Our 197th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Recorded on 01/17/2024
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In this episode:
- Google and Mistral sign deals with AP and AFP, respectively, to deliver up-to-date news through their AI platforms.
- ChatGPT introduces a tasks feature for reminders and to-dos, positioning itself more as a personal assistant.
- Synthesia raises $180 million to enhance its AI video platform for generating videos of human avatars.
- New U.S. guidelines restrict exporting AI chips to various countries, impacting Nvidia and other tech firms.
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Timestamps + Links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- (00:04:29) News Preview
- (00:05:09) Response to listener comments
- (00:05:58) Sponsor Break
- Tools & Apps
- (00:07:01) Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free — but raising the price of Workspace
- (00:07:52) Microsoft relaunches Copilot for business with free AI chat and pay-as-you-go agents
- (00:12:36) Google signs deal with AP to deliver up-to-date news through its Gemini AI chatbot
- (00:18:08) Mistral signs deal with AFP to offer up-to-date answers in Le Chat
- (00:18:45) ChatGPT can now handle reminders and to-dos
- Applications & Business
- (00:22:53) Palmer Luckey’s AI Defense Company Anduril Is Building a $1 Billion Plant in Ohio
- (00:28:36) OpenAI is bankrolling Axios’ expansion into four new markets
- (00:29:39) AI researcher François Chollet founds a new AI lab focused on AGI
- (00:32:18) Nvidia-backed AI video platform Synthesia doubles valuation to $2.1 billion
- (00:34:46) Anysphere Raises $105M in Series B
- (00:40:14) Harvey Valuation of 3 Billion
- Projects & Open Source
- (00:46:12) MiniMax-01: Scaling Foundation Models with Lightning Attention
- (00:51:16) MinMo: A Multimodal Large Language Model with Approximately 8B Parameters for Seamless Voice Interaction
- (00:53:01) HALoGEN: Fantastic LLM Hallucinations and Where to Find Them
- Research & Advancements
- (00:57:03) Titans: Learning to Memorize at Test Time
- (01:04:38) Transformer2: Self-adaptive LLMs
- (01:08:15) Inference-Time Scaling for Diffusion Models beyond Scaling Denoising Steps
- Policy & Safety
- (01:11:23) Biden administration proposes sweeping new restrictions on exporting AI chips
- (01:13:56) Biden orders Energy, Defense departments to lease sites for AI data centers, clean energy generation
- (01:15:00) OpenAI presents its preferred version of AI regulation in a new ‘blueprint’
- (01:16:15) More teens report using ChatGPT for schoolwork, despite the tech’s faults
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:19:53) Outro
