Our 191st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris).
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Timestamps + Links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
(00:02:55) Response to listener comments
(00:09:30) Sponsor Break
Tools & Apps
(00:10:52) OpenAI’s Sora video generator appears to have leaked)
(00:21:11) Mistral unleashes Pixtral Large and upgrades Le Chat into full-on ChatGPT competitor)
(00:26:39) Ignite 2024 introduces new AI agents and more for Microsoft 365 Copilot)
(00:28:50) H, the AI startup that raised $220M, launches its first product: Runner H for ‘agentic’ applications)
(00:31:20) Anthropic bets on personalization in the AI arms race with new ‘styles’ feature)
(00:33:42) ElevenLabs now offers ability to build conversational AI agents)
(00:37:08) Perplexity introduces a shopping feature for Pro users in the U.S.)
(00:38:49) Google’s Gemini chatbot now has memory)
(00:43:03) Suno V4 Ai Music Generator Is Out Now And It’s Very Impressive)
(00:46:28) Introducing FLUX.1 Tools)
(00:49:51) OpenAI just gave ChatGPT a major 'creativity' upgrade)
(00:51:26) Runway launches Frames — a new AI image generator that creates custom worlds)
Applications & Business
(00:54:56) OpenAI Email Archives (from Musk v. Altman))
(01:02:01) Amazon to invest another $4 billion in Anthropic, OpenAI's biggest rival)
(01:05:41) Amazon Robots Struggling to Keep Up With Human Workers)
Projects & Open Source
(01:11:27) DeepSeek’s first reasoning model R1-Lite-Preview turns heads, beating OpenAI o1 performance)
(01:15:30) OpenScholar: The open-source A.I. that’s outperforming GPT-4o in scientific research)
Research & Advancements
(01:18:02) A statistical approach to model evaluations)
(01:22:08) Scaling Laws for Precision)
(01:25:10) Cerebras Delivers Record-Breaking Performance with Meta’s Llama 3.1 405B Model)
Policy & Safety
(01:28:01) Sam Altman will co-chair San Francisco mayor-elect Daniel Lurie’s transition team)
(01:32:21) Biden’s final meeting with Xi Jinping reaps agreement on AI and nukes)
Synthetic Media & Art
(01:33:07) How Did You Do On The AI Art Turing Test?)
(01:38:27) Outro
