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September 03, 2024#180 - Ideogram v2, Imagen 3, AI in 2030, Agent Q, SB 1047
Our 180th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)
If you would like to get a sneak peek and help test Andrey's generative AI application, go to Astrocade.com to join the waitlist and the discord.
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/
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Episode Highlights:
Ideogram AI's new features, Google's Imagine 3, Dream Machine 1.5, and Runway's Gen3 Alpha Turbo model advancements.
Perplexity's integration of Flux image generation models and code interpreter updates for enhanced search results.
Exploration of the feasibility and investment needed for scaling advanced AI models like GPT-4 and Agent Q architecture enhancements.
Analysis of California's AI regulation bill SB1047 and legal issues related to synthetic media, copyright, and online personhood credentials.
Timestamps + Links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
(00:01:08) Response to Listener Comments / Corrections
Tools & Apps
(00:03:58) Ideogram AI expands its features with v2 model and color palette options
(00:07:48) Google Releases Powerful AI Image Generator You Can Use for Free
(00:11:41) Perplexity adds Flux.1 model for Pro users alongside Playground v3 update
(00:13:58) Luma drops Dream Machine 1.5 — here’s what’s new
(00:17:49) Runway’s Gen-3 Alpha Turbo is here and can make AI videos faster than you can type
(00:20:21) Perplexity’s latest update improves code interpreter, charts included
Applications & Business
(00:24:14) AMD buying server maker ZT Systems for $4.9 billion as chipmakers strengthen AI capabilities
(00:28:55) Ars Technica content is now available in OpenAI services
(00:34:08) Anysphere, a GitHub Copilot rival, has raised $60M Series A at $400M valuation from a16z, Thrive, sources say
00:38:32 Stability AI appoints new Chief Technology Officer
(00:41:45) Cruise’s robotaxis are coming to the Uber app in 2025
Projects & Open Source
(00:44:16) AI21 Introduces the Jamba Model Family: The most powerful and efficient long-context models for the enterprise
(00:53:47) Microsoft reveals Phi-3.5 — this new small AI model outperforms Gemini and GPT-4o
(00:57:33) Nvidia’s Llama-3.1-Minitron 4B is a small language model that punches above its weight
(01:00:58) Open source Dracarys models ignite generative AI fired coding
Research & Advancements
(01:12:35) Can AI Scaling Continue Through 2030?
(01:15:35) Agent Q: Advanced Reasoning and Learning for Autonomous AI Agents
(01:23:58) Transformers to SSMs: Distilling Quadratic Knowledge to Subquadratic Models
(01:31:18) Loss of plasticity in deep continual learning
Policy & Safety
(01:38:20) California weakens bill to prevent AI disasters before final vote, taking advice from Anthropic
(01:48:14) Personhood credentials: Artificial intelligence and the value of privacy-preserving tools to distinguish who is real online
(01:52:44) Showing SAE Latents Are Not Atomic Using Meta-SAEs
Synthetic Media & Art
(01:58:33) Authors sue Claude AI chatbot creator Anthropic for copyright infringement
(01:59:32) Artists’ lawsuit against Stability AI and Midjourney gets more punch
(02:01:43) Outro
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2 hr 6 min
August 20, 2024#179 - Grok 2, Gemini Live, Flux, FalconMamba, AI Scientist
Our 179th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)
If you would like to get a sneak peek and help test Andrey's generative AI application, go to Astrocade.com to join the waitlist and the discord.
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/
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Email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected]
Episode Highlights:
- Grok 2's beta release features new image generation using Black Forest Labs' tech.
- Google introduces Gemini Voice Chat Mode available to subscribers and integrates it into Pixel Buds Pro 2.
- Huawei's Ascend 910C AI chip aims to rival NVIDIA's H100 amidst US export controls.
- Overview of potential risks of unaligned AI models and skepticism around SingularityNet's AGI supercomputer claims.
Timestamps + Links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
(00:02:15) Response to listener comments / corrections
Tools & Apps
(00:04:24) Grok-2 is out in beta, now with added AI image generation
(00:11:28) OpenAI reveals an updated GPT-4o model - but can't quite explain how it's better
(00:13:48) Google Gemini’s voice chat mode is here
(00:16:18) Google’s Pixel Buds Pro 2 bring Gemini to your ears
(00:19:55) Google’s AI-generated search summaries change how they show their sources
(00:23:13) Prompt Caching is Now Available on the Anthropic API for Specific Claude Models
Applications & Business
(00:26:56) Meet Black Forest Labs, the startup powering Elon Musk’s unhinged AI image generator
(00:26:56) Huawei readies new AI chip to challenge Nvidia in China, WSJ reports
(00:37:53) ASML and Imec Announce High-NA Lithography Breakthrough
(00:43:07) Chinese startup WeRide gets nod to test robotaxis with passengers in California
(00:45:49) Perplexity’s popularity surges as AI search start-up takes on Google
(00:51:55) Lisa Su formally welcomes Silo AI team to AMD after completing $665 million acquisition
Projects & Open Source
(00:54:31) FalconMamba 7B Released: The World’s First Attention-Free AI Model with 5500GT Training Data and 7 Billion Parameters
(00:59:25) OpenAI has introduced SWE-bench Verified to evaluate AI performance
(01:04:21) Nous Research presents Hermes 3
(01:11:07) New supercomputing network could lead to AGI, scientists hope, with 1st node coming online within weeks
Research & Advancements
(01:14:40) The AI Scientist: Towards Fully Automated Open-Ended Scientific Discovery
(01:30:24) Imagen 3
(01:32:48) The Data Addition Dilemma
(01:37:35) LongWriter: Unleashing 10,000+ Word Generation from Long Context LLMs
Policy & Safety
(01:40:55) MIT researchers release a repository of AI risks
(01:44:14) Elon Musk addresses power issues at xAI supercomputer facility in Memphis
(01:46:52) FCC Proposes New Rules on AI-Powered Robocalls
Governments Adjust Policies Amid Flood of AI Record Requests
Synthetic Media & Art
(01:48:21) SAG-AFTRA Strikes Groundbreaking AI Digital Voice Replica Pact With Startup Firm Narrativ
(01:51:52) How ‘Deepfake Elon Musk’ Became the Internet’s Biggest Scammer
(01:56:21) AI Song Outro
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1 hr 59 min
August 16, 2024#178 - More Not-Acquihires, More OpenAI drama, More LLM Scaling Talk
Our 178th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
NOTE: this is a re-upload with fixed audio, my bad on the last one! - Andrey
With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)
If you would like to get a sneak peek and help test Andrey's generative AI application, go to Astrocade.com to join the waitlist and the discord.
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/
If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form.
Email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected]
In this episode:
- Notable personnel movements and product updates, such as Character.ai leaders joining Google and new AI features in Reddit and Audible.
- OpenAI's dramatic changes with co-founder exits, extended leaves, and new lawsuits from Elon Musk.
- Rapid advancements in humanoid robotics exemplified by new models from companies like Figure in partnership with OpenAI, achieving amateur-level human performance in tasks like table tennis.
- Research advancements such as Google's compute-efficient inference models and self-compressing neural networks, showcasing significant reductions in compute requirements while maintaining performance.
Timestamps + Links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
(00:03:14) Response to listener comments / corrections
Applications & Business
(00:06:56) Google’s hiring of Character.AI’s founders is the latest sign that part of the AI startup world is starting to implode
(00:15:12) Investors in Adept AI will be paid back after Amazon hires startup’s top talent
(00:22:36) AI chip start-up Groq’s value rises to $2.8bn as it takes on Nvidia
(00:29:22) OpenAI co-founder Schulman leaves for Anthropic, Brockman takes extended leave
(00:36:18) Elon Musk files new lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman
(00:41:40) Figure’s new humanoid robot leverages OpenAI for natural speech conversations
(00:47:01) ASML, Tokyo Electron dodge new US chip export rules, for now
(00:53:10) OpenAI reportedly leads $60M round for webcam startup Opal
Tools & Apps
(00:55:40) OpenAI cuts GPT-4o prices, launches Structured Outputs amidst price war with Google
(01:02:08) Apple Intelligence could get a $20 Plus version
(01:04:05) Audible is testing an AI-powered search feature
(01:05:53) Reddit to test AI-powered search result pages
Research & Advancements
(01:06:35) Scaling LLM Test-Time Compute Optimally can be More Effective than Scaling Model Parameters
(01:16:27) Achieving Human Level Competitive Robot Table Tennis
(01:20:19) Self-Compressing Neural Networks
(01:28:30) Let Me Speak Freely? A Study on the Impact of Format Restrictions on Performance of Large Language Models
(01:32:43) Berkeley Humanoid: A Research Platform for Learning-based Control
Policy & Safety
(01:33:35) METR announces results of study on comparative capabilities of humans and agents
(01:39:35) ‘The Godmother of AI’ says California’s well-intended AI bill will harm the U.S. ecosystem
(01:49:13) Google Monopolized Search Through Illegal Deals, Judge Rules
(01:54:56) Amazon faces UK merger probe over $4B Anthropic AI investment
(01:55:44) GPT-4o System Card
(02:03:09) Outro
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
2 hr 6 min
August 11, 2024#177 - Instagram AI Bots, Noam Shazeer -> Google, FLUX.1, SAM2
Our 177th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
With guest co-host Jon Krohn from the super data science podcast (https://www.superdatascience.com/podcast)!
If you'd like to listen to the interview with Andrey, check out https://www.superdatascience.com/podcast
If you would like to get a sneak peek and help test Andrey's generative AI application, go to Astrocade.com to join the waitlist and the discord.
In this episode, hosts Andrey Kurenkov and Jon Krohn dive into significant updates and discussions in the AI world, including Instagram's new AI features, Waymo's driverless cars rollout in San Francisco, and NVIDIA’s chip delays. They also review Meta's AI Studio, character.ai CEO Noam Shazir's return to Google, and Google's Gemini updates. Additional topics cover NVIDIA's hardware issues, advancements in humanoid robots, and new open-source AI tools like Open Devon. Policy discussions touch on the EU AI Act, the U.S. stance on open-source AI, and investigations into Google and Anthropic. The impact of misinformation via deepfakes, particularly one involving Elon Musk, is also highlighted, all emphasizing significant industry effects and regulatory implications.
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(00:00:00) AI Song / Intro Banter
(00:05:32) Response to listener comments / corrections
Tools & Apps
(00:10:16) Apple Intelligence to Miss Initial Launch of Upcoming iOS 18 Overhaul
(00:16:35) Instagram starts letting people create AI versions of themselves
Lighting round
(00:22:49) Runway just dropped image-to-video in Gen3
(00:25:41) Midjourney drops surprise v6.1 update — now humans look more real than ever
(00:28:07) AI-Powered Necklace Will Be Your Friend for $99
(00:30:06) Microsoft is adding AI-powered summaries to Bing search results
Applications & Business
(00:31:44) Character.AI CEO Noam Shazeer returns to Google
(00:39:41) Perplexity is cutting checks to publishers following plagiarism accusations
Lighting round
(00:43:30) Nvidia reportedly delays its next AI chip due to a design flaw
(00:41:08) Neura shows off humanoid robot 4NE-1
(00:46:0) Yes, there are more driverless Waymos in S.F. Here’s how busy they are
(00:57:27) Canva acquires Leonardo.ai to boost its generative AI efforts
Projects & Open Source
(00:59:19) Black Forest Labs Open-Source FLUX.1: A 12 Billion Parameter Rectified Flow Transformer Capable of Generating Images from Text Descriptions
(01:01:59) Google releases new ‘open’ AI models with a focus on safety
Lighting round
(01:05:09) Stability AI releases super-fast model for 3D asset image generation
(01:09:29) OpenDevin: An Open Platform for AI Software Developers as Generalist Agents
Research & Advancements
(01:12:10) Meta AI Introduces Meta Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2): The First Unified Model for Segmenting Objects Across Images and Videos
(01:19:20) MoMa: Efficient Early-Fusion Pre-training with Mixture of Modality-Aware Experts
Lighting round
(01:25:00) AssistantBench: Can Web Agents Solve Realistic and Time-Consuming Tasks?
(01:26:19) Trust or Escalate: LLM Judges with Provable Guarantees for Human Agreement
(01:31:15) Stretching Each Dollar: Diffusion Training from Scratch on a Micro-Budget
Policy & Safety
(01:33:03) World's First-Ever AI Law Now Enforced in Europe, Targeting US Tech Giants
(01:39:12) White House says no need to restrict ‘open-source’ artificial intelligence — at least for now
Lighting round
(01:41:12) With Smugglers and Front Companies, China Is Skirting American A.I. Bans
(01:44:03) UK antitrust body probes Google’s ties with AI rival Anthropic
(01:45:20) Elon Musk posts deepfake of Kamala Harris that violates X policy
(01:50:10) AI Outro
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
1 hr 53 min
August 03, 2024#176 - BIG WEEK for OSS! SearchGPT, Lamma 3.1 405B, Mistral Large 2
Our 176th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
NOTE: apologies for this episode coming out about a week late, things got in the way of editing it...
With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)

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(00:00:00) Intro Song
(00:00:34) Intro Banter
Tools & Apps
(00:03:39) OpenAI announces SearchGPT, its AI-powered search engine
(00:08:03) Google gives free Gemini users access to its faster, lighter 1.5 Flash AI model
(00:09:10) X launches underwhelming Grok-powered ‘More About This Account’ feature
(00:11:36) Kuaishou Launches Full Beta Testing for 'Kling AI' to Global Users, Elevates Model Capabilities
(00:13:39) Adobe rolls out more generative AI features to Illustrator and Photoshop
(00:14:25) Meta AI gets new ‘Imagine me’ selfie feature
Projects & Open Source
(00:15:19) Meta releases open-source AI model it says rivals OpenAI, Google tech
(00:28:23) Mistral AI Unveils Mistral Large 2, Beats Llama 3.1 on Code and Math
(00:34:00) Groq’s open-source Llama AI model tops leaderboard, outperforming GPT-4o and Claude in function calling
(00:36:35) Apple shows off open AI prowess: new models outperform Mistral and Hugging Face offerings
Applications & Business
(00:40:25) Elon Musk wants Tesla to invest $5 billion into his newest startup, xAI — if shareholders approve
(00:43:01) Nvidia said to be prepping Blackwell GPUs for Chinese market
(00:46:28) Toronto AI company Cohere to indemnify customers who are sued for any copyright violations
(00:49:09) AI startup Cohere raises US$500-million, valuing company at US$5.5-billion
Research & Advancements
(00:52:01) AI achieves silver-medal standard solving International Mathematical Olympiad problems
(00:56:47) A Multimodal Automated Interpretability Agent
(01:00:56) MINT-1T: Scaling Open-Source Multimodal Data by 10x: A Multimodal Dataset with One Trillion Tokens
Policy & Safety
(01:02:56) Improving Model Safety Behavior with Rule-Based Rewards
(01:06:39) Senators demand OpenAI detail efforts to make its AI safe
(01:10:59) OpenAI reassigns top AI safety executive Aleksandr Madry to role focused on AI reasoning
(01:13:08) As new tech threatens jobs, Silicon Valley promotes no-strings cash aid
(01:17:33) Democratic senators seek to reverse Supreme Court ruling that restricts federal agency power
Synthetic Media & Art
(01:20:58) Video game performers will go on strike over artificial intelligence concerns
(01:23:03) Outro
(01:23:58) AI Song
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
1 hr 26 min
July 25, 2024#175 - GPT-4o Mini, OpenAI's Strawberry, Mixture of A Million Experts
Our 175th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)
In this episode of Last Week in AI, hosts Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremy Harris explore recent AI advancements including OpenAI's release of GPT 4.0 Mini and Mistral’s open-source models, covering their impacts on affordability and performance. They delve into enterprise tools for compliance, text-to-video models like Hyper 1.5, and YouTube Music enhancements. The conversation further addresses AI research topics such as the benefits of numerous small expert models, novel benchmarking techniques, and advanced AI reasoning. Policy issues including U.S. export controls on AI technology to China and internal controversies at OpenAI are also discussed, alongside Elon Musk's supercomputer ambitions and OpenAI’s Prover-Verify Games initiative.

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Timestamps + links:
(00:00:00) AI Song Intro
(00:00:40) Intro / Banter
Tools & Apps
(00:03:57) OpenAI unveils GPT-4o mini, a small AI model powering ChatGPT
(00:11:38) Meet Haiper 1.5, the new AI video generation model challenging Sora, Runway
(00:16:32) Anthropic releases Claude app for Android
(00:18:59) Google Vids is available to test out Gemini AI-created video presentations
(00:20:27) YouTube Music sound search rolling out, AI ‘conversational radio’ in testing
Applications & Business
(00:23:30) OpenAI working on new reasoning technology under code name ‘Strawberry’
(00:30:45) Inside Elon Musk’s Mad Dash To Build A Giant xAI Supercomputer In Memphis
(00:37:15) Apple, NVIDIA and Anthropic reportedly used YouTube transcripts without permission to train AI models
(00:41:05) After Tesla and OpenAI, Andrej Karpathy’s startup aims to apply AI assistants to education
(00:43:40) Menlo Ventures and Anthropic team up on a $100M AI fund
Projects & Open Source
(00:46:27) Mistral releases Codestral Mamba for faster, longer code generation
(00:50:36) Mistral AI and NVIDIA Unveil Mistral NeMo 12B, a Cutting-Edge Enterprise AI Model
(00:52:51) Hugging Face Releases SmoLLM, a Series of Small Language Models, Beats Qwen2 and Phi 1.5
(00:56:11) Stable Diffusion 3 License Revamped Amid Blowback, Promising Better Model
Research & Advancements
(01:01:49) FlashAttention-3 unleashes the power of H100 GPUs for LLMs
(01:06:38) Mixture of A Million Experts
(01:12:51) AutoBencher: Creating Salient, Novel, Difficult Datasets for Language Models
(01:18:23) SpreadsheetLLM: Encoding Spreadsheets for Large Language >Models
Policy & Safety
(01:20:50) Prover-Verifier Games improve legibility of language model outputs
(01:28:05) Trump allies draft AI order to launch ‘Manhattan Projects’ for defense
(01:34:40) On scalable oversight with weak LLMs judging strong LLMs
(01:36:24) Google, Microsoft offer Nvidia chips to Chinese companies, the Information reports
(01:38:26) U.S. planning 'draconian' sanctions against China's semiconductor industry: Report
(01:48:47) OpenAI illegally barred staff from airing safety risks, whistleblowers say
(01:44:59) Outro + AI Song
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
1 hr 48 min
July 17, 2024#174 - Odyssey Text-to-Video, Groq LLM Engine, OpenAI Security Issues
Our 174rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)
In this episode of Last Week in AI, we delve into the latest advancements and challenges in the AI industry, highlighting new features from Figma and Quora, regulatory pressures on OpenAI, and significant investments in AI infrastructure. Key topics include AMD's acquisition of Silo AI, Elon Musk's GPU cluster plans for XAI, unique AI model training methods, and the nuances of AI copying and memory constraints. We discuss developments in AI's visual perception, real-time knowledge updates, and the need for transparency and regulation in AI content labeling and licensing.
See full episode notes here.
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Timestamps + links:
(00:00:00) Intro AI Song
(00:00:41) Pre News Banter
Tools & Apps
(00:07:09) Odyssey Building 'Hollywood-Grade' AI Text-to-Video Model to Compete With Sora, Gen-3 Alpha
(00:10:28) Anthropic’s Claude adds a prompt playground to quickly improve your AI apps
(00:15:06) Figma pauses its new AI feature after Apple controversy
(00:18:30) Quora’s Poe now lets users create and share web apps
(00:20:54) Suno launches iPhone app — now you can make AI music on the go
Applications & Business
(00:21:42) Groq unveils lightning-fast LLM engine; developer base rockets past 280K in 4 months
(00:27:03) Microsoft and Apple ditch OpenAI board seats amid regulatory scrutiny
(00:29:39) OpenAI and Arianna Huffington are working together on an ‘AI health coach’
(00:33:38) AI coding startup Magic seeks $1.5-billion valuation in new funding round, sources say
(00:37:01) Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz Clash Over AI Chip Supplies Amid Gen AI Boom
(00:43:30) Elon Musk Reveals Plans To Make World’s “Most Powerful” 100,000 NVIDIA GPU AI Cluster
(00:46:25) AMD plans to acquire Silo AI in $665 million deal
(00:48:00) AI robotics startup raises US$300 million, including from Jeff Bezos
(00:52:11) Intel begins groundwork on Magdeburg chip fab despite 13 remaining regulatory and environmental objections
Research & Advancements
(00:55:21) Learning to (Learn at Test Time): RNNs with Expressive Hidden States
(01:03:12) Data curation via joint example selection further accelerates multimodal learning
(01:09:11) CopyBench: Measuring Literal and Non-Literal Reproduction of Copyright-Protected Text in Language Model Generation
(01:13:25) Just read twice: closing the recall gap for recurrent language models
(01:15:25) CodeUpdateArena: Benchmarking Knowledge Editing on API Updates
(01:18:31) Composable Interventions for Language Models
(01:24:09) Mind-reading AI recreates what you're looking at with amazing accuracy
Policy & Safety
(01:26:49) Covert Malicious Finetuning
(01:31:23) OpenAI’s week of security issues
(01:36:39) Here’s how OpenAI will determine how powerful its AI systems are
(01:39:56) Me, Myself and AI: The Situational Awareness Dataset for LLMs
(01:44:34) Exclusive: OpenAI partners with Los Alamos to study AI in the lab
(01:47:36) Judge dismisses coders’ DMCA claims against Microsoft, OpenAI and GitHub
(01:49:55) A former OpenAI safety employee said he quit because the company's leaders were 'building the Titanic' and wanted 'newer, shinier' things to sell
Synthetic Media & Art
(01:52:46) Vimeo joins YouTube and TikTok in launching new AI content labels
(01:54:50) Tech Startup Aims to Help Media License Content for AI Training
(01:57:23) Etsy adds AI-generated item guidelines in new seller policy
(01:59:44) Bumble users can now report profiles that use AI-generated photos
(02:02:05) Outro + AI Song
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
2 hr 5 min
July 07, 2024#173 - Gemini Pro, Llama 400B, Gen-3 Alpha, Moshi, Supreme Court
Our 173rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)
See full episode notes here.
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/
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Email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected]
In this episode of Last Week in AI, we explore the latest advancements and debates in the AI field, including Google's release of Gemini 1.5, Meta's upcoming LLaMA 3, and Runway's Gen 3 Alpha video model. We discuss emerging AI features, legal disputes over data usage, and China's competition in AI. The conversation spans innovative research developments, cost considerations of AI architectures, and policy changes like the U.S. Supreme Court striking down Chevron deference. We also cover U.S. export controls on AI chips to China, workforce development in the semiconductor industry, and Bridgewater's new AI-driven financial fund, evaluating the broader financial and regulatory impacts of AI technologies.

Timestamps + links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
Tools & Apps
(00:03:24) Google opens up Gemini 1.5 Flash, Pro with 2M tokens to the public
(00:08:47) Meta is about to launch its biggest Llama model yet — here’s why it’s a big deal
(00:12:38) Runway’s Gen-3 Alpha AI video model now available – but there’s a catch
(00:16:28) This is Google AI, and it's coming to the Pixel 9
(00:17:30) AI Firm ElevenLabs Sets Audio Reader Pact With Judy Garland, James Dean, Burt Reynolds and Laurence Olivier Estates
(00:20:06) Perplexity’s ‘Pro Search’ AI upgrade makes it better at math and research
(00:23:12) Gemini’s data-analyzing abilities aren’t as good as Google claims
Applications & Business
(00:26:38) Quora’s Chatbot Platform Poe Allows Users to Download Paywalled Articles on Demand
(00:32:04) Huawei and Wuhan Xinxin to develop high-bandwidth memory chips amid US restrictions
(00:34:57) Alibaba’s large language model tops global ranking of AI developer platform Hugging Face
(00:39:01) Here comes a Meta Ray-Bans challenger with ChatGPT-4o and a camera
(00:43:35) Apple’s Phil Schiller is reportedly joining OpenAI’s board
(00:47:26) AI Video Startup Runway Looking to Raise $450 Million
Projects & Open Source
(00:48:10) Kyutai Open Sources Moshi: A Real-Time Native Multimodal Foundation AI Model that can Listen and Speak
(00:50:44) MMEvalPro: Calibrating Multimodal Benchmarks Towards Trustworthy and Efficient Evaluation
(00:53:47) Anthropic Pushes for Third-Party AI Model Evaluations
(00:57:29) Mozilla Llamafile, Builders Projects Shine at AI Engineers World's Fair
Research & Advancements
(00:59:26) Researchers upend AI status quo by eliminating matrix multiplication in LLMs
(01:05:55) AI Agents That Matter
(01:12:09) WARP: On the Benefits of Weight Averaged Rewarded Policies
(01:17:20) Scaling Synthetic Data Creation with 1,000,000,000 Personas
(01:24:16) Found in the Middle: Calibrating Positional Attention Bias Improves Long Context Utilization
Policy & Safety
(01:26:32) With Chevron’s demise, AI regulation seems dead in the water
(01:33:40) Nvidia to make $12bn from AI chips in China this year despite US controls
(01:37:52) Uncle Sam relies on manual processes to oversee restrictions on Huawei, other Chinese tech players
(01:40:57) U.S. government addresses critical workforce shortages for the semiconductor industry with new program
(01:42:42) Bridgewater starts $2 billion fund that uses machine learning for decision-making and will include models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Perplexity
(01:47:57) Outro
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1 hr 50 min
July 01, 2024#172 - Claude and Gemini updates, Gemma 2, GPT-4 Critic
Our 172nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)
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(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
Tools & Apps
(00:03:02) Anthropic Debuts Collaboration Tools for Claude AI Assistant
(00:08:32) Google rolls out Gemini side panels for Gmail and other Workspace apps
(00:12:30) OpenAI delays rolling out its 'Voice Mode' to July
(00:15:40) OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Mac is now available to all users
(00:17:27) Waymo ditches the waitlist and opens up its robotaxis to everyone in San Francisco
(00:18:53) Figma announces big redesign with AI
Applications & Business
(00:21:37) Meet Sohu: The World’s First Transformer Specialized Chip ASIC
(00:29:42) Huawei Has Reportedly Invested Billions In An R&D Facility That Will Allow It To Develop Advanced Chipmaking Machinery Similar To ASML & Others
(00:32:17) China's ByteDance working with Broadcom to develop advanced AI chip, sources say
(00:35:35) Chinese AI firms woo OpenAI users as US company plans API restrictions
(00:39:45) OpenAI walks back controversial stock sale policies, will treat current and former employees the same
Projects & Open Source
(00:43:42) Meta Large Language Model Compiler: Foundation Models of Compiler Optimization
(00:47:54) Google’s Gemma 2 series launches with not one, but two lightweight model options—a 9B and 27B
(00:48:50) ESM3: Simulating 500 million years of evolution with a language model
Research & Advancements
(00:56:57) Finding GPT-4’s mistakes with GPT-4
(01:03:30) Chinese-built ChatGLM exceeds GPT-4 Across Several Benchmarks
(01:07:15) Performances are plateauing, let's make the leaderboard steep again
(01:11:18) Structural mechanism of bridge RNA-guided recombination
(01:15:01) Reconciling Kaplan and Chinchilla Scaling Laws
Policy & Safety
(01:17:42) Safety Alignment Should Be Made More Than Just a Few Tokens Deep
(01:23:02) Y Combinator rallies start-ups against California’s AI safety bill
(01:28:20) Pro-Kigali propagandists caught using Artificial Intelligence tools
(01:21:40) Coordinated Disclosure of Dual-Use Capabilities: An Early Warning System for Advanced AI
(01:35:08) Adversaries Can Misuse Combinations of Safe Models
Mitigating Skeleton Key, a new type of generative AI jailbreak technique
Synthetic Media & Art
(01:39:35) Music labels sue AI music generators for copyright infringement
(01:42:43) YouTube is trying to make AI music deals with major record labels
(01:45:07) Toys ‘R’ Us Debuts First Video Ad Using Sora, OpenAI’s Text-to-Video Tool
(01:49:12) Outro + AI Song
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1 hr 52 min
June 24, 2024#171 - Apple Intelligence, Dream Machine, SSI Inc
Our 171st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)
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Timestamps + Links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
Tools & Apps
(00:03:13) Apple Intelligence: every new AI feature coming to the iPhone and Mac
(00:10:03) ‘We don’t need Sora anymore’: Luma’s new AI video generator Dream Machine slammed with traffic after debut
(00:14:48) Runway unveils new hyper realistic AI video model Gen-3 Alpha, capable of 10-second-long clips
(00:18:21) Leonardo AI image generator adds new video mode — here’s how it works
(00:22:31) Anthropic just dropped Claude 3.5 Sonnet with better vision and a sense of humor
Applications & Business
(00:28:23 ) Sam Altman might reportedly turn OpenAI into a regular for-profit company
(00:31:19) Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross, Daniel Levy launch Safe Superintelligence Inc.
(00:38:53) OpenAI welcomes Sarah Friar (CFO) and Kevin Weil (CPO)
(00:41:44) Report: OpenAI Doubled Annualized Revenue in 6 Months
(00:44:30) AI startup Adept is in deal talks with Microsoft
(00:48:55) Mistral closes €600m at €5.8bn valuation with new lead investor
(00:53:12) Huawei Claims Ascend 910B AI Chip Manages To Surpass NVIDIA’s A100, A Crucial Alternative For China
(00:56:58) Astrocade raises $12M for AI-based social gaming platform
Projects & Open Source
(01:01:03) Announcing the Open Release of Stable Diffusion 3 Medium, Our Most Sophisticated Image Generation Model to Date
(01:05:53) Meta releases flurry of new AI models for audio, text and watermarking
(01:09:39) ElevenLabs unveils open-source creator tool for adding sound effects to videos
Research & Advancements
(01:12:02) Samba: Simple Hybrid State Space Models for Efficient Unlimited Context Language Modeling
(01:22:07) Improve Mathematical Reasoning in Language Models by Automated Process Supervision
(01:28:01) Introducing Lamini Memory Tuning: 95% LLM Accuracy, 10x Fewer Hallucinations
(01:30:32) An Empirical Study of Mamba-based Language Models
(01:31:57) BERTs are Generative In-Context Learners
(01:33:33) SELFGOAL: Your Language Agents Already Know How to Achieve High-level Goals
Policy & Safety
(01:35:16) Sycophancy to subterfuge: Investigating reward tampering in language models
(01:42:26) Waymo issues software and mapping recall after robotaxi crashes into a telephone pole
(01:45:53) Meta pauses AI models launch in Europe
(01:46:44) Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction
Sycophancy to subterfuge: Investigating reward tampering in language models
(01:51:38) Huawei exec concerned over China’s inability to obtain 3.5nm chips, bemoans lack of advanced chipmaking tools
Synthetic Media & Art
(01:55:07) It Looked Like a Reliable News Site. It Was an A.I. Chop Shop.
(01:57:39) Adobe overhauls terms of service to say it won’t train AI on customers’ work
(01:59:31) Buzzy AI Search Engine Perplexity Is Directly Ripping Off Content From News Outlets
(02:02:23) Outro + AI Song
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2 hr 5 min