protected Text in Language Model Generation(01:13:25) Just read twice: closing the recall gap for recurrent language models(01:15:25) CodeUpdateArena: Benchmarking Knowledge Editing on API Updates(01:18:31) Composable Interventions for Language Models(01:24:09) Mind-reading AI recreates what you're looking at with amazing accuracyPolicy & Safety(01:26:49) Covert Malicious Finetuning(01:31:23) OpenAI’s week of security issues(01:36:39) Here’s how OpenAI will determine how powerful its AI systems are(01:39:56) Me, Myself and AI: The Situational Awareness Dataset for LLMs(01:44:34) Exclusive: OpenAI partners with Los Alamos to study AI in the lab(01:47:36) Judge dismisses coders’ DMCA claims against Microsoft, OpenAI and GitHub(01:49:55) A former OpenAI safety employee said he quit because the company's leaders were 'building the Titanic' and wanted 'newer, shinier' things to sellSynthetic Media & Art(01:52:46) Vimeo joins YouTube and TikTok in launching new AI content labels(01:54:50) Tech Startup Aims to Help Media License Content for AI Training(01:57:23) Etsy adds AI-generated item guidelines in new seller policy (01:59:44) Bumble users can now report profiles that use AI-generated photos(02:02:05) Outro + AI Song -
Our 173rd 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)
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In this episode of Last Week in AI, we explore the latest advancements and debates in the AI field, including Google's release of Gemini 1.5, Meta's upcoming LLaMA 3, and Runway's Gen 3 Alpha video model. We discuss emerging AI features, legal disputes over data usage, and China's competition in AI. The conversation spans innovative research developments, cost considerations of AI architectures, and policy changes like the U.S. Supreme Court striking down Chevron deference. We also cover U.S. export controls on AI chips to China, workforce development in the semiconductor industry, and Bridgewater's new AI-driven financial fund, evaluating the broader financial and regulatory impacts of AI technologies.Timestamps + links:
(00:00:00) Intro / BanterTools & Apps(00:03:24) Google opens up Gemini 1.5 Flash, Pro with 2M tokens to the public(00:08:47) Meta is about to launch its biggest Llama model yet — here’s why it’s a big deal(00:12:38) Runway’s Gen-3 Alpha AI video model now available – but there’s a catch(00:16:28) This is Google AI, and it's coming to the Pixel 9(00:17:30) AI Firm ElevenLabs Sets Audio Reader Pact With Judy Garland, James Dean, Burt Reynolds and Laurence Olivier Estates(00:20:06) Perplexity’s ‘Pro Search’ AI upgrade makes it better at math and research(00:23:12) Gemini’s data-analyzing abilities aren’t as good as Google claimsApplications & Business(00:26:38) Quora’s Chatbot Platform Poe Allows Users to Download Paywalled Articles on Demand(00:32:04) Huawei and Wuhan Xinxin to develop high-bandwidth memory chips amid US restrictions(00:34:57) Alibaba’s large language model tops global ranking of AI developer platform Hugging Face(00:39:01) Here comes a Meta Ray-Bans challenger with ChatGPT-4o and a camera(00:43:35) Apple’s Phil Schiller is reportedly joining OpenAI’s board(00:47:26) AI Video Startup Runway Looking to Raise $450 MillionProjects & Open Source(00:48:10) Kyutai Open Sources Moshi: A Real-Time Native Multimodal Foundation AI Model that can Listen and Speak(00:50:44) MMEvalPro: Calibrating Multimodal Benchmarks Towards Trustworthy and Efficient Evaluation(00:53:47) Anthropic Pushes for Third-Party AI Model Evaluations(00:57:29) Mozilla Llamafile, Builders Projects Shine at AI Engineers World's FairResearch & Advancements(00:59:26) Researchers upend AI status quo by eliminating matrix multiplication in LLMs(01:05:55) AI Agents That Matter(01:12:09) WARP: On the Benefits of Weight Averaged Rewarded Policies(01:17:20) Scaling Synthetic Data Creation with 1,000,000,000 Personas(01:24:16) Found in the Middle: Calibrating Positional Attention Bias Improves Long Context UtilizationPolicy & Safety(01:26:32) With Chevron’s demise, AI regulation seems dead in the water(01:33:40) Nvidia to make $12bn from AI chips in China this year despite US controls(01:37:52) Uncle Sam relies on manual processes to oversee restrictions on Huawei, other Chinese tech players(01:40:57) U.S. government addresses critical workforce shortages for the semiconductor industry with new program(01:42:42) Bridgewater starts $2 billion fund that uses machine learning for decision-making and will include models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Perplexity(01:47:57) Outro -
Our 172nd 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)
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(00:00:00) Intro / BanterTools & Apps(00:03:02) Anthropic Debuts Collaboration Tools for Claude AI Assistant(00:08:32) Google rolls out Gemini side panels for Gmail and other Workspace apps(00:12:30) OpenAI delays rolling out its 'Voice Mode' to July(00:15:40) OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Mac is now available to all users(00:17:27) Waymo ditches the waitlist and opens up its robotaxis to everyone in San Francisco(00:18:53) Figma announces big redesign with AIApplications & Business(00:21:37) Meet Sohu: The World’s First Transformer Specialized Chip ASIC(00:29:42) Huawei Has Reportedly Invested Billions In An R&D Facility That Will Allow It To Develop Advanced Chipmaking Machinery Similar To ASML & Others(00:32:17) China's ByteDance working with Broadcom to develop advanced AI chip, sources say(00:35:35) Chinese AI firms woo OpenAI users as US company plans API restrictions(00:39:45) OpenAI walks back controversial stock sale policies, will treat current and former employees the sameProjects & Open Source(00:43:42) Meta Large Language Model Compiler: Foundation Models of Compiler Optimization(00:47:54) Google’s Gemma 2 series launches with not one, but two lightweight model options—a 9B and 27B(00:48:50) ESM3: Simulating 500 million years of evolution with a language modelResearch & Advancements(00:56:57) Finding GPT-4’s mistakes with GPT-4(01:03:30) Chinese-built ChatGLM exceeds GPT-4 Across Several Benchmarks(01:07:15) Performances are plateauing, let's make the leaderboard steep again(01:11:18) Structural mechanism of bridge RNA-guided recombination(01:15:01) Reconciling Kaplan and Chinchilla Scaling LawsPolicy & Safety(01:17:42) Safety Alignment Should Be Made More Than Just a Few Tokens Deep(01:23:02) Y Combinator rallies start-ups against California’s AI safety bill(01:28:20) Pro-Kigali propagandists caught using Artificial Intelligence tools(01:21:40) Coordinated Disclosure of Dual-Use Capabilities: An Early Warning System for Advanced AI(01:35:08) Adversaries Can Misuse Combinations of Safe ModelsMitigating Skeleton Key, a new type of generative AI jailbreak techniqueSynthetic Media & Art(01:39:35) Music labels sue AI music generators for copyright infringement(01:42:43) YouTube is trying to make AI music deals with major record labels(01:45:07) Toys ‘R’ Us Debuts First Video Ad Using Sora, OpenAI’s Text-to-Video Tool(01:49:12) Outro + AI Song -
Our 171st 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)
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(00:00:00) Intro / BanterTools & Apps(00:03:13) Apple Intelligence: every new AI feature coming to the iPhone and Mac(00:10:03) ‘We don’t need Sora anymore’: Luma’s new AI video generator Dream Machine slammed with traffic after debut(00:14:48) Runway unveils new hyper realistic AI video model Gen-3 Alpha, capable of 10-second-long clips(00:18:21) Leonardo AI image generator adds new video mode — here’s how it works(00:22:31) Anthropic just dropped Claude 3.5 Sonnet with better vision and a sense of humorApplications & Business(00:28:23 ) Sam Altman might reportedly turn OpenAI into a regular for-profit company(00:31:19) Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross, Daniel Levy launch Safe Superintelligence Inc.(00:38:53) OpenAI welcomes Sarah Friar (CFO) and Kevin Weil (CPO)(00:41:44) Report: OpenAI Doubled Annualized Revenue in 6 Months(00:44:30) AI startup Adept is in deal talks with Microsoft(00:48:55) Mistral closes €600m at €5.8bn valuation with new lead investor(00:53:12) Huawei Claims Ascend 910B AI Chip Manages To Surpass NVIDIA’s A100, A Crucial Alternative For China(00:56:58) Astrocade raises $12M for AI-based social gaming platformProjects & Open Source(01:01:03) Announcing the Open Release of Stable Diffusion 3 Medium, Our Most Sophisticated Image Generation Model to Date(01:05:53) Meta releases flurry of new AI models for audio, text and watermarking(01:09:39) ElevenLabs unveils open-source creator tool for adding sound effects to videosResearch & Advancements(01:12:02) Samba: Simple Hybrid State Space Models for Efficient Unlimited Context Language Modeling(01:22:07) Improve Mathematical Reasoning in Language Models by Automated Process Supervision(01:28:01) Introducing Lamini Memory Tuning: 95% LLM Accuracy, 10x Fewer Hallucinations(01:30:32) An Empirical Study of Mamba-based Language Models(01:31:57) BERTs are Generative In-Context Learners(01:33:33) SELFGOAL: Your Language Agents Already Know How to Achieve High-level GoalsPolicy & Safety(01:35:16) Sycophancy to subterfuge: Investigating reward tampering in language models(01:42:26) Waymo issues software and mapping recall after robotaxi crashes into a telephone pole(01:45:53) Meta pauses AI models launch in Europe(01:46:44) Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single DirectionSycophancy to subterfuge: Investigating reward tampering in language models(01:51:38) Huawei exec concerned over China’s inability to obtain 3.5nm chips, bemoans lack of advanced chipmaking toolsSynthetic Media & Art(01:55:07) It Looked Like a Reliable News Site. It Was an A.I. Chop Shop.(01:57:39) Adobe overhauls terms of service to say it won’t train AI on customers’ work(01:59:31) Buzzy AI Search Engine Perplexity Is Directly Ripping Off Content From News Outlets(02:02:23) Outro + AI Song -
Our 170th 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)
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Tools & Apps(00:03:33) KLING is the latest AI video generator that could rival OpenAI's Sora(00:09:16) ‘Apple Intelligence’ will automatically choose between on-device and cloud-powered AI(00:12:21) Udio introduces new udio-130 music generation model and more advanced features(00:14:38) Perplexity AI’s new feature will turn your searches into shareable pages(00:16:35) ElevenLabs’ AI generator makes explosions or other sound effects with just a prompt(00:18:37) Google’s updated AI-powered NotebookLM expands to India, UK and over 200 other countriesApplications & Business(00:19:40) OpenAI is restarting its robotics research group(00:25:01) Saudi fund invests in China effort to create rival to OpenAI(00:29:34) UAE seeks ‘marriage’ with US over artificial intelligence deals(00:33:01) Zoox to test self-driving cars in Austin and Miami (00:35:49) Microsoft Lays Off 1,500 Workers, Blames "AI Wave"(00:38:28) Avengers, assemble—Google, Intel, Microsoft, AMD and more team up to develop an interconnect standard to rival Nvidia's NVLinkProjects & Open Source(00:40:39) GLM-4-9B-Chat-1M(00:46:37) Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics show off first project: an open source robot that does chores(00:49:40) Zyphra debuts Zyda, a 1.3T language modeling dataset it claims outperforms Pile, C4, arxiv(00:51:59) Stability AI debuts new Stable Audio Open for sound designResearch & Advancements(00:54:05) Scaling and evaluating sparse autoencoders(01:04:54) Improving Alignment and Robustness with Short Circuiting(01:12:11) Automatic Data Curation for Self-Supervised Learning: A Clustering-Based Approach(01:16:20) GPT-4 didn't ace the bar exam after all, MIT research suggests — it didn't even break the 70th percentilePolicy & Safety(01:20:11) Former OpenAI researcher foresees AGI reality in 2027(01:28:03) OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ‘Reckless’ Race for Dominance(01:33:52) Testing and mitigating elections-related risks(01:36:26) Teams of LLM Agents can Exploit Zero-Day VulnerabilitiesSynthetic Media & Art(01:43:23) The Uncanny Rise of the World's First AI Beauty Pageant(01:46:25) Outro + AI Song -
Our 168th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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(00:00:00) Intro / Banter(00:02:55) Response to listener comments / correctionsTools & Apps(00:04:33) Google’s A.I. Search Errors Cause a Furor Online(00:10:56) Telegram gets an in-app Copilot bot(00:13:13) Opera is adding Google's Gemini AI to its browser(0016:13) Amazon plans to give Alexa an AI overhaul — and a monthly subscription price(00:19:15) Microsoft Edge will translate and dub YouTube videos as you’re watching them(00:21:12) Iyo thinks its gen AI earbuds can succeed where Humane and Rabbit stumbledApplications & Business(00:24:57) PwC agrees deal to become OpenAI's first reseller and largest enterprise user(00:30:07) Vox Media and The Atlantic sign content deals with OpenAI(00:36:27) OpenAI launches programs making ChatGPT cheaper for schools and nonprofits(00:40:03) Huawei patent reveals 3nm-class process technology plans — China continues to move forward despite US sanctions(00:44:32) Nvidia, Powered by A.I. Boom, Reports Soaring Revenue and Profits(00:48:16) Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6 billion in latest funding roundProjects & Open Source(00:51:13) Scale AI publishes its first LLM Leaderboards, ranking AI model performance in specific domains(00:56:04) Cohere For AI Launches Aya 23, 8 and 35 Billion Parameter Open Weights Release(01:00:45) Who will make AlphaFold3 open source? Scientists race to crack AI model(01:04:07) Mistral releases Codestral, its first generative AI model for codeResearch & Advancements(01:09:23) The Road Less Scheduled(01:14:10) Training Compute of Frontier AI Models Grows by 4-5x per Year(01:21:33) gzip Predicts Data-dependent Scaling Laws(01:25:51) Neural Scaling Laws for Embodied AI(01:28:47) Contextual Position Encoding: Learning to Count What’s Important(01:33:09) New AI products much hyped but not much used, study saysPolicy & Safety(01:37:00) Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting(01:46:36) OpenAI researcher who resigned over safety concerns joins Anthropic(01:49:16) Leaked OpenAI Documents Show Sam Altman Was Clearly Aware of Silencing Former Employees(01:54:33) OpenAI Board Forms Safety and Security Committee(01:58:07) Robocaller Who Used AI to Clone Biden’s Voice Fined $6 Million(01:59:08) Hacker Releases Jailbroken "Godmode" Version of ChatGPT(02:00:46) China Creates $47.5 Billion Chip Fund to Back Nation’s FirmsSynthetic Media & Art(02:02:23) Alphabet, Meta Offer Millions to Partner With Hollywood on AI(02:04:21) Outro + AI Song -
Our 168th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
With guest host Gavin Purcell from AI for Humans podcast!
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(00:00:00) Intro / Banter + Response to listener comments / correctionsTools & Apps(00:08:00) OpenAI says Sky voice in ChatGPT will be paused after concerns it sounds too much like Scarlett Johansson(00:16:14) Microsoft’s Copilot assistant is getting a GPT-4o upgrade + Recall is Microsoft’s key to unlocking the future of PCs(00:21:36) ElevenLabs Launches AI-Voiced Screen Reader App(00:22:40) Adobe Lightroom gets a magic eraser, and it’s impressive(00:25:07) Microsoft, Khan Academy provide free AI assistant for all educators in US(00:27:40) Microsoft Paint is getting an AI-powered image generator that responds to your text prompts and doodlesApplications & Business(00:29:16) OpenAI founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman go on the defensive after top safety researchers quit(00:36:58) OpenAI, WSJ Owner News Corp Strike Content Deal Valued at Over $250 Million(00:41:27) CoreWeave Raises $7.5 Billion in Debt for AI Computing Push(00:44:13) Google announced Trillium, its sixth generation of Tensor processors.(00:45:09) Inflection AI reveals new team and plan to embed emotional AI in business bots(00:47:01) Data-labeling startup Scale AI raises $1B as valuation doubles to $13.8BProjects & Open Source(00:48:35) Abacus AI Releases Smaug-Llama-3-70B-Instruct: The New Benchmark in Open-Source Conversational AI Rivaling GPT-4 Turbo(00:52:24) Introducing New Chatbot Arena Category: Hard Prompts(00:54:56) Microsoft brings out a small language model that can look at picturesResearch & Advancements(00:56:05) New Anthropic Research Sheds Light on AI's 'Black Box'(01:04:03) Chameleon: Mixed-Modal Early-Fusion Foundation Models(01:08:14) SpeechVerse: A Large-scale Generalizable Audio Language Model(01:09:05) CAT3D: Create Anything in 3D with Multi-View Diffusion Models(01:11:17) Coin3D: Controllable and Interactive 3D Assets Generation with Proxy-Guided Conditioning(01:12:10) SpeechGuard: Exploring the Adversarial Robustness of Multimodal Large Language ModelsPolicy & Safety(01:15:01) World’s first major law for artificial intelligence gets final EU green light(01:17:18) Colorado governor signs sweeping AI regulation bill(01:22:10) Senators Propose $32 Billion in Annual A.I. Spending but Defer Regulation(01:23:25) Google DeepMind launches new framework to assess the dangers of AI models(01:25:05) Tech giants pledge AI safety commitments — including a ‘kill switch’ if they can’t mitigate risksSynthetic Media & Art(01:28:32) Sony Music warns tech companies over ‘unauthorized’ use of its content to train AI(01:32:34) Hollywood agency CAA aims to help stars manage their own AI likenesses(01:38:28) What Do You Do When A.I. Takes Your Voice?(01:42:01) Outro + AI Song -
Our 167th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
With guest host Daliana Liu (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dalianaliu/) from The Data Scientist Show!
And a special one-time interview with Andrey in the latter part of the podcast.
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Intro / BanterTools & Apps(00:03:42) OpenAI releases GPT-4o, a faster model that’s free for all ChatGPT users(00:12:06) Project Astra is the future of AI at Google(00:18:06) Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down(00:19:39) Google unveils Veo and Imagen 3, its latest AI media creation models(00:23:36) Google Unveils Music AI Sandbox Making Loops From Prompts(00:26:27) Anthropic AI Launches a Prompt Engineering Tool that Generates Production-Ready Prompts in the Anthropic ConsoleApplications & Business(00:31:02) OpenAI’s Chief Scientist and Co-Founder Is Leaving the Company(00:35:15) Mike Krieger joins Anthropic as Chief Product Officer(00:36:28) $16k G1 humanoid rises up to smash nuts, twist and twirl(00:41:02) GM's Cruise to start testing robotaxis in Phoenix area with human safety drivers on board(00:42:52) US agency probes Amazon-owned Zoox self-driving vehicles after two crashes(00:43:58) Waymo’s robotaxis under investigation after crashes and traffic mishapsProjects & Open Source(00:44:48) Introducing PaliGemma, Gemma 2, and an Upgraded Responsible AI Toolkit(00:46:24) Falcon 2: UAE’s Technology Innovation Institute Releases New AI Model Series, Outperforming Meta’s New Llama 3(00:48:00) License to Call: Introducing Transformers Agents 2.0Research & Advancements(00:49:22) The Platonic Representation Hypothesis(00:53:08) SUTRA: Scalable Multilingual Language Model ArchitecturePolicy & Safety(00:54:46) Bipartisan Senate bill on AI security would bolster voluntary cyber reporting processes(00:56:17) U.K. agency releases tools to test AI model safety(00:57:25) Protesters Are Fighting to Stop AI, but They’re Split on How to Do ItSynthetic Media & Art(00:58:54) Google’s invisible AI watermark will help identify generative text and video(01:00:50) How One Author Pushed the Limits of AI Copyright(01:03:27) Stellaris gets an DLC about AI that features AI-created voices, director insists it's 'ethical' and 'we're pretty good at exploring dystopian sci-fi and don't want to end up there ourselves'(01:04:46) At the AI Film Festival, humanity triumphed over tech(01:06:37) Daliana Interviews Andrey(01:42:00) AI Outro Song -
Our 166th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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(00:00:00) Intro / BanterTools & Apps(00:04:23) ElevenLabs previews music-generating AI model(00:09:31) Mysterious “gpt2-chatbot” AI model appears suddenly, confuses experts(00:13:00) SoundHound AI and Perplexity Partner to Bring Online LLMs to Next Gen Voice Assistants Across Cars and IoT Devices(00:14:50) Stability AI sows gen AI discord with Stable Artisan(00:16:35) Apple Will Revamp Siri to Catch Up to Its Chatbot Competitors(00:18:54) Alibaba rolls out latest version of its large language model to meet robust AI demandApplications & Business(00:19:34) OpenAI and Stack Overflow partner to bring more technical knowledge into ChatGPT(00:17:31) New Microsoft AI model may challenge GPT-4 and Google Gemini(00:31:08) Wayve, an A.I. Start-Up for Autonomous Driving, Raises $1 Billion(00:32:00) Motional delays commercial robotaxi plans amid restructuring(00:33:54) The rise of the Chinese AI unicorns doing battle with OpenAIProjects & Open Source(00:35:25) Prometheus 2: An Open Source Language Model Specialized in Evaluating Other Language Models(00:40:12) DeepSeek-V2: A Strong, Economical, and Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Language Model(00:44:31) OpenVoice V2: Evolving Multilingual Voice Cloning with Enhanced Style Control and Cross-Lingual Capabilities(00:45:20) Granite Code Models: A Family of Open Foundation Models for Code Intelligence(00:46:00) Hugging Face launches LeRobot open source robotics code library(00:48:50) Vibe-Eval: A new open and hard evaluation suite for measuring progress of multimodal language modelsResearch & Advancements(00:50:02) Google DeepMind’s Groundbreaking AI for Protein Structure Can Now Model DNA(00:57:20) xLSTM: Extended Long Short-Term Memory(01:06:35) StoryDiffusion: Consistent Self-Attention for Long-Range Image and Video Generation(01:07:55) Chain of Thought Empowers Transformers to Solve Inherently Serial Problems(01:11:48) KAN: Kolmogorov-Arnold NetworksPolicy & Safety(01:13:20) US lawmakers unveil bill to make it easier to restrict exports of AI models(01:17:30) OpenAI’s Model Spec outlines some basic rules for AI(01:20:18) Robot dogs armed with AI-targeting rifles undergo US Marines Special Ops evaluation(01:25:15) OpenAI Releases ‘Deepfake’ Detector to Disinformation ResearchersSynthetic Media & Art(01:28:15) Audible’s Test of AI-Voiced Audiobooks Tops 40,000 Titles(01:32:30) TikTok will automatically label AI-generated content created on platforms like DALL·E 3(01:33:23) Katy Perry's Fan-Made AI Image Is So Real It Fooled the World Into Thinking She Was at the Met Gala(01:35:32) South Korean woman falls for deepfake Elon Musk, loses $50K in romance scam (01:37:18) Why young Russian women appear so eager to marry Chinese men(01:40:18) AI Outro Song -
Our 165th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Tools & Apps(00:01:27) GitHub releases an AI-powered tool aiming for a 'radically new way of building software'(00:07:05) China unveils Sora challenger able to produce videos from text similar to OpenAI tool, though much shorter(00:12:23) ChatGPT’s AI ‘memory’ can remember the preferences of paying customers(00:14:21) Rabbit R1 review: Avoid this AI gadget(00:18:30) Amazon Q, a generative AI-powered assistant for businesses and developers, is now generally available(00:19:54) Yelp’s Assistant AI bot will do all the talking to help users find service providersApplications & Business(00:21:31) Video of super-fast, super-smooth humanoid robot will drop your jaw(00:25:22) Tesla’s 2 million car Autopilot recall is now under federal scrutiny(00:29:32) Tesla shares soar as Elon Musk returns from China with FSD 'Game Changer'(00:32:11) OpenAI inks strategic tie-up with UK’s Financial Times, including content use(00:35:21) OpenAI Startup Fund quietly raises $15M(00:37:00) Huawei backs HBM memory manufacturing in China to sidestep crippling US sanctions that restrict AI developmentResearch & Advancements(00:39:20) Capabilities of Gemini Models in Medicine(00:45:34) Let's Think Dot by Dot: Hidden Computation in Transformer Language Models(00:52:20) NExT: Teaching Large Language Models to Reason about Code Execution(00:55:08) SenseNova 5.0: China’s latest AI model surpasses OpenAI’s GPT-4(00:57:20) Octopus v4: Graph of language models(01:00:28) Better & Faster Large Language Models via Multi-token PredictionPolicy & Safety(01:03:15) Refusal in LLMs is mediated by a single direction(01:09:19) Rishi Sunak promised to make AI safe. Big Tech’s not playing ball.(01:15:09) DOE Announces New Actions to Enhance America’s Global Leadership in Artificial Intelligence(01:18:21) The Chips Act is rebuilding US semiconductor manufacturing, so far resulting in $327 billion in announced projects(01:20:50) Analysis-Second global AI safety summit faces tough questions, lower turnout(01:24:03) Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, and more join the federal AI safety boardSynthetic Media & Art(01:26:30) Air Head creators say OpenAI's Sora finicky to work with, needs hundreds of prompts, serious VFX work for under 2 minutes of cohesive story ↺(01:29:50) Eight newspaper publishers sue OpenAI over copyright infringement -
Our 164th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Tools & Apps(00:04:02) Meta, in Its Biggest A.I. Push, Places Smart Assistants Across Its Apps(00:07:26) Microsoft launches Phi-3, its smallest AI model yet(00:15:35) The Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses have multimodal AI now(00:17:32) OpenAI winds down AI image generator that blew minds and forged friendships in 2022(00:18:44) Baidu claims 200 million users for Ernie chatbot after only 13 months(00:21:13) The new Adobe Photoshop gets an in-app image generator, major Generative Fill upgradesApplications & Business(00:22:22) Intel & The Pentagon Deepen Ties To Develop World’s Most Advanced Chips(00:27:58) Meta Says It Plans to Spend Billions More on A.I.(00:31:36) OpenAI CEO Sam Altman invests in solar power firm Exowatt to fuel AI datacenters(00:33:58) Google consolidates AI-focused DeepMind, Research teams(00:36:22) Microsoft and OpenAI bet $100 billion to free themselves from the shackles and overreliance on the world's most profitable semiconductor chip brand for AI chipsProjects & Open Source(00:39:03) Apple releases OpenELM: small, open source AI models designed to run on-device(00:44:12) Snowflake launches Arctic, an open ‘mixture-of-experts’ LLM to take on DBRX, Llama 3Research & Advancements(00:48:08) The Instruction Hierarchy: Training LLMs to Prioritize Privileged Instructions(00:55:11) Groq’s breakthrough AI chip achieves blistering 800 tokens per second on Meta’s LLaMA 3(00:59:52) Microsoft shows off VASA-1, an AI framework that makes human headshots talk, sing(01:01:59) Intel Builds World’s Largest Neuromorphic System to Enable More Sustainable AIPolicy & Safety(01:05:11) Deepfakes of Bollywood stars spark worries of AI meddling in India election(01:08:51) LLM Agents can Autonomously Exploit One-day Vulnerabilities(01:15:27) The Necessity of AI Audit Standards Boards(01:19:45) A Mechanism-Based Approach to Mitigating Harms from Persuasive Generative AI(01:22:45) COERCING LLMS TO DO AND REVEAL (ALMOST) ANYTHING(01:26:40) China acquired recently banned Nvidia chips in Super Micro, Dell servers, tenders showSynthetic Media & Art(01:29:08) Drake threatened with lawsuit over diss track featuring AI Tupac -
Our 163rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Note: apology for this one coming out a few days late, got delayed in editing it -Andrey
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Timestamps + links:
Intro / BanterTools & Apps(00:02:16) Meta releases Llama 3, claims it’s among the best open models available(00:14:01) Elon Musk’s xAI Unveils Grok-1.5 Vision, Beats OpenAI’s GPT-4V(00:17:55) Reka releases Reka Core, its multimodal language model to rival GPT-4 and Claude 3 Opus(00:21:50) Cohere Compass Private Beta: A New Multi-Aspect Embedding Model(00:23:48) Amazon Music’s Maestro lets listeners make AI playlists(00:24:36) Snap plans to add watermarks to images created with its AI-powered toolsApplications & Business(00:25:52) Boston Dynamics unveils new Atlas robot for commercial use(00:30:32) TSMC’s $65 billion bet still leaves US missing piece of chip puzzle(00:36:30) U.S. blacklists Intel's and Nvidia's key partner in China — three other Chinese firms also included in the blacklist for helping the military(00:38:37) Elon Musk says the next-generation Grok 3 model will require 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs to train(00:40:22) Dr. Andrew Ng appointed to Amazon’s Board of Directors(00:41:55) Collaborative Robotics Locks Up $100M, Latest Robot Startup To Raise BigProjects & Open Source(00:44:08) OpenEQA: Embodied Question Answering in the Era of Foundation Models(00:50:03) Introducing Idefics2: A Powerful 8B Vision-Language Model for the communityResearch & Advancements(00:51:21) RHO-1: Not All Tokens Are What You Need(00:57:21) Scaling Laws for Fine-Grained Mixture of Experts(01:03:20) Chinchilla Scaling: A replication attempt(01:07:18) China develops new light-based chiplet that could power artificial general intelligence — where AI is smarter than humans(01:10:45) OSWorld: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents for Open-Ended Tasks in Real Computer EnvironmentsPolicy & Safety(01:13:44) U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo Announces Expansion of U.S. AI Safety Institute Leadership Team(01:17:18) NSA Publishes Guidance for Strengthening AI System Security(01:19:19) Foundational Challenges in Assuring Alignment and Safety of Large Language Models(01:24:11) Former OpenAI Board Member Calls for Audits of Top AI Companies(01:27:35) SoA survey reveals a third of translators and quarter of illustrators losing work to AISynthetic Media & Art(01:30:25) Medium bans AI-generated content from its paid Partner Program - Visa fler
