#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)