Last Week in AI

#213 - Midjourney video, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, LiveCodeBench Pro

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Our 213nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Recorded on 06/21/2025

Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.

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In this episode:

  • Midjourney launches its first AI video generation model, moving from text-to-image to video with a subscription model offering up to 21-second clips, highlighting the affordability and growing capabilities in AI video generation.
  • Google's Gemini AI family updates include high-efficiency models for cost-effective workloads, and new enhancements in Google's search function now allow for voice interactions.
  • The introduction of two new benchmarks, Live Code Bench Pro and Abstention Bench, aiming to test and improve the problem-solving and abstention capabilities of reasoning models, revealing current limitations.
  • OpenAI wins a $200 million US defense contract to support various aspects of the Department of Defense, reflecting growing collaborations between tech companies and government for AI applications.

    • Timestamps + Links:

    • (00:00:10) Intro / Banter
    • (00:01:32) News Preview
    • Tools & Apps
      • (00:02:12) Midjourney launches its first AI video generation model, V1
      • (00:05:52) Google’s Gemini AI family updated with stable 2.5 Pro, super-efficient 2.5 Flash-Lite
      • (00:07:59) Google’s AI Mode can now have back-and-forth voice conversations
      • (00:10:13) YouTube to Add Google’s Veo 3 to Shorts in Move That Could Turbocharge AI on the Video Platform
        • Applications & Business
          • (00:11:10) The ‘OpenAI Files’ will help you understand how Sam Altman’s company works
          • (00:12:29) OpenAI drops Scale AI as a data provider following Meta deal
          • (00:13:28) Amazon’s Zoox opens its first major robotaxi production facility
            • Projects & Open Source
              • (00:15:20) LiveCodeBench Pro: How Do Olympiad Medalists Judge LLMs in Competitive Programming?
              • (00:19:45) AbstentionBench: Reasoning LLMs Fail on Unanswerable Questions
              • (00:22:49) MiniMax-M1: Scaling Test-Time Compute Efficiently with Lightning Attention
                • Research & Advancements
                  • (00:24:33) Scaling Laws of Motion Forecasting and Planning -- A Technical Report
                    • Policy & Safety
                      • (00:28:07) Universal Jailbreak Suffixes Are Strong Attention Hijackers
                      • (00:30:52) OpenAI found features in AI models that correspond to different ‘personas’
                      • (00:33:25) OpenAI wins $200 million U.S. defense contract
                        • ...more
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