#169 - Google's Search Errors, OpenAI news & DRAMA, new leaderboards
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Our 168th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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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