#160 - Nvidia's new GPU, Microsoft pays for Inflection AI, Grok-1 open sourced, Jeremie's Action Plan
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Our 160th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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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))