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Last Week in AI

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  • Weekly summaries and discussion about the most interesting developments in AI, deep learning, robotics, and more!
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  • #173 - Gemini Pro, Llama 400B, Gen-3 Alpha, Moshi, Supreme Court

    #173 - Gemini Pro, Llama 400B, Gen-3 Alpha, Moshi, Supreme Court
    Jul 7 2024
    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/ 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 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 / BanterTools & 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 and 50 mins
  • #172 - Claude and Gemini updates, Gemma 2, GPT-4 Critic

    #172 - Claude and Gemini updates, Gemma 2, GPT-4 Critic
    Jul 1 2024
    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) 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 / BanterTools & 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 ModelsMitigating 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 and 51 mins
  • #171 - Apple Intelligence, Dream Machine, SSI Inc

    #171 - Apple Intelligence, Dream Machine, SSI Inc
    Jun 24 2024
    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) Feel free to leave us feedback here. Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai and/or hello@gladstone.ai Timestamps + Links: (00:00:00) Intro / BanterTools & 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 DirectionSycophancy 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 hrs and 4 mins
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