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Weekly summaries and discussion about the most interesting developments in AI, deep learning, robotics, and more!

  1. 17 SEPT

    # 182 - Alexa 2.0, MiniMax, Surskever raises $1B, SB 1047 approved

    Our 182nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris. 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 contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Sponsors: - Agent.ai is the global marketplace and network for AI builders and fans. Hire AI agents to run routine tasks, discover new insights, and drive better results. Don't just keep up with the competition—outsmart them. And leave the boring stuff to the robots 🤖 - Pioneers of AI, is your trusted guide to this emerging technology. Host Rana el Kaliouby (RAH-nuh el Kahl-yoo-bee) is an AI scientist, entrepreneur, author and investor exploring all the opportunities and questions AI brings into our lives. Listen to Pioneers of AI, with new episodes every Wednesday, wherever you tune in. In this episode: - OpenAI's move into hardware production and Amazon's strategic acquisition in AI robotics. - Advances in training language models with long-context capabilities and California's pending AI regulation bill. - Strategies for safeguarding open weight LLMs against adversarial attacks and China's rise in chip manufacturing. - Sam Altman's infrastructure investment plan and debates on AI-generated art by Ted Chiang. Timestamps + Links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:05:15) Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps(00:07:32) Amazon Picks Anthropic to Power Alexa 2.0 (00:12:12) Forget Sora — MiniMax is a new realistic AI video generator and it’s seriously impressive Applications & Business(00:14:56) Ilya Sutskever’s startup, Safe Superintelligence, raises $1B (00:22:20) TSMC’s A16 Process Creates a Buzz Before Mass Production, as OpenAI Reportedly Secures Capacity (00:29:13) Amazon hires the founders of AI robotics startup Covariant (00:33:33) OpenAI weighs changes to corporate structure amid latest funding talks (00:37:43) Chinese GPU-maker XCT, once valued at $2.1B, is on the verge of collapse — shareholders now suing founder (00:40:34) TSMC aims to ready next-gen silicon photonics for AI in 5 years Projects & Open Source(00:44:10) Alibaba releases new AI model Qwen2-VL that can analyze videos more than 20 minutes long Research & Advancements(00:48:32) Fire-Flyer AI-HPC: A Cost-Effective Software-Hardware Co-Design for Deep Learning (00:55:52) 100M Token Context Windows (01:03:50) Smaller, Weaker, Yet Better: Training LLM Reasoners via Compute-Optimal Sampling (01:06:16) AnyGraph : An Effective and Efficient Graph Foundation Model Designed to Address the Multifaceted Challenges of Structure and Feature Heterogeneity Across Diverse Graph Datasets Policy & Safety(01:08:16) California Legislature Approves Bill Proposing Sweeping A.I. Restrictions (01:11:14) Tamper-Resistant Safeguards for Open-Weight LLMs (01:17:12) China's chip capabilities just 3 years behind TSMC, teardown shows (01:20:50) China Threatens to Cut Off ASML Over New US Chip Curbs (01:23:22) Altman Infrastructure Plan Aims to Spend Tens of Billions in US Synthetic Media & Art(01:26:23) NaNoWriMo is in disarray after organizers defend AI writing tools (01:28:54) Tom Hanks warns followers to be wary of 'fraudulent' ads using his likeness through AI (01:30:48) Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art (01:34:28) Outro

    1h 39m

  2. 15 SEPT

    #181 - Google Chatbots, Cerebras vs Nvidia, AI Doom, ElevenLabs Controversy

    Our 181st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris 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 contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai In this episode: - Google's AI advancements with Gemini 1.5 models and AI-generated avatars, along with Samsung's lithography progress. - Microsoft's Inflection usage caps for Pi, new AI inference services by Cerebrus Systems competing with Nvidia. - Biases in AI, prompt leak attacks, and transparency in models and distributed training optimizations, including the 'distro' optimizer. - AI regulation discussions including California’s SB1047, China's AI safety stance, and new export restrictions impacting Nvidia’s AI chips. Timestamps + Links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:03:08)Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps(00:09:19) Google’s custom AI chatbots have arrived (00:12:52) Google releases three new experimental AI models (00:17:14) Google Gemini will let you create AI-generated people again (00:22:32) Five months after Microsoft hired its founders, Inflection adds usage caps to Pi (00:26:42:) Plaud takes a crack at a simpler AI pin Applications & Business(00:30:31) Cerebras Systems throws down gauntlet to Nvidia with launch of ‘world’s fastest’ AI inference service (00:41:06) Nvidia announces $50 billion stock buyback (00:46:24) OpenAI in talks to raise funding that would value it at more than $100 billion (00:50:44) OpenAI Aims to Release New AI Model, ‘Strawberry,’ in Fall (00:52:53) 3 Co-Founders Leave French AI Startup H Amid ‘Operational Differences’ (00:57:29) Samsung to Adopt High-NA Lithography Alongside Intel, Ahead of TSMC (01:02:11) Unitree's $16,000 G1 could become the first mainstream humanoid robot Projects & Open Source(01:04:59) Meta leads open-source AI boom, Llama downloads surge 10x year-over-year (01:09:08) A_Preliminary_Report_on_DisTrO. Research & Advancements(01:13:56) Diffusion Models Are Real-Time Game Engines (01:23:18) LLM Defenses Are Not Robust to Multi-Turn Human Jailbreaks Yet (01:32:21) Interviewing AI researchers on automation of AI R&D (01:40:33) Anthropic releases AI model system prompts, winning praise for transparency Policy & Safety(01:47:12) U.S. AI Safety Institute Signs Agreements Regarding AI Safety Research, Testing and Evaluation With Anthropic and OpenAI (01:50:46) China’s Views on AI Safety Are Changing—Quickly (01:56:27) Poll: 7 in 10 Californians Support SB1047, Will Blame Governor Newsom for AI-Enabled Catastrophe if He Vetoes (02:01:31) Elon Musk voices support for California bill requiring safety tests on AI models (02:03:55) Chinese Engineers Reportedly Accessing NVIDIA’s High-End AI Chips Through Decentralized “GPU Rental Services” (02:08:25) U.S. gov't tightens China restrictions on supercomputer component sales Synthetic Media & Art(02:11:13) Actors Say AI Voice-Over Generator ElevenLabs Cloned Likenesses (02:14:06) Outro

    2h 17m

  3. 3 SEPT

    #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/ 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 contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai 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

    2h 5m

  4. 20 AUG

    #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/ 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 contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai 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

    1h 58m

  5. 16 AUG

    #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 contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai 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

    2h 6m

  6. 11 AUG

    #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. 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 contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai (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

    1h 53m

  7. 3 AUG

    #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)   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 contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai (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

    1h 26m

  8. 25 JUL

    #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.   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 contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai   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

    1h 47m
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