Last Week in AI

#197 - AI in Gmail+Docs, MiniMax-01, Titans, Transformer^2

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Our 197th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Recorded on 01/17/2024

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    In this episode:

     - Google and Mistral sign deals with AP and AFP, respectively, to deliver up-to-date news through their AI platforms.

     - ChatGPT introduces a tasks feature for reminders and to-dos, positioning itself more as a personal assistant.
     - Synthesia raises $180 million to enhance its AI video platform for generating videos of human avatars.
     - New U.S. guidelines restrict exporting AI chips to various countries, impacting Nvidia and other tech firms.

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    Timestamps + Links:

    • (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
    • (00:04:29) News Preview
    • (00:05:09) Response to listener comments
    • (00:05:58) Sponsor Break
    • Tools & Apps
      • (00:07:01) Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free — but raising the price of Workspace
      • (00:07:52) Microsoft relaunches Copilot for business with free AI chat and pay-as-you-go agents
      • (00:12:36) Google signs deal with AP to deliver up-to-date news through its Gemini AI chatbot
      • (00:18:08) Mistral signs deal with AFP to offer up-to-date answers in Le Chat
      • (00:18:45) ChatGPT can now handle reminders and to-dos
      • Applications & Business
        • (00:22:53) Palmer Luckey’s AI Defense Company Anduril Is Building a $1 Billion Plant in Ohio
        • (00:28:36) OpenAI is bankrolling Axios’ expansion into four new markets
        • (00:29:39) AI researcher François Chollet founds a new AI lab focused on AGI
        • (00:32:18) Nvidia-backed AI video platform Synthesia doubles valuation to $2.1 billion
        • (00:34:46) Anysphere Raises $105M in Series B
        • (00:40:14) Harvey Valuation of 3 Billion
        • Projects & Open Source
          • (00:46:12) MiniMax-01: Scaling Foundation Models with Lightning Attention
          • (00:51:16) MinMo: A Multimodal Large Language Model with Approximately 8B Parameters for Seamless Voice Interaction
          • (00:53:01) HALoGEN: Fantastic LLM Hallucinations and Where to Find Them
          • Research & Advancements
            • (00:57:03) Titans: Learning to Memorize at Test Time
            • (01:04:38) Transformer2: Self-adaptive LLMs
            • (01:08:15) Inference-Time Scaling for Diffusion Models beyond Scaling Denoising Steps
            • Policy & Safety
              • (01:11:23) Biden administration proposes sweeping new restrictions on exporting AI chips
              • (01:13:56) Biden orders Energy, Defense departments to lease sites for AI data centers, clean energy generation
              • (01:15:00) OpenAI presents its preferred version of AI regulation in a new ‘blueprint’
              • (01:16:15) More teens report using ChatGPT for schoolwork, despite the tech’s faults
              • Synthetic Media & Art
                • (01:17:55) In AI copyright case, Zuckerberg turns to YouTube for his defense
                • (01:19:53) Outro

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