Last Week in AI

#211 - Claude Voice, Flux Kontext, wrong RL research?

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Our 211th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Recorded on 05/31/2025

Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.

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In this episode:

  • Recent AI podcast covers significant AI news: startups, new tools, applications, investments in hardware, and research advancements.
  • Discussions include the introduction of various new tools and applications such as Flux's new image generating models and Perplexity's new spreadsheet and dashboard functionalities.
  • A notable segment focuses on OpenAI's partnership with the UAE and discussions on potential legislation aiming to prevent states from regulating AI for a decade.
  • Concerns around model behaviors and safety are discussed, highlighting incidents like Claude Opus 4's blackmail attempt and Palisade Research's tests showing AI models bypassing shutdown commands.

    • Timestamps + Links:

    • (00:00:10) Intro / Banter
    • (00:01:39) News Preview
    • (00:02:50) Response to Listener Comments
    • Tools & Apps
      • (00:07:10) Anthropic launches a voice mode for Claude
      • (00:10:35) Black Forest Labs’ Kontext AI models can edit pics as well as generate them
      • (00:15:30) Perplexity’s new tool can generate spreadsheets, dashboards, and more
      • (00:18:43) xAI to pay Telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app
      • (00:22:42) Opera’s new AI browser promises to write code while you sleep
      • (00:24:17) Google Photos debuts redesigned editor with new AI tools
        • Applications & Business
          • (00:25:13) Top Chinese memory maker expected to abandon DDR4 manufacturing at the behest of Beijing
          • (00:30:04) Oracle to Buy $40 Billion Worth of Nvidia Chips for First Stargate Data Center
          • (00:31:47) UAE makes ChatGPT Plus subscription free for all residents as part of deal with OpenAI
          • (00:35:34) NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA) to Launch Cheaper Blackwell AI Chip for China, Says Report
          • (00:38:39) The New York Times and Amazon ink AI licensing deal
            • Projects & Open Source
              • (00:41:11) DeepSeek’s distilled new R1 AI model can run on a single GPU
              • (00:45:19) Google Unveils SignGemma, an AI Model That Can Translate Sign Language Into Spoken Text
              • (00:47:08) Open-sourcing circuit tracing tools
              • (00:49:42) Hugging Face unveils two new humanoid robots
                • Research & Advancements
                  • (00:52:33) PANGU PRO MOE: MIXTURE OF GROUPED EXPERTS FOR EFFICIENT SPARSITY
                  • (00:58:55) DataRater: Meta-Learned Dataset Curation
                  • (01:05:05) Incorrect Baseline Evaluations Call into Question Recent LLM-RL Claims 
                  • (01:10:17) Maximizing Confidence Alone Improves Reasoning
                  • (01:11:00) Guided by Gut: Efficient Test-Time Scaling with Reinforced Intrinsic Confidence
                  • (01:11:44) One RL to See Them All
                  • (01:15:05) Efficient Reinforcement Finetuning via Adaptive Curriculum Learning
                    • Policy & Safety
                      • (01:17:58) Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' could ban states from regulating AI for a decade
                      • (01:24:31) Researchers claim ChatGPT o3 bypassed shutdown in controlled test
                      • (01:30:10) Anthropic’s new AI model turns to blackmail when engineers try to take it offline
                      • (01:31:09) Anthropic Faces Backlash As Claude 4 Opus Can Autonomously Alert Authorities
                      • (01:35:37) Claude helps users make bioweapons
                      • (01:35:49) The Claude 4 System Card is a Wild Read

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