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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...

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

In this episode of Last Week in AI, hosts Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremy Harris discuss major advancements in AI, including OpenAI's prototype SearchGPT, Google's Flash Gemini 1.5 model, and Meta's LLaMa 3.1 model. They also explore NVIDIA's new GPUs for the Chinese market, Cohere's significant funding round, and DeepMind's achievements in mathematics. Key topics include OpenAI's efforts in AI safety, regulatory issues, and implications of Sam Altman's universal basic income study. Additionally, the conversation covers legislative efforts to reverse a Supreme Court ruling affecting AI regulation and strikes by video game performers over AI usage in contracts.

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Timestamps + links:

• (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