#189 - Chat.com, FrontierMath, Relaxed Transformers, Trump & AI
Our 189th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.
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In this episode:
* OpenAI's acquisition of chat.com and internal shifts, including hardware lead hire and hardware model leaks, signal significant strategy pivots and challenges with model scaling and security.
* Saudi Arabia plans a $100 billion AI initiative aiming to rival UAE's tech hub, highlighting the region's escalating AI investments.
* U.S. penalties on GlobalFoundries for violating sanctions against SMIC underline ongoing challenges in enforcing AI-chip export controls.
* Anthropic collaborates with Palantir and AWS to integrate CLAWD into defense environments, marking a significant policy shift for the company.
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Timestamps + Links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
(00:01:28) News Preview
(00:02:10) Response to listener comments
(00:05:02) Sponsor Break
Tools & Apps
(00:07:31) OpenAI Introduces ‘Predicted Outputs’ Feature: Speeding Up GPT-4o by ~5x for Tasks like Editing Docs or Refactoring Code
(00:11:55) Anthropic’s Haiku 3.5 surprises experts with an “intelligence” price increase
(00:17:10) Introducing FLUX1.1 [pro] Ultra and Raw Modes
(00:19:11) X is testing a free version of Grok AI chatbot in select regions
Applications & Business
(00:21:39) OpenAI acquired Chat.com
(00:23:40) Saudis Plan $100 Billion AI Powerhouse to Rival UAE Tech Hub
(00:28:28) Meta’s former hardware lead for Orion is joining OpenAI
(00:31:38) OpenAI Accidentally Leaked Its Upcoming o1 Model to Anyone With a Certain Web Address
(00:35:50) Nvidia Rides AI Wave to Pass Apple as World’s Largest Company
Projects & Open Source
(00:37:53) ‘Unrestricted’ AI group Nous Research launches first chatbot — with guardrails
(00:41:48) FrontierMath: The Benchmark that Highlights AI’s Limits in Mathematics
(00:46:29) Hunyuan-Large: An Open-Source MoE Model with 52 Billion Activated Parameters by Tencent
Research & Advancements
(00:49:55) Applying “Golden Gate Claude” mechanistic interpretability techniques to protein language models.
(00:58:3) Relaxed Recursive Transformers: Effective Parameter Sharing with Layer-wise LoRA
(01:05:55) From Naptime to Big Sleep: Using Large Language Models To Catch Vulnerabilities In Real-World Code
(01:10:22) OpenAI reportedly developing new strategies to deal with AI improvement slowdown
Policy & Safety
(01:19:52) What Donald Trump’s Win Means For AI
(01:28:44) Fab Whack-A-Mole: Chinese Companies are Evading U.S. Sanctions
(01:33:57) US fines GlobalFoundries for shipping chips to sanctioned Chinese firm
(01:36:55) Anthropic teams up with Palantir and AWS to sell its AI to defense customers
(01:39:23) Outro
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#188 - ChatGPT+Search, OpenAI+AMD, SimpleQA, π0
Our 188th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.
Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected]
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/.
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In this episode:
* Meta's open-source models utilized by China's military prompt regulatory adjustments; US agencies gain access to counterbalance.
* OpenAI partners with Broadcom and AMD to develop custom AI hardware, aiming for profitability and reducing inference costs.
* Physical Intelligence unveils a generalist robot control policy with a $400M funding boost, showcasing significant advancements in zero-shot task performance.
* New U.S. regulation mandates quarterly reporting for large AI model training and computing cluster acquisitions, aiming to bolster national security.
Timestamps + Links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
(00:02:16) News Preview
(00:03:05) Response to listener comments / corrections
(00:05:00) Sponsor Break
Tools & Apps
(00:06:28) OpenAI’s search engine is now live in ChatGPT
(00:12:18) Image Playground, ChatGPT, and more Apple Intelligence features roll out in beta
(00:14:34) GitHub Copilot will support models from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI
(00:19:00) Introducing the analysis tool in Claude.ai
(00:21:34) ElevenLabs Introduces Voice Design: A New AI Feature that Generates a Unique Voice from a Text Prompt Alone
(00:24:18) Midjourney's new web editor lets you tweak images uploaded from your PC
(00:26:02) Watch out, Midjourney — Recraft just announced new AI image generator model
Applications & Business
(00:29:57) Meta strikes multi-year AI deal with Reuters
(00:33:15) OpenAI will start using AMD chips and could make its own AI hardware in 2026
(00:40:47) Elon Musk's xAI in talks to raise funding valuing it at $40 billion, WSJ reports
(00:46:07) Physical Intelligence, a Robot A.I. Specialist, Raises Millions From Bezos
(00:48:32) Waymo ramps up robotaxi push with $5.6 bn in funding
(00:49:11) Alphabet's Waymo Serving Over 150,000 Paid Robotaxi Rides Every Week Now, Surging 50% In 2 Months
Projects & Open Source
(00:51:23) Meta AI Silently Releases NotebookLlama: An Open Version of Google’s NotebookLM
(00:54:59) Meta Releases Quantized Llama 3.2 with 4x Inference Speed on Android Phones
(00:59:16) OpenAI Releases SimpleQA: A New AI Benchmark that Measures the Factuality of Language Models
Research & Advancements
(01:08:19) This Is a Glimpse of the Future of AI Robot
(01:15:06) Can Language Models Replace Programmers? REPOCOD Says 'Not Yet'
(01:19:01) Brain-like Functional Organization within Large Language Models
(01:21:20) Decart’s AI simulates a real-time, playable version of Minecraft
(01:25:39) Raising the bar on SWE-bench Verified with Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Policy & Safety
(01:29:06) Commerce just proposed the most significant federal AI regulation to date – and no one noticed
(01:35:04)Anthropic warns of AI catastrophe if governments don't regulate in 18 months
(01:39:32) Open Source Bites Back as China’s Military Makes Full Use of Meta AI
(01:46:35) Meta says it’s making its Llama models available for US national security applications
(01:48:16) Outro
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1:51:50
#187 - Anthropic Agents, Mochi1, 3.4B data center, OpenAI's FAST image gen
Our 187th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, now with Jeremie co-hosting once again!
Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris. Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected]
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/.
This episode was sponsored by The Generator.
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Timestamps + Links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
(00:03:07) Response to listener comments / corrections
(00:05:13) Sponsor Read)
Tools & Apps
(00:06:22) Anthropic’s latest AI update can use a computer on its own
(00:18:09) AI video startup Genmo launches Mochi 1, an open source rival to Runway, Kling, and others
(00:20:37) Canva has a shiny new text-to-image generator
(00:23:35) Canvas Beta brings Remix, Extend, and Magic Fill to Ideogram users
(00:26:16) StabilityAI releases Stable Diffusion 3.5
(00:28:27) Bringing Agentic Workflows into Inflection for Enterprise
Applications & Business
(00:32:35) Crusoe’s $3.4B joint venture to build AI data center campus with up to 100,000 GPUs
(00:39:08) Anthropic reportedly in early talks to raise new funding on up to $40B valuation
(00:45:47) Longtime policy researcher Miles Brundage leaves OpenAI
(00:49:53) NVIDIA’s Blackwell GB200 AI Servers Ready For Mass Deployment In December
(00:52:41) Foxconn building Nvidia superchip facility in Mexico, executives say
(00:55:27) xAI, Elon Musk’s AI startup, launches an API
Projects & Open Source
(00:58:32) INTELLECT-1: The First Decentralized 10-Billion-Parameter AI Model Training
(01:06:34) Meta FAIR Releases Eight New AI Research Artifacts—Models, Datasets, and Tools to Inspire the AI Community
(01:10:02) Google DeepMind is making its AI text watermark open source
Research & Advancements
(01:13:21) OpenAI researchers develop new model that speeds up media generation by 50X
(01:17:54) How much AI compute is out there, and who owns it?
(01:25:28) Rewarding Progress: Scaling Automated Process Verifiers for LLM Reasoning
(01:33:30) Inference Scaling for Long-Context Retrieval Augmented Generation
Policy & Safety
(01:41:50) Announcing our updated Responsible Scaling Policy
(01:48:52) Anthropic is testing AI’s capacity for sabotage
(01:56:30) OpenAI asked US to approve energy-guzzling 5GW data centers, report says
(02:00:05) US Probes TSMC’s Dealings with Huawei
(02:03:03) TikTok owner ByteDance taps TSMC to make its own AI GPUs to stop relying on Nvidia — the company has reportedly spent over $2 billion on Nvidia AI GPUs
(02:06:37) Outro
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2:09:38
#186 - Adobe AI Tools, Tesla's Cybercab, Nobel Prizes
Our 186th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov and guest host Jon Krohn from the SuperDataScience Podcast.
Check out Jon’s upcoming agent-focused event here - AI Catalyst: Agentic Artificial Intelligence
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/.
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Timestamps + Links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
(00:04:14) News Preview
(00:05:28) Response to listener comments / corrections
Tools & Apps
(00:07:10) Adobe’s AI video model is here, and it’s already inside Premiere Pro
(00:11:52) Adobe teases AI tools that build 3D scenes, animate text, and make distractions disappear
(00:15:43) Adobe’s Project Super Sonic uses AI to generate sound effects for your videos
(00:17:05) YouTube expands AI audio generation tool to all U.S. creators
(00:20:29) All Gemini users can now generate images with Imagen 3
(00:22:27) Meta AI will launch in six more countries today, including the UK
(00:24:27) OpenAI Unveils Secret Meta Prompt—And It’s Very Different From Anthropic's Approach
Applications & Business
(00:27:46) Tesla’s big ‘We, Robot’ event criticized for ‘parlor tricks’ and vague timelines for robots, Cybercab, Robovan
(00:37:25) OpenAI announces content deal with Hearst, including content from Cosmopolitan, Esquire and the San Francisco Chronicle
Projects & Open Source
(00:47:59) OpenR: An Open-Source AI Framework Enhancing Reasoning in Large Language Models
(00:49:54) MLE-bench: Evaluating Machine Learning Agents on Machine Learning Engineering
(00:56:29) OpenAI Releases Swarm: An Experimental AI Framework for Building, Orchestrating, and Deploying Multi-Agent Systems
Research & Advancements
(00:59:23) Nobel Physics Prize Awarded for Pioneering A.I. Research by 2 Scientists
(01:05:22) Nobel Prize in Chemistry Goes to 3 Scientists for Predicting and Creating Proteins
(01:09:09) LLMs can’t perform “genuine logical reasoning,” Apple researchers suggest
(01:13:05) GSM-Symbolic: Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Models
Policy & Safety
(01:14:34) Anthropic CEO goes full techno-optimist in 15,000-word paean to AI
(01:23:04) Google will help build seven nuclear reactors to power its AI systems
(01:24:11) LLMs Know More Than They Show: On the Intrinsic Representation of LLM Hallucinations
Synthetic Media & Art
(01:26:26) Adobe Pushes Content Authenticity Forward With a Free Web App Designed for Creators
(01:29:13) Outro
Our 185th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov and guest host Gavin Purcell from the AI for Humans podcast.
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/.
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In this episode:
Meta's MovieGen introduces innovative features in AI video generation, alongside OpenAI's real-time speech API and expanded ChatGPT capabilities.
Mio's foundation model and Apple's Depth Pro enhance multimodal AI inputs and precise 3D imaging for AR, VR, and robotics.
Microsoft and OpenAI's strategic advancements highlight significant financial moves and AI enhancements, including Microsoft's enhanced Copilot.
AI policy discussions intensify as California's vetoed bill sparks debates on regulation, alongside Google's $1 billion investment to expand AI infrastructure in Thailand.
Timestamps + Links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
(00:02:51) Response to listener comments / corrections
Tools & Apps(00:03:48) Meta announces Movie Gen, an AI-powered video generator
(00:14:28) OpenAI launches new ‘Canvas’ ChatGPT interface tailored to writing and coding projects
(00:19:31) OpenAI’s DevDay brings Realtime API and other treats for AI app developers
(00:24:43) Black Forest Labs releases Flux 1.1 Pro and an API
(00:28:30) Microsoft gives Copilot a voice and vision in its biggest redesign yet
(00:32:36) Pika 1.5 is now live — AI video generator just got major upgrades
Applications & Business(00:37:49) OpenAI closes the largest VC round of all time
(00:45:23) Google brings ads to AI Overviews as it expands AI’s role in search
(00:51:05) Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma
(00:51:49) OpenAI’s newest creation is raising shock, alarm, and horror among staffers: a new logo
(00:53:45) Waymo to add Hyundai EVs to robotaxi fleet under new multiyear deal
(00:57:28) Cerebras, an A.I. Chipmaker Trying to Take On Nvidia, Files for an I.P.O.
(00:59:18) Y Combinator is being criticized after it backed an AI startup that admits it basically cloned another AI startup
Research & Advancements(01:03:30) Were RNNs All We Needed?
(01:06:52) MIO: A Foundation Model on Multimodal Tokens
(01:09:20) Apple releases Depth Pro, an AI model that rewrites the rules of 3D vision
Policy & Safety(01:13:08) California Governor Vetoes Sweeping A.I. Legislation
(01:18:02) Judge blocks California’s new AI law in case over Kamala Harris deepfake Musk reposted
(01:20:41) Google to invest $1 billion in Thailand to build a data center and accelerate AI growth
Synthetic Media & Art(01:21:58) AI reading coach startup Ello now lets kids create their own stories
(01:25:13) Outro
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