Last Week in AI

#171 - Apple Intelligence, Dream Machine, SSI Inc

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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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Timestamps + Links:

  • (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
  • Tools & 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 humor
  • Applications & 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 platform
  • Projects & 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 videos
  • Research & 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 Goals
  • Policy & 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 Direction
  • Sycophancy 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 tools
  • Synthetic 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 
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