#176 - BIG WEEK for OSS! SearchGPT, Lamma 3.1 405B, Mistral Large 2
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Our 176th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

NOTE: apologies for this episode coming out about a week late, things got in the way of editing it...

With hosts Andrey Kurenkov) (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris) (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)

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(00:00:00) Intro Song

(00:00:34) Intro Banter

Tools & Apps (00:03:39) OpenAI announces SearchGPT, its AI-powered search engine)

(00:08:03) Google gives free Gemini users access to its faster, lighter 1.5 Flash AI model)

(00:09:10) X launches underwhelming Grok-powered ‘More About This Account’ feature)

(00:11:36) Kuaishou Launches Full Beta Testing for 'Kling AI' to Global Users, Elevates Model Capabilities)

(00:13:39) Adobe rolls out more generative AI features to Illustrator and Photoshop)

(00:14:25) Meta AI gets new ‘Imagine me’ selfie feature)

Projects & Open Source (00:15:19) Meta releases open-source AI model it says rivals OpenAI, Google tech)

(00:28:23) Mistral AI Unveils Mistral Large 2, Beats Llama 3.1 on Code and Math)

(00:34:00) Groq’s open-source Llama AI model tops leaderboard, outperforming GPT-4o and Claude in function calling)

(00:36:35) Apple shows off open AI prowess: new models outperform Mistral and Hugging Face offerings)

Applications & Business (00:40:25) Elon Musk wants Tesla to invest $5 billion into his newest startup, xAI — if shareholders approve)

(00:43:01) Nvidia said to be prepping Blackwell GPUs for Chinese market)

(00:46:28) Toronto AI company Cohere to indemnify customers who are sued for any copyright violations)

(00:49:09) AI startup Cohere raises US$500-million, valuing company at US$5.5-billion)

Research & Advancements (00:52:01) AI achieves silver-medal standard solving International Mathematical Olympiad problems)

(00:56:47) A Multimodal Automated Interpretability Agent)

(01:00:56) MINT-1T: Scaling Open-Source Multimodal Data by 10x: A Multimodal Dataset with One Trillion Tokens)

Policy & Safety (01:02:56) Improving Model Safety Behavior with Rule-Based Rewards)

(01:06:39) Senators demand OpenAI detail efforts to make its AI safe)

(01:10:59) OpenAI reassigns top AI safety executive Aleksandr Madry to role focused on AI reasoning)

(01:13:08) As new tech threatens jobs, Silicon Valley promotes no-strings cash aid)

(01:17:33) Democratic senators seek to reverse Supreme Court ruling that restricts federal agency power)

Synthetic Media & Art (01:20:58) Video game performers will go on strike over artificial intelligence concerns)

(01:23:03) Outro

(01:23:58) AI Song