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Our 160th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Timestamps + links:

• Tools & Apps

  • (00:01:36) Adobe Substance 3D’s AI features can turn text into backgrounds and textures

  • (00:05:04) OpenAI’s chatbot store is filling up with spam

  • (00:11:02) Apple’s AI ambitions could include Google or OpenAI

• Applications & Business

  • (00:13:31) Nvidia reveals Blackwell B200 GPU, the ‘world’s most powerful chip’ for AI

  • (00:19:34) Microsoft to Pay Inflection AI $650 Million After Scooping Up Most of Staff

  • (00:24:33) Figure 01: Conversations & Actions in Humanoid Robotics!

  • (00:28:07) OpenAI's GPT-4.5 Turbo leaked on search engines and could launch in June

  • (00:30:32) Abu Dhabi in talks to invest in OpenAI chip venture

  • (00:33:43) Nvidia Announces GR00T, a Foundation Model For Humanoids

• Projects & Open Source

  • (00:35:38) Open Release of Grok-1

  • (00:41:25) Stability AI brings a new dimension to video with Stable Video 3D

  • (00:44:23) Colossal-AI Team Introduces Open-Sora: An Open-Source Library for Video Generation

  • (00:45:43) Evolutionary Optimization of Model Merging Recipes

• Research & Advancements

  • (00:46:52) DiPaCo: Distributed Path Composition

  • (00:53:58) MM1: Methods, Analysis & Insights from Multimodal LLM Pre-training

  • (00:59:37) PERL: Parameter Efficient Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

  • (01:01:55) VideoAgent: Long-form Video Understanding with Large Language Model as Agent

  • (01:05:38) MusicHiFi: Fast High-Fidelity Stereo Vocoding

• Policy & Safety

  • (01:06:44) The WMDP Benchmark: Measuring and Reducing Malicious Use With Unlearning

  • (01:12:43) Exclusive: U.S. Must Move ‘Decisively’ to Avert ‘Extinction-Level’ Threat From AI, Government-Commissioned Report Says

  • (01:18:18) Evaluating Frontier Models for Dangerous Capabilities

  • (01:22:55) Chinese and western scientists identify ‘red lines’ on AI risks

  • (01:26:11) Google fined $272M by French government over AI use of news content

  • (01:27:58) Elvis Act Signed Into Tennessee Law to Protect Musicians From AI Deepfakes

• Synthetic Media & Art

  • (01:30:17) AI-Generated Science

  • (01:35:35) YouTube adds new AI-generated content labeling tool

• Fun!

  • (01:37:29) 10 of My Most Popular Text-To-Image Series (+Prompts)