Our 205th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Recorded on 03/28/2025
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In this episode:
OpenAI's new image generation capabilities represent significant advancements in AI tools, showcasing impressive benchmarks and multimodal functionalities.
OpenAI is finalizing a historic $40 billion funding round led by SoftBank, and Sam Altman shifts focus to technical direction while COO Brad Lightcap takes on more operational responsibilities.,
Anthropic unveils groundbreaking interpretability research, introducing cross-layer tracers and showcasing deep insights into model reasoning through applications on Claude 3.5.
New challenging benchmarks such as ARC AGI 2 and complex Sudoku variations aim to push the boundaries of reasoning and problem-solving capabilities in AI models.
Timestamps + Links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
(00:01:01) News Preview
Tools & Apps
(00:02:46) Gemini 2.5: Our most intelligent AI model)
(00:08:41) OpenAI rolls out image generation powered by GPT-4o to ChatGPT)
(00:16:14) Ideogram presents version 3.0 of its AI image generation system)
(00:19:20) New Reve Image Generator Beats AI Art Heavyweights MidJourney and Flux at a Penny Per Image)
(00:21:56) Alibaba Releases Qwen2.5 Omni, Adds Voice and Video Modes to Qwen Chat)
(00:23:58) The official version of Tencent's Hunyuan Deep Thinking Model T1 is here, with fast articulation, instant responses, and a decoding speed increase of 2 times)
Applications & Business
(00:25:45) OpenAI Close to Finalizing $40 Billion SoftBank-Led Funding)
(00:29:26) OpenAI reshuffles leadership as Sam Altman pivots to technical focus)
(00:33:23) Nvidia shows off Rubin Ultra with 600,000-Watt Kyber racks and infrastructure, coming in 2027)
(00:35:23) China's SiCarrier emerges as challenger to ASML, other chip tool titans)
(00:38:24) Pony.ai wins first permit for fully driverless taxi operation in the center of China’s Silicon Valley)
Projects & Open Source
(00:40:27) A new, challenging AGI test stumps most AI models)
(00:45:16) Challenging the Boundaries of Reasoning: An Olympiad-Level Math Benchmark for Large Language Models)
(00:48:13) Wan: Open and Advanced Large-Scale Video Generative Models)
(00:50:38) DeepSeek V3-0324 tops non-reasoning AI models in open-source first)
(00:54:46) OpenAI adopts rival Anthropic’s standard for connecting AI models to data)
Research & Advancements
(00:55:56) Anthropic can now track the bizarre inner workings of a large language model)
(01:06:00) Chain-of-Tools: Utilizing Massive Unseen Tools in the CoT Reasoning of Frozen Language Models)
(01:11:50) Inside-Out: Hidden Factual Knowledge in LLMs)
(01:15:14) Sakana AI super-powers AI reasoning using Japan’s own Sudoku Puzzles)
Policy & Safety
(01:18:38) Senator Wiener Introduces Legislation to Protect AI Whistleblowers & Boost Responsible AI Development)
(01:21:50) NVIDIA & Other Tech Giants Demand Trump Administration To Reconsider “AI Diffusion” Policy Which Is Set To Be Effective By May 15)
(01:23:17) U.S. blacklists over 50 Chinese companies in bid to curb Beijing's AI, chip capabilities)
(01:26:44) Netflix’s Reed Hastings Gives $50 Million to Bowdoin for A.I. Program)
(01:27:55) Judge allows 'New York Times' copyright case against OpenAI to go forward)
(01:29:48) Judge rules that AI can continue training on copyrighted lyrics, for now)
