Our 183rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.
Note: once again, apologies from Andrey on this one coming out late. Starting with the next one we should be back to a regular(ish) release schedule.
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In this episode:
- OpenAI's O1 and O1 mini models boast advanced reasoning and longer responses.
- Adobe adds video generation to Firefly, Anthropic launches AI safety-focused Claude enterprise.
- LLAMA3 8B excels with synthetic tokens, AI-generated ideas deemed more novel.
- New AI forecasting bot competes with veteran human forecasters.
Timestamps + Links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
(00:02:38) Response to listener comments / corrections
Tools & Apps
(00:04:00) OpenAI releases o1, its first model with ‘reasoning’ abilities
(00:22:06) Adobe says video generation is coming to Firefly this year
(00:25:27) Anthropic launches Claude Enterprise with more security, admin controls
(00:27:55) Tell Replit's AI Agent Your App Idea, and It'll Code and Deploy It for You
Applications & Business
(00:31:42) OpenAI Fundraising Set to Vault Startup’s Valuation to $150 Billion
(00:37:03) OpenAI Hits 1 Million Paid Users For Business Versions of ChatGPT
(00:39:59) TSMC Arizona achieves production yields similar to those at its fabs in Taiwan, says report
(00:45:14) Japan’s Sakana AI partners Nvidia for research, raises $100M
Projects & Open Source
(00:47:31) The fable of Reflection 70B
(00:53:08) DataGemma: Using real-world data to address AI hallucinations
(00:56:31) DeepSeek-V2.5 wins praise as the new, true open source AI model leader
Research & Advancements
(01:01:35) Google DeepMind Launches AlphaProteo , an AI Model for Generating Proteins
(01:08:27) Synthetic continued pretraining
(01:16:55) A Large-Scale Human Study with 100+ NLP Researchers
(01:23:55) Superhuman Automated Forecasting
Policy & Safety
(01:28:05) OpenAI o1 System Card
(01:36:58) US roll outs new export controls aimed at restricting China’s chip industry
(01:39:50) Employee Call for Governor Newsom to Sign SB 1047
(01:42:34) Taylor Swift says AI version of herself falsely endorsing Trump 'conjured up my fears'
Synthetic Media & Art
(01:44:42) YouTube is developing AI detection tools for music and faces, plus creator controls for AI training
(01:45:08) Outro
