Our 194th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news!
*and sometimes last last week's
Recorded on 12/19/2024
Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.
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In this episode:
- Google dominates AI news with multiple announcements, including a reasoning model and Project Mariner, an AI browsing agent.
- Anthropic explores alignment faking in LLMs, revealing models may show deceptive compliance under certain conditions.
- Apple observes a trend towards smaller but more efficient language models, bucking previous trends of scaling larger parameter counts.
- Legal drama unfolds as Meta backs Elon Musk's opposition to OpenAI's profit status change, raising concerns about competitive fairness.
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Timestamps + Links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
(00:02:14) Response to listener comments
(00:08:52) News Preview
(00:10:01) Sponsor Break
Tools & Apps
(00:10:55) Google releases its own ‘reasoning’ AI model
(00:16:52) Google Gemini can now do more in-depth research
(00:21:58) Google DeepMind unveils a new video model to rival Sora
(00:27:50) Pika Labs releases AI video generator 2.0 with new features
(00:29:51) Google unveils Project Mariner: AI agents to use the web for you
(00:34:33) X gains a faster Grok model and a new ‘Grok button’
Applications & Business
(00:43:02) Meta asks the government to block OpenAI’s switch to a for-profit
(00:49:36) OpenAI says Elon Musk wanted it to be for-profit in 2017
(00:56:04) EQTY Lab, Intel, and NVIDIA Unveil 'Verifiable Compute,' A Solution to Secure Trusted AI
(00:59:53) Liquid AI just raised $250M to develop a more efficient type of AI model
Projects & Open Source
(01:07:45) Phi-4 Technical Report
(01:13:04) DeepSeek-VL2: Mixture-of-Experts Vision-Language Models for Advanced Multimodal Understanding
(01:15:23) Meta AI Releases Apollo: A New Family of Video-LMMs Large Multimodal Models for Video Understanding
Research & Advancements
(01:16:34) Alignment faking in large language models
(01:28:39) Meta AI Introduces Byte Latent Transformer (BLT): A Tokenizer-Free Model That Scales Efficiently
(01:36:49) Frontier language models have become much smaller
(01:42:28) The Complexity Dynamics of Grokking
Policy & Safety
(01:46:49) Homeland Security gets its very own generative AI chatbot
(01:49:16) Pre-Deployment Evaluation of OpenAI’s o1 Model
(01:51:35) Pricing for key chipmaking material hits 13-year high following (01:53:46) Chinese export restrictions — China's restrictions on Gallium exports hit hard
Synthetic Media & Art
(01:55:27) Outro
