#156 - OpenAI's Sora, Gemini 1.5, BioMistral, V-JEPA, AI Task Force, Fun!

Our 156th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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(00:00:00) Intro / Banter

Tools & Apps(00:02:16) OpenAI introduces Sora, its text-to-video AI model

(00:13:24) Gemini 1.5 is Google’s next-gen AI model — and it’s already almost ready

(00:24:00) Groq AI model goes viral and rivals ChatGPT, challenges Elon Musk’s Grok

(00:29:26) Introducing IP Adapters: Create Consistent Game Assets in Seconds

(00:31:36) Report: OpenAI working on web search product

(00:33:20) Adobe Acrobat adds generative AI to ‘easily chat with documents’

Applications & Business(00:34:17) Sam Altman owns OpenAI's venture capital fund

(00:38:17) Reddit Signs AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO

(00:41:15) Nvidia reveals its Eos supercomputer for AI processing sporting 4,608 H100 GPUs

(00:44:41) Google quietly launches internal AI model named 'Goose' to help employees write code faster, leaked documents show

(00:46:24) Chinese start-up Moonshot AI raises US$1 billion in funding round led by Alibaba and VC HongShan amid strong interest for OpenAI-type firms

(00:50:06)  AI Computing Firm Lambda Raises $320 Million in Fresh Funding

(00:51:01) Exclusive: Ex-Salesforce Co-CEO Bret Taylor and longtime Googler Clay Bavor raised $110 million to bring AI ‘agents’ to business

Projects & Open Source(00:51:41) BioMistral: A Collection of Open-Source Pretrained Large Language Models for Medical Domains

(00:54:33) Nomic AI Releases the First Fully Open-Source Long Context Text Embedding Model that Surpasses OpenAI Ada-002 Performance on Various Benchmarks

Research & Advancements(00:57:33) Meta unveils V-JEPA AI model that improves training by learning from video

(01:04:51) Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Without Prompting

(01:09:45) OS-Copilot: Towards Generalist Computer Agents with Self-Improvement

(01:11:40) World Model on Million-Length Video And Language With RingAttention

(01:15:00) Amazon AGI Team Say Their AI Is Showing "Emergent Abilities"

Policy & Safety(01:17:15) Hackers for China, Russia and Others Used OpenAI Systems, Report Says

(01:21:15) House leaders launch bipartisan artificial intelligence task force

(01:25:08) Your fingerprints can be recreated from the sounds made when you swipe on a touchscreen — Chinese and US researchers show new side channel can reproduce fingerprints to enable attacks

(01:27:05) States are introducing 50 AI-related bills per week

(01:28:12) Air Canada found liable for chatbot's bad advice on plane tickets

(01:30:26) The FTC warned about ‘quiet’ TOS changes for AI training. Here’s why it might not be enough

Synthetic Media & Art(01:32:13) Sarah Silverman’s lawsuit against OpenAI partially dismissed

Fun & Miscellaneous(01:36:14) A Visual Guide to Mamba and State Space Models

(01:38:00) Scientific Journal Publishes AI-Generated Rat with Gigantic Penis In Worrying Incident

(01:40:50) Helen Mirren Rips Up AI-Generated Speech at American Cinematheque Awards

(01:41:40) Microsoft's game-changing Super Bowl ad