November 28, 2024

#190 - AI scaling struggles, OpenAI Agents, Super Weights

1 hour 37 minutes

Our 190th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news!

*and sometimes last last week's

Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.

Note from Andrey: this one is coming out a bit later than planned, apologies! Next one will be coming out sooner.

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In this episode:

* OpenAI's pitch for a $100 billion data center and AI strategy plan outlines infrastructure and regulatory needs, emphasizing AI's foundational role akin to electricity.

* Google's Gemini model challenges OpenAI's dominance, showing strong performance in chatbot arenas alongside generative AI advancements.

* DeepMind's AlphaFold3 gets open-sourced for academic use, while new chips from NVIDIA and Google show significant performance boosts.

* Anthropic and TSMC updates highlight strategic funding, regulation influences, and the complex dynamics of AI hardware and international policy.

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Timestamps + Links:

(00:00:00) Intro / Banter

(00:02:44) News Preview

(00:03:34) Sponsor Break

Tools & Apps

(00:04:36) OpenAI, Google and Anthropic Are Struggling to Build More Advanced AI

(00:16:22) OpenAI Nears Launch of AI Agent Tool to Automate Tasks for Users

(00:19:14) Google drops new Gemini model and it goes straight to the top of the LLM leaderboard

(00:19:14) Chinese AI startup takes aim at OpenAI's Sora with image-to-video tool launch

(00:20:04) Introducing the Forge Reasoning API Beta and Nous Chat: An Evolution in LLM Inference

Applications & Business

(00:23:47) OpenAI Discusses AI Data Center That Could Cost $100 Billion

(00:26:48) Elon Musk's massive AI data center gets unlocked — xAI gets approved for 150MW of power, enabling all 100,000 GPUs to run concurrently

(00:29:34) Newest Google and Nvidia Chips Speed AI Training

(00:34:45) Ex-OpenAI CTO Murati’s New Team Takes Shape

(00:34:45) Amazon Discussing New Multibillion-Dollar Investment in Anthropic

Projects & Open Source

(00:37:52) Google DeepMind open-sources AlphaFold 3, ushering in a new era for drug discovery and molecular biology

(00:41:29) Near plans to build world’s largest 1.4T parameter open-source AI model

Research & Advancements

(00:45:38) The Super Weight in Large Language Models

(00:55:42) Compositional Abilities Emerge Multiplicatively: Exploring Diffusion Models on a Synthetic Task

(01:03:47) Mixture-of-Transformers: A Sparse and Scalable Architecture for Multi-Modal Foundation Models

(01:08:14) Contextualized Evaluations: Taking the Guesswork Out of Language Model Evaluations

Policy & Safety

(01:11:14) The Code of Practice for general-purpose AI offers a unique opportunity for the EU

(01:15:38) Three Sketches of ASL-4 Safety Case Components

(01:23:05) U.S Department of Commerce finalizes $6.6 billion CHIPS Act funding for TSMC Fab 21 Arizona site , TSMC cannot make 2nm chips abroad now: MOEA

(01:26:21) OpenAI to present plans for U.S. AI strategy and an alliance to compete with China

(01:30:42) OpenAI loses another lead safety researcher, Lilian Weng

(01:33:00) Outro

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