Last Week in AI

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  • Weekly summaries of the AI news that matters!
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  • #189 - Chat.com, FrontierMath, Relaxed Transformers, Trump & AI

    #189 - Chat.com, FrontierMath, Relaxed Transformers, Trump & AI
    Nov 17 2024
    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 contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai 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 BreakTools & Apps (00:07:31) OpenAI Introduces ‘Predicted Outputs’ Feature: Speeding Up GPT-4o by ~5x for Tasks like Editing Docs or Refactoring Code(00:11:55) Anthropic’s Haiku 3.5 surprises experts with an “intelligence” price increase(00:17:10) Introducing FLUX1.1 [pro] Ultra and Raw Modes(00:19:11) X is testing a free version of Grok AI chatbot in select 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
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    1 hr and 43 mins
  • #188 - ChatGPT+Search, OpenAI+AMD, SimpleQA, π0

    #188 - ChatGPT+Search, OpenAI+AMD, SimpleQA, π0
    Nov 8 2024
    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 contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai 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 BreakTools & Apps (00:06:28) OpenAI’s search engine is now live in ChatGPT(00:12:18) Image Playground, ChatGPT, and more Apple Intelligence features roll out in beta(00:14:34) GitHub Copilot will support models from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI(00:19:00) Introducing the analysis tool in Claude.ai(00:21:34) ElevenLabs Introduces Voice Design: A New AI Feature that Generates a Unique Voice from a Text Prompt Alone(00:24:18) Midjourney's new web editor lets you tweak images uploaded from your PC(00:26:02) Watch out, Midjourney — Recraft just announced new AI image generator 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
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    1 hr and 52 mins
  • #187 - Anthropic Agents, Mochi1, 3.4B data center, OpenAI's FAST image gen

    #187 - Anthropic Agents, Mochi1, 3.4B data center, OpenAI's FAST image gen
    Oct 28 2024
    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 contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai 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
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    2 hrs and 10 mins

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