#162 - Udio Song AI, TPU v5, Mixtral 8x22, Mixture-of-Depths, Musicians sign open letter

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

Our 160th 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 (00:01:36) Adobe Substance 3D’s AI features can turn text into backgrounds and textures (00:05:04) OpenAI’s chatbot store is filling up with spam (00:11:02) Apple’s AI ambitions could include Google or OpenAI Applications & Business (00:13:31) Nvidia reveals Blackwell B200 GPU, the ‘world’s most powerful chip’ for AI (00:19:34) Microsoft to Pay Inflection AI $650 Million After Scooping Up Most of Staff (00:24:33) Figure 01: Conversations & Actions in Humanoid Robotics! (00:28:07) OpenAI's GPT-4.5 Turbo leaked on search engines and could launch in June (00:30:32) Abu Dhabi in talks to invest in OpenAI chip venture (00:33:43) Nvidia Announces GR00T, a Foundation Model For Humanoids Projects & Open Source (00:35:38) Open Release of Grok-1 (00:41:25) Stability AI brings a new dimension to video with Stable Video 3D (00:44:23) Colossal-AI Team Introduces Open-Sora: An Open-Source Library for Video Generation (00:45:43) Evolutionary Optimization of Model Merging Recipes Research & Advancements (00:46:52) DiPaCo: Distributed Path Composition (00:53:58) MM1: Methods, Analysis & Insights from Multimodal LLM Pre-training (00:59:37) PERL: Parameter Efficient Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (01:01:55) VideoAgent: Long-form Video Understanding with Large Language Model as Agent (01:05:38) MusicHiFi: Fast High-Fidelity Stereo Vocoding Policy & Safety (01:06:44) The WMDP Benchmark: Measuring and Reducing Malicious Use With Unlearning (01:12:43) Exclusive: U.S. Must Move ‘Decisively’ to Avert ‘Extinction-Level’ Threat From AI, Government-Commissioned Report Says (01:18:18) Evaluating Frontier Models for Dangerous Capabilities (01:22:55) Chinese and western scientists identify ‘red lines’ on AI risks (01:26:11) Google fined $272M by French government over AI use of news content (01:27:58) Elvis Act Signed Into Tennessee Law to Protect Musicians From AI Deepfakes Synthetic Media & Art (01:30:17) AI-Generated Science (01:35:35) YouTube adds new AI-generated content labeling tool Fun! (01:37:29) 10 of My Most Popular Text-To-Image Series (+Prompts)

Our 159th 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] Timestamps + links: Intro / Banter Tools & Apps (00:03:24) Inflection-2.5: meet the world's best personal AI (00:06:37) Introducing Devin, the first AI software engineer (00:11:00) DoorDash’s new AI-powered ‘SafeChat+’ tool automatically detects verbal abuse (00:12:44) Anthropic releases Claude 3 Haiku, an AI model built for speed and affordability (00:13:30) Pika Labs just added sound effects to its generative AI videos — here’s how it sounds (00:15:33) Salesforce announces new AI tools for doctors Applications & Business (00:17:33) Sam Altman Rejoins OpenAI Board Along With Three New Directors (00:21:15) Cohere releases powerful ‘Command-R’ language model for enterprise use (00:23:16) Building Meta’s GenAI Infrastructure (00:25:53) Baidu Launches China's First 24/7 Robotaxi Service Projects & Open Source (00:26:54) Croissant: a metadata format for ML-ready datasets (00:29:40) SaulLM-7B: A pioneering Large Language Model for Law (00:31:45) Kai-Fu Lee’s AI Company “01.AI” Announces the Open Source of the Yi-9B Model Research & Advancements (00:33:50) A generalist AI agent for 3D virtual environments (00:39:16) Stealing Part of a Production Language Model (00:42:01) Data Interpreter: An LLM Agent For Data Science (00:43:54) ShortGPT: Layers in Large Language Models are More Redundant Than You Expect (00:44:55) PixArt-Σ: Weak-to-Strong Training of Diffusion Transformer for 4K Text-to-Image Generation Policy & Safety (00:46:24) World’s first major act to regulate AI passed by European lawmakers (00:48:57) US spearheads first UN resolution on artificial intelligence — aimed at ensuring equal access (00:51:27) Google restricts election-related queries for its Gemini chatbot Synthetic Media & Art (00:52:43) Researchers tested leading AI models for copyright infringement using popular books, and GPT-4 performed worst (00:55:27) Nvidia Says NeMo AI Platform Complies With Copyright After Authors’ Complaint (00:57:23) Five of this year’s Pulitzer finalists are AI-powered Fun! (00:58:12) I made by Superman action figure talk with Pika Labs’ new AI lip sync tool — watch this

Our 158th 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 (00:01:05) Introducing the next generation of Claude (00:16:05) Competition in AI video generation heats up as Deepmind alums unveil Haiper (00:19:40) Meta AI creates ahistorical images, like Google Gemini (00:22:12) Ideogram Is A New AI Image Generator That Obliterates the Competition, Outperforming MidJourney and Dall-E 3 (00:24:25) Wix’s new AI chatbot builds websites in seconds based on prompts (00:26:34) I used generative AI to turn my story into a comic—and you can too Applications & Business (00:27:40) Elon Musk sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman for putting profits above humanity , OpenAI Fires Back at Musk Allegations With Trove of Emails (00:35:42) Inside the Crisis at Google (00:38:36) It’s official: Waymo robotaxis are now free to use freeways and leave San Francisco (00:40:33) Nvidia's next-gen AI GPUs could draw an astounding 1000 Watts each, a 40 percent increase — Dell spills the beans on B100 and B200 in its earnings call (00:42:43) AI chip startup Groq forms new business unit, acquires Definitive Intelligence Projects & Open Source (00:45:13) StarCoder 2 and The Stack v2: The Next Generation (00:49:05) Introducing TripoSR: Fast 3D Object Generation from Single Images (00:51:21) H2O AI releases Danube, a super-tiny LLM for mobile applications Research & Advancements (00:52:27) AtP*: An efficient and scalable method for localizing LLM behaviour to components (00:58:28) Stable Diffusion 3: Research Paper (01:02:10) Approaching Human-Level Forecasting with Language Models (01:05:34) Here Come the AI Worms (01:08:20) High-speed humanoid feels like a step change in robotics (01:12:26) Functional Benchmarks for Robust Evaluation of Reasoning Performance, and the Reasoning Gap Policy & Safety (01:15:18) India reverses AI stance, requires government approval for model launches (01:19:16) When Your AIs Deceive You: Challenges with Partial Observability of Human Evaluators in Reward Learning (01:24:45) OpenAI signs open letter to build AI responsibly just days after Elon Musk sued the company for putting profit ahead of people (01:27:37) AI-generated articles prompt Wikipedia to downgrade CNET’s reliability rating (01:29:40) Malicious AI models on Hugging Face backdoor users’ machines (01:32:25) China offers AI computing ‘vouchers’ to its underpowered start-ups Synthetic Media & Art (01:34:18) Trump supporters target black voters with faked AI images (01:37:10) AI-Generated Kara Swisher Biographies Flood Amazon (01:39:55) Inside the World of AI TikTok Spammers (01:43:35) Twitter is becoming a 'ghost town' of bots as AI-generated spam content floods the internet Fun! (01:46:35) Man tries to steal driverless car in L.A., doesn’t get far: police

Our 157th 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. Bonus plug: also check out this new book by Stanford AI expert, bestselling author, and Last Week in AI supporter Jerry Kaplan! Generative Artificial Intelligence: What Everyone Needs to Know 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 (00:04:55) Google apologizes for ‘missing the mark’ after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis (00:15:07) Stability announces Stable Diffusion 3, a next-gen AI image generator (00:19:04) Mistral AI releases new model to rival GPT-4 and its own chat assistant (00:24:56) Windows just got its own Magic Eraser to AI-modify your photos (00:25:47) Adobe previews new cutting-edge generative AI tools for crafting and editing custom audio (00:27:47) AI video wars heat up as Pika adds Lip Sync powered by ElevenLabs Applications & Business (00:30:09) Microsoft Strikes Deal with France’s Mistral AI (00:33:45) Figure Raises $675M at $2.6B Valuation and Signs Collaboration Agreement with OpenAI (00:37:05) Nvidia posts record revenue up 265% on booming AI business (00:39:54) MediaTek’s latest chipsets are now ‘optimized’ for Gemini Nano (00:41:28) Tumblr’s owner is striking deals with OpenAI and Midjourney for training data, says report (00:43:45) Mistral AI models coming soon to Amazon Bedrock Projects & Open Source (00:44:34) Generative AI Startup Mistral Releases Free ‘Open-Source’ 7.3B Parameter LLM (00:46:57) Google Delves Deeper Into Open Source with Launch of Gemma AI Model (00:51:10) Microsoft releases its internal generative AI red teaming tool to the public (00:54:25) Introducing Phind-70B – closing the code quality gap with GPT-4 Turbo while running 4x faster Research & Advancements (00:57:51) Genie: Generative Interactive Environments (01:07:08) Griffin: Mixing Gated Linear Recurrences with Local Attention for Efficient Language Models (01:15:16) Quantum Circuit Optimization with AlphaTensor (01:20:56) Back to Basics: Revisiting REINFORCE Style Optimization for Learning from Human Feedback in LLMs (01:22:10) Repetition Improves Language Model Embeddings Policy & Safety (01:25:45) AI Warfare Is Already Here (01:29:36) Man admits to paying magician $150 to create anti-Biden robocall (01:32:45) Google DeepMind forms a new org focused on AI safety (01:34:53)  Facebook whistleblower, AI godfather join hundreds calling for deepfake regulation US regulators investigate whether OpenAI investors were misled, say reports (01:36:51)  Users Say Microsoft's AI Has Alternate Personality as Godlike AGI That Demands to Be Worshipped Synthetic Media & Art (01:40:23) The Intercept, Raw Story, and AlterNet sue OpenAI and Microsoft (01:41:15) A viral photo of a guy smoking in McDonald's is completely fake — and of course made by AI Fun! (01:42:54) Impossible AI Food