Last Week in AI

#187 - Anthropic Agents, Mochi1, 3.4B data center, OpenAI's FAST image gen

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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 [email protected] and/or [email protected]

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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
    • (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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