Last Week in AI

#176 - BIG WEEK for OSS! SearchGPT, Lamma 3.1 405B, Mistral Large 2

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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)

 

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  • (00:00:00) Intro Song
  • (00:00:34) Intro Banter
  • Tools & 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 feature
    • Projects & 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 offerings
      • Applications & 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-billion
        • Research & 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 Tokens
          • Policy & 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 power
            • Synthetic 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

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