Last Week in AI

#192 - ChatGPT Pro, Amazon Nova, GenFM, Llama 3.3, Genie 2

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Our 192nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news!

*and sometimes last last week's 

Note: this one was recorded on 12/04 , so the news is a bit outdated...

Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.

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    • In this episode:

    • OpenAI launches a $200 ChatGPT Pro subscription with advanced capabilities, while Amazon unveils cost-effective Nova multimodal models at the re:Invent conference.
    • Meta releases LLAMA 3.3 70B model, showing significant gains through post-training techniques, and Alibaba introduces QWQ, a reasoning model rivaling OpenAI's O1.
    • Amazon collaborates with Anthropic on a massive AI supercomputer project, and Black Forest Labs eyes a $200 million funding round for growth in AI tools.
    • New research from DeepMind's Genie 2 generates interactive 3D worlds from text and images, progressing AI's understanding of world models and interactive environments.

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      Timestamps + Links:

      • (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
      • (00:02:34) Sponsor Break
      • Tools & Apps
        • (00:04:19) OpenAI confirms new $200 monthly subscription, which includes its o1 reasoning model
        • (00:10:40) Amazon announces Nova, a new family of multimodal AI models
        • (00:17:13) ElevenLabs launches GenFM to turn user content into AI-powered podcasts
        • (00:20:21) Google’s new generative AI video model is now available
        • Applications & Business
          • (00:23:56) Elon Musk files for injunction to halt OpenAI’s transition to a for-profit
          • (00:29:40) Amazon Is Building a Mega AI Supercomputer With Anthropic
          • (00:34:15) It Sounds an Awful Lot Like OpenAI Is Adding Ads to ChatGPT
          • (00:38:23) A16z in Talks to Lead $200 Million Round in Black Forest Labs, Startup Behind AI Images on Grok
          • (00:41:10) Bezos Backs AI Chipmaker Vying With Nvidia at $2.6 Billion Value
          • Projects & Open Source
            • (00:45:25) Meta unveils a new, more efficient Llama model
            • (00:50:00) Alibaba releases an ‘open’ challenger to OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model
            • (00:55:21) DeMo: Decoupled Momentum Optimization
            • (00:57:01) PRIME Intellect Releases INTELLECT-1 (Instruct + Base): The First 10B Parameter Language Model Collaboratively Trained Across the Globe
            • (01:03:03) Tencent Launches HunyuanVideo, an Open-Source AI Video Model
            • Research & Advancements
              • (01:09:23) DeepMind’s Genie 2 can generate interactive worlds that look like video games
              • (01:16:43) Language Models are Hidden Reasoners: Unlocking Latent Reasoning Capabilities via Self-Rewarding
              • (01:20:40) Densing Law of LLMs
              • (01:25:59) Monet: Mixture of Monosemantic Experts for Transformers
              • Policy & Safety
                • (01:30:56) Commerce Strengthens Export Controls to Restrict China’s Capability to Produce Advanced Semiconductors for Military Applications
                • (01:37:33) China retaliates against latest US chip restrictions
                • (01:40:52) OpenAI Is Working With Anduril to Supply the US Military With AI
                • (01:43:24) On Targeted Manipulation and Deception when Optimizing LLMs for User Feedback
                • (01:47:52) AI Safety Researcher Quits OpenAI, Saying Its Trajectory Alarms Her
                • (01:51:52) Meta Claims AI Content Was Less than 1% of Election Misinformation
                • (01:55:05) Outro

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