Last Week in AI

#189 - Chat.com, FrontierMath, Relaxed Transformers, Trump & AI

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Our 189th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.

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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.

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    Timestamps + Links:

    • (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
    • (00:01:28) News Preview
    • (00:02:10) Response to listener comments
    • (00:05:02) Sponsor Break
    • Tools & 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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