#167 - GPT-4o, Project Astra, Veo, OpenAI Departures, Interview with Andrey

Our 170th 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 [email protected] and/or [email protected] Timestamps + Links: Tools & Apps(00:03:33) KLING is the latest AI video generator that could rival OpenAI's Sora (00:09:16) ‘Apple Intelligence’ will automatically choose between on-device and cloud-powered AI (00:12:21) Udio introduces new udio-130 music generation model and more advanced features (00:14:38) Perplexity AI’s new feature will turn your searches into shareable pages (00:16:35) ElevenLabs’ AI generator makes explosions or other sound effects with just a prompt (00:18:37) Google’s updated AI-powered NotebookLM expands to India, UK and over 200 other countries Applications & Business(00:19:40) OpenAI is restarting its robotics research group (00:25:01) Saudi fund invests in China effort to create rival to OpenAI (00:29:34) UAE seeks ‘marriage’ with US over artificial intelligence deals (00:33:01) Zoox to test self-driving cars in Austin and Miami  (00:35:49) Microsoft Lays Off 1,500 Workers, Blames "AI Wave" (00:38:28) Avengers, assemble—Google, Intel, Microsoft, AMD and more team up to develop an interconnect standard to rival Nvidia's NVLink Projects & Open Source(00:40:39) GLM-4-9B-Chat-1M (00:46:37) Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics show off first project: an open source robot that does chores (00:49:40) Zyphra debuts Zyda, a 1.3T language modeling dataset it claims outperforms Pile, C4, arxiv (00:51:59) Stability AI debuts new Stable Audio Open for sound design Research & Advancements(00:54:05) Scaling and evaluating sparse autoencoders (01:04:54) Improving Alignment and Robustness with Short Circuiting (01:12:11) Automatic Data Curation for Self-Supervised Learning: A Clustering-Based Approach (01:16:20) GPT-4 didn't ace the bar exam after all, MIT research suggests — it didn't even break the 70th percentile Policy & Safety(01:20:11) Former OpenAI researcher foresees AGI reality in 2027 (01:28:03) OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ‘Reckless’ Race for Dominance (01:33:52) Testing and mitigating elections-related risks (01:36:26) Teams of LLM Agents can Exploit Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Synthetic Media & Art(01:43:23) The Uncanny Rise of the World's First AI Beauty Pageant (01:46:25) Outro + AI Song

Our 168th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Feel free to leave us feedback here: https://forms.gle/ngXvXZpNJxaAprDv6 Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected] Timestamps + Links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:02:55) Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps (00:04:33) Google’s A.I. Search Errors Cause a Furor Online (00:10:56) Telegram gets an in-app Copilot bot (00:13:13) Opera is adding Google's Gemini AI to its browser (0016:13) Amazon plans to give Alexa an AI overhaul — and a monthly subscription price (00:19:15) Microsoft Edge will translate and dub YouTube videos as you’re watching them (00:21:12) Iyo thinks its gen AI earbuds can succeed where Humane and Rabbit stumbled Applications & Business (00:24:57) PwC agrees deal to become OpenAI's first reseller and largest enterprise user (00:30:07) Vox Media and The Atlantic sign content deals with OpenAI (00:36:27) OpenAI launches programs making ChatGPT cheaper for schools and nonprofits (00:40:03) Huawei patent reveals 3nm-class process technology plans — China continues to move forward despite US sanctions (00:44:32) Nvidia, Powered by A.I. Boom, Reports Soaring Revenue and Profits (00:48:16) Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6 billion in latest funding round Projects & Open Source (00:51:13) Scale AI publishes its first LLM Leaderboards, ranking AI model performance in specific domains (00:56:04) Cohere For AI Launches Aya 23, 8 and 35 Billion Parameter Open Weights Release (01:00:45) Who will make AlphaFold3 open source? Scientists race to crack AI model (01:04:07) Mistral releases Codestral, its first generative AI model for code Research & Advancements (01:09:23) The Road Less Scheduled (01:14:10) Training Compute of Frontier AI Models Grows by 4-5x per Year (01:21:33) gzip Predicts Data-dependent Scaling Laws (01:25:51) Neural Scaling Laws for Embodied AI (01:28:47) Contextual Position Encoding: Learning to Count What’s Important (01:33:09) New AI products much hyped but not much used, study says Policy & Safety (01:37:00) Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting (01:46:36) OpenAI researcher who resigned over safety concerns joins Anthropic (01:49:16) Leaked OpenAI Documents Show Sam Altman Was Clearly Aware of Silencing Former Employees (01:54:33) OpenAI Board Forms Safety and Security Committee (01:58:07) Robocaller Who Used AI to Clone Biden’s Voice Fined $6 Million (01:59:08) Hacker Releases Jailbroken "Godmode" Version of ChatGPT (02:00:46) China Creates $47.5 Billion Chip Fund to Back Nation’s Firms Synthetic Media & Art (02:02:23) Alphabet, Meta Offer Millions to Partner With Hollywood on AI (02:04:21) Outro + AI Song

Our 168th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With guest host Gavin Purcell from AI for Humans podcast! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected] Timestamps + Links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter + Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps (00:08:00) OpenAI says Sky voice in ChatGPT will be paused after concerns it sounds too much like Scarlett Johansson (00:16:14) Microsoft’s Copilot assistant is getting a GPT-4o upgrade + Recall is Microsoft’s key to unlocking the future of PCs (00:21:36) ElevenLabs Launches AI-Voiced Screen Reader App (00:22:40) Adobe Lightroom gets a magic eraser, and it’s impressive (00:25:07) Microsoft, Khan Academy provide free AI assistant for all educators in US (00:27:40) Microsoft Paint is getting an AI-powered image generator that responds to your text prompts and doodles Applications & Business (00:29:16) OpenAI founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman go on the defensive after top safety researchers quit (00:36:58) OpenAI, WSJ Owner News Corp Strike Content Deal Valued at Over $250 Million (00:41:27) CoreWeave Raises $7.5 Billion in Debt for AI Computing Push (00:44:13) Google announced Trillium, its sixth generation of Tensor processors. (00:45:09) Inflection AI reveals new team and plan to embed emotional AI in business bots (00:47:01) Data-labeling startup Scale AI raises $1B as valuation doubles to $13.8B Projects & Open Source (00:48:35) Abacus AI Releases Smaug-Llama-3-70B-Instruct: The New Benchmark in Open-Source Conversational AI Rivaling GPT-4 Turbo (00:52:24) Introducing New Chatbot Arena Category: Hard Prompts (00:54:56) Microsoft brings out a small language model that can look at pictures Research & Advancements (00:56:05) New Anthropic Research Sheds Light on AI's 'Black Box' (01:04:03) Chameleon: Mixed-Modal Early-Fusion Foundation Models (01:08:14) SpeechVerse: A Large-scale Generalizable Audio Language Model (01:09:05) CAT3D: Create Anything in 3D with Multi-View Diffusion Models (01:11:17) Coin3D: Controllable and Interactive 3D Assets Generation with Proxy-Guided Conditioning (01:12:10) SpeechGuard: Exploring the Adversarial Robustness of Multimodal Large Language Models Policy & Safety (01:15:01) World’s first major law for artificial intelligence gets final EU green light (01:17:18) Colorado governor signs sweeping AI regulation bill (01:22:10) Senators Propose $32 Billion in Annual A.I. Spending but Defer Regulation (01:23:25) Google DeepMind launches new framework to assess the dangers of AI models (01:25:05) Tech giants pledge AI safety commitments — including a ‘kill switch’ if they can’t mitigate risks Synthetic Media & Art (01:28:32) Sony Music warns tech companies over ‘unauthorized’ use of its content to train AI (01:32:34) Hollywood agency CAA aims to help stars manage their own AI likenesses (01:38:28) What Do You Do When A.I. Takes Your Voice? (01:42:01) Outro + AI Song

Our 167th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With guest host Daliana Liu (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dalianaliu/) from The Data Scientist Show! And a special one-time interview with Andrey in the latter part of the podcast. Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected] Timestamps + links: Intro / Banter Tools & Apps (00:03:42) OpenAI releases GPT-4o, a faster model that’s free for all ChatGPT users (00:12:06) Project Astra is the future of AI at Google (00:18:06) Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down (00:19:39) Google unveils Veo and Imagen 3, its latest AI media creation models (00:23:36) Google Unveils Music AI Sandbox Making Loops From Prompts (00:26:27) Anthropic AI Launches a Prompt Engineering Tool that Generates Production-Ready Prompts in the Anthropic Console Applications & Business (00:31:02) OpenAI’s Chief Scientist and Co-Founder Is Leaving the Company (00:35:15) Mike Krieger joins Anthropic as Chief Product Officer (00:36:28) $16k G1 humanoid rises up to smash nuts, twist and twirl (00:41:02) GM's Cruise to start testing robotaxis in Phoenix area with human safety drivers on board (00:42:52) US agency probes Amazon-owned Zoox self-driving vehicles after two crashes (00:43:58) Waymo’s robotaxis under investigation after crashes and traffic mishaps Projects & Open Source (00:44:48) Introducing PaliGemma, Gemma 2, and an Upgraded Responsible AI Toolkit (00:46:24) Falcon 2: UAE’s Technology Innovation Institute Releases New AI Model Series, Outperforming Meta’s New Llama 3 (00:48:00) License to Call: Introducing Transformers Agents 2.0 Research & Advancements (00:49:22) The Platonic Representation Hypothesis (00:53:08) SUTRA: Scalable Multilingual Language Model Architecture Policy & Safety (00:54:46) Bipartisan Senate bill on AI security would bolster voluntary cyber reporting processes (00:56:17) U.K. agency releases tools to test AI model safety (00:57:25) Protesters Are Fighting to Stop AI, but They’re Split on How to Do It Synthetic Media & Art (00:58:54) Google’s invisible AI watermark will help identify generative text and video (01:00:50) How One Author Pushed the Limits of AI Copyright (01:03:27) Stellaris gets an DLC about AI that features AI-created voices, director insists it's 'ethical' and 'we're pretty good at exploring dystopian sci-fi and don't want to end up there ourselves' (01:04:46) At the AI Film Festival, humanity triumphed over tech (01:06:37) Daliana Interviews Andrey (01:42:00) AI Outro Song

Our 166th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected] Timestamps + links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter Tools & Apps(00:04:23) ElevenLabs previews music-generating AI model (00:09:31) Mysterious “gpt2-chatbot” AI model appears suddenly, confuses experts (00:13:00) SoundHound AI and Perplexity Partner to Bring Online LLMs to Next Gen Voice Assistants Across Cars and IoT Devices (00:14:50) Stability AI sows gen AI discord with Stable Artisan (00:16:35) Apple Will Revamp Siri to Catch Up to Its Chatbot Competitors (00:18:54) Alibaba rolls out latest version of its large language model to meet robust AI demand Applications & Business(00:19:34) OpenAI and Stack Overflow partner to bring more technical knowledge into ChatGPT (00:17:31) New Microsoft AI model may challenge GPT-4 and Google Gemini (00:31:08) Wayve, an A.I. Start-Up for Autonomous Driving, Raises $1 Billion (00:32:00) Motional delays commercial robotaxi plans amid restructuring (00:33:54) The rise of the Chinese AI unicorns doing battle with OpenAI Projects & Open Source(00:35:25) Prometheus 2: An Open Source Language Model Specialized in Evaluating Other Language Models (00:40:12) DeepSeek-V2: A Strong, Economical, and Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Language Model (00:44:31) OpenVoice V2: Evolving Multilingual Voice Cloning with Enhanced Style Control and Cross-Lingual Capabilities (00:45:20) Granite Code Models: A Family of Open Foundation Models for Code Intelligence (00:46:00) Hugging Face launches LeRobot open source robotics code library (00:48:50) Vibe-Eval: A new open and hard evaluation suite for measuring progress of multimodal language models Research & Advancements(00:50:02) Google DeepMind’s Groundbreaking AI for Protein Structure Can Now Model DNA (00:57:20) xLSTM: Extended Long Short-Term Memory (01:06:35) StoryDiffusion: Consistent Self-Attention for Long-Range Image and Video Generation (01:07:55) Chain of Thought Empowers Transformers to Solve Inherently Serial Problems (01:11:48) KAN: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks Policy & Safety(01:13:20) US lawmakers unveil bill to make it easier to restrict exports of AI models (01:17:30) OpenAI’s Model Spec outlines some basic rules for AI (01:20:18) Robot dogs armed with AI-targeting rifles undergo US Marines Special Ops evaluation (01:25:15) OpenAI Releases ‘Deepfake’ Detector to Disinformation Researchers Synthetic Media & Art(01:28:15) Audible’s Test of AI-Voiced Audiobooks Tops 40,000 Titles (01:32:30) TikTok will automatically label AI-generated content created on platforms like DALL·E 3 (01:33:23) Katy Perry's Fan-Made AI Image Is So Real It Fooled the World Into Thinking She Was at the Met Gala (01:35:32) South Korean woman falls for deepfake Elon Musk, loses $50K in romance scam  (01:37:18) Why young Russian women appear so eager to marry Chinese men (01:40:18) AI Outro Song

Our 165th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected] Timestamps + links: Tools & Apps(00:01:27) GitHub releases an AI-powered tool aiming for a 'radically new way of building software' (00:07:05) China unveils Sora challenger able to produce videos from text similar to OpenAI tool, though much shorter (00:12:23) ChatGPT’s AI ‘memory’ can remember the preferences of paying customers (00:14:21) Rabbit R1 review: Avoid this AI gadget (00:18:30) Amazon Q, a generative AI-powered assistant for businesses and developers, is now generally available (00:19:54) Yelp’s Assistant AI bot will do all the talking to help users find service providers Applications & Business(00:21:31) Video of super-fast, super-smooth humanoid robot will drop your jaw (00:25:22) Tesla’s 2 million car Autopilot recall is now under federal scrutiny (00:29:32) Tesla shares soar as Elon Musk returns from China with FSD 'Game Changer' (00:32:11) OpenAI inks strategic tie-up with UK’s Financial Times, including content use (00:35:21) OpenAI Startup Fund quietly raises $15M (00:37:00) Huawei backs HBM memory manufacturing in China to sidestep crippling US sanctions that restrict AI development Research & Advancements(00:39:20) Capabilities of Gemini Models in Medicine (00:45:34) Let's Think Dot by Dot: Hidden Computation in Transformer Language Models (00:52:20) NExT: Teaching Large Language Models to Reason about Code Execution (00:55:08) SenseNova 5.0: China’s latest AI model surpasses OpenAI’s GPT-4 (00:57:20) Octopus v4: Graph of language models (01:00:28) Better & Faster Large Language Models via Multi-token Prediction Policy & Safety(01:03:15) Refusal in LLMs is mediated by a single direction (01:09:19) Rishi Sunak promised to make AI safe. Big Tech’s not playing ball. (01:15:09) DOE Announces New Actions to Enhance America’s Global Leadership in Artificial Intelligence (01:18:21) The Chips Act is rebuilding US semiconductor manufacturing, so far resulting in $327 billion in announced projects (01:20:50) Analysis-Second global AI safety summit faces tough questions, lower turnout (01:24:03) Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, and more join the federal AI safety board Synthetic Media & Art(01:26:30) Air Head creators say OpenAI's Sora finicky to work with, needs hundreds of prompts, serious VFX work for under 2 minutes of cohesive story ↺ (01:29:50) Eight newspaper publishers sue OpenAI over copyright infringement

Our 164th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected] Timestamps + links: Tools & Apps (00:04:02) Meta, in Its Biggest A.I. Push, Places Smart Assistants Across Its Apps (00:07:26) Microsoft launches Phi-3, its smallest AI model yet (00:15:35) The Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses have multimodal AI now (00:17:32) OpenAI winds down AI image generator that blew minds and forged friendships in 2022 (00:18:44) Baidu claims 200 million users for Ernie chatbot after only 13 months (00:21:13) The new Adobe Photoshop gets an in-app image generator, major Generative Fill upgrades Applications & Business (00:22:22) Intel & The Pentagon Deepen Ties To Develop World’s Most Advanced Chips (00:27:58) Meta Says It Plans to Spend Billions More on A.I. (00:31:36) OpenAI CEO Sam Altman invests in solar power firm Exowatt to fuel AI datacenters (00:33:58) Google consolidates AI-focused DeepMind, Research teams (00:36:22) Microsoft and OpenAI bet $100 billion to free themselves from the shackles and overreliance on the world's most profitable semiconductor chip brand for AI chips Projects & Open Source (00:39:03) Apple releases OpenELM: small, open source AI models designed to run on-device (00:44:12) Snowflake launches Arctic, an open ‘mixture-of-experts’ LLM to take on DBRX, Llama 3 Research & Advancements (00:48:08) The Instruction Hierarchy: Training LLMs to Prioritize Privileged Instructions (00:55:11) Groq’s breakthrough AI chip achieves blistering 800 tokens per second on Meta’s LLaMA 3 (00:59:52) Microsoft shows off VASA-1, an AI framework that makes human headshots talk, sing (01:01:59) Intel Builds World’s Largest Neuromorphic System to Enable More Sustainable AI Policy & Safety (01:05:11) Deepfakes of Bollywood stars spark worries of AI meddling in India election (01:08:51) LLM Agents can Autonomously Exploit One-day Vulnerabilities (01:15:27) The Necessity of AI Audit Standards Boards (01:19:45) A Mechanism-Based Approach to Mitigating Harms from Persuasive Generative AI (01:22:45) COERCING LLMS TO DO AND REVEAL (ALMOST) ANYTHING (01:26:40) China acquired recently banned Nvidia chips in Super Micro, Dell servers, tenders show Synthetic Media & Art (01:29:08) Drake threatened with lawsuit over diss track featuring AI Tupac

Our 163rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Note: apology for this one coming out a few days late, got delayed in editing it -Andrey Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected] Timestamps + links: Intro / Banter Tools & Apps (00:02:16) Meta releases Llama 3, claims it’s among the best open models available (00:14:01) Elon Musk’s xAI Unveils Grok-1.5 Vision, Beats OpenAI’s GPT-4V (00:17:55) Reka releases Reka Core, its multimodal language model to rival GPT-4 and Claude 3 Opus (00:21:50) Cohere Compass Private Beta: A New Multi-Aspect Embedding Model (00:23:48) Amazon Music’s Maestro lets listeners make AI playlists (00:24:36) Snap plans to add watermarks to images created with its AI-powered tools Applications & Business (00:25:52) Boston Dynamics unveils new Atlas robot for commercial use (00:30:32) TSMC’s $65 billion bet still leaves US missing piece of chip puzzle (00:36:30) U.S. blacklists Intel's and Nvidia's key partner in China — three other Chinese firms also included in the blacklist for helping the military (00:38:37) Elon Musk says the next-generation Grok 3 model will require 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs to train (00:40:22) Dr. Andrew Ng appointed to Amazon’s Board of Directors (00:41:55) Collaborative Robotics Locks Up $100M, Latest Robot Startup To Raise Big Projects & Open Source (00:44:08) OpenEQA: Embodied Question Answering in the Era of Foundation Models (00:50:03) Introducing Idefics2: A Powerful 8B Vision-Language Model for the community Research & Advancements (00:51:21) RHO-1: Not All Tokens Are What You Need (00:57:21) Scaling Laws for Fine-Grained Mixture of Experts (01:03:20) Chinchilla Scaling: A replication attempt (01:07:18) China develops new light-based chiplet that could power artificial general intelligence — where AI is smarter than humans (01:10:45) OSWorld: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents for Open-Ended Tasks in Real Computer Environments Policy & Safety (01:13:44) U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo Announces Expansion of U.S. AI Safety Institute Leadership Team (01:17:18) NSA Publishes Guidance for Strengthening AI System Security (01:19:19) Foundational Challenges in Assuring Alignment and Safety of Large Language Models (01:24:11) Former OpenAI Board Member Calls for Audits of Top AI Companies (01:27:35) SoA survey reveals a third of translators and quarter of illustrators losing work to AI Synthetic Media & Art (01:30:25) Medium bans AI-generated content from its paid Partner Program

Our 162nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected] Timestamps + links: Tools & Apps (00:02:50) AI-Music Arms Race: Meet Udio, the Other ChatGPT for Music (00:07:42) Anthropic launches external tool use for Claude AI, enabling stock ticker integrations and more (00:11:51) Building LLMs for Code Repair (00:14:16) Early Reviews of Humane AI Pin Aren’t Impressed (00:16:23) Microsoft 365’s Copilot gets a GPT-4 Turbo upgrade and improved image generation (00:18:41) AI editing tools are coming to all Google Photos users Applications & Business (00:19:21) Google announces the Cloud TPU v5p, its most powerful AI accelerator yet (00:23:32) Meta unveils its newest custom AI chip as it races to catch up (00:27:27) Intel Unveils New AI Accelerator in Bid to Challenge Nvidia (00:30:46) Adobe Is Buying Videos for $3 Per Minute to Build AI Model (00:32:55) OpenAI transcribed over a million hours of YouTube videos to train GPT-4 (00:36:23) Waymo will launch paid robotaxi service in Los Angeles on Wednesday (00:37:23) OpenAI removes Sam Altman's ownership of its Startup Fund Projects & Open Source (00:39:51) Mistral AI Stuns With Surprise Launch of New Mixtral 8x22B Model (00:43:54) Google updates its Gemma AI model family with variants for coding and research (00:47:04) Aurora-M: The First Open Source Multilingual Language Model Red-teamed according to the U.S. Executive Order Research & Advancements (00:52:08) Mixture-of-Depths: Dynamically allocating compute in transformer-based language models (00:57:41) Leave No Context Behind: Efficient Infinite Context Transformers with Infini-attention (01:03:31) Octopus v2: On-device language model for super agent (01:07:54) Bigger is not Always Better: Scaling Properties of Latent Diffusion Models (01:09:54) Many-shot Jailbreaking Policy & Safety (01:15:08) Schiff unveils AI training transparency measure (01:20:25) Linwei Ding was a Google software engineer. He was also a prolific thief of trade secrets, say prosecutors. (01:26:11) Responsible Reporting for Frontier AI Development (01:30:08) US govt wants to talk to tech companies about AI electricity demands — eyes nuclear fusion and fission (01:32:39) Washington state judge blocks use of AI-enhanced video as evidence in possible first-of-its-kind ruling (01:36:45) Trudeau announces $2.4 billion for AI-related investments Synthetic Media & Art (01:39:26) Billie Eilish, Pearl Jam, Nicki Minaj Among 200 Artists Calling for Responsible AI Music Practices Fun! (01:41:52) OpenAI's Sora just made its first music video and it's like a psychedelic trip

Our 161st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Check out our sponsor, the SuperDataScience podcast. You can listen to SDS across all major podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts) plus there’s a video version on YouTube. Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected] Note - one extra story we didn't get to but worth knowing from this week: ‘Totally surreal’: OpenAI shares first short films created with new AI tool Sora Timestamps + links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter Tools & Apps (00:05:20) Google starts testing AI overviews from SGE in main Google search interface (00:10:00) Adobe’s new GenStudio platform is an AI factory for advertisers (00:13:53) Claude-3 Haiku has reached GPT-4 level by our user preference (00:15:26) Microsoft Teams is getting smarter Copilot AI features (00:17:16) Samsung is beating Apple in the race to bring AI to smartphones (00:19:18) Elon Musk says all premium subscribers on X will gain access to AI chatbot Grok this week Applications & Business (00:22:36) Stability AI CEO resigns to ‘pursue decentralized AI’ (00:26:43) Amazon spends $2.75 billion on AI startup Anthropic in its largest venture investment yet (00:31:16) Intel Gaudi 2 Accelerators Showcase Competitive Performance Per Dollar Against NVIDIA H100 In MLPerf 4.0 GenAI Benchmarks (00:33:43) Chip Startup Celestial AI Lands Massive $175M Series C (00:36:10) Accenture Invests in Sanctuary AI to Bring AI-Powered, Humanoid Robotics to Work Alongside Humans (00:37:44) Humanoid robots are joining the Mercedes-Benz workforce Projects & Open Source (00:38:40) Introducing DBRX: A New State-of-the-Art Open LLM (00:44:06) Common Corpus: A Large Public Domain Dataset for Training LLMs (00:46:07) DROID: A Large-Scale In-the-Wild Robot Manipulation Dataset (00:48:15) InternLM2 Technical Report Research & Advancements (00:51:49) TacticAI: an AI assistant for football tactics (00:55:44) On the Conversational Persuasiveness of Large Language Models: A Randomized Controlled Trial (00:59:26) AutoDev: Automated AI-Driven Development (01:02:48) Reverse Training to Nurse the Reversal Curse (01:07:43) Cobra: Extending Mamba to Multi-Modal Large Language Model for Efficient Inference (01:09:48) Gamba: Marry Gaussian Splatting with Mamba for single view 3D reconstruction Policy & Safety (01:11:12) General Assembly adopts landmark resolution on artificial intelligence (01:16:24) Israel Deploys Expansive Facial Recognition Program in Gaza (01:19:49) LINEARITY OF RELATION DECODING IN TRANSFORMER LANGUAGE MODELS (01:24:52) US Weighs Sanctioning Huawei’s Secretive Chinese Chip Network (01:27:51) New York City welcomes robotaxis — but only with safety drivers (01:28:40) The White House Puts New Guardrails on Government Use of AI Synthetic Media & Art (01:31:17) BBC Will Stop Using AI For ‘Doctor Who’ Promotion After Receiving Complaints