Our 177th episode with a summary and discussion of last week’s big AI news!
NOTE: apologies for this episode again coming out about a week late, next one will be coming out soon…
With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)
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In this episode, hosts Andrey Kurenkov and John Krohn dive into significant updates and discussions in the AI world, including Instagram’s new AI features, Waymo’s driverless cars rollout in San Francisco, and NVIDIA’s chip delays. They also review Meta’s AI Studio, character.ai CEO Noam Shazir’s return to Google, and Google’s Gemini updates. Additional topics cover NVIDIA’s hardware issues, advancements in humanoid robots, and new open-source AI tools like Open Devon. Policy discussions touch on the EU AI Act, the U.S. stance on open-source AI, and investigations into Google and Anthropic. The impact of misinformation via deepfakes, particularly one involving Elon Musk, is also highlighted, all emphasizing significant industry effects and regulatory implications.
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(00:00:00) AI Song / Intro Banter
(00:05:32) Response to listener comments / corrections
Tools & Apps
(00:10:16) Apple Intelligence to Miss Initial Launch of Upcoming iOS 18 Overhaul
(00:16:35) Instagram starts letting people create AI versions of themselves
Lighting round
(00:22:49) Runway just dropped image-to-video in Gen3
(00:25:41) Midjourney drops surprise v6.1 update — now humans look more real than ever
(00:28:07) AI-Powered Necklace Will Be Your Friend for $99
(00:30:06) Microsoft is adding AI-powered summaries to Bing search results
Applications & Business
(00:31:44) Character.AI CEO Noam Shazeer returns to Google
(00:39:41) Perplexity is cutting checks to publishers following plagiarism accusations
Lighting round
(00:43:30) Nvidia reportedly delays its next AI chip due to a design flaw
(00:41:08) Neura shows off humanoid robot 4NE-1
(00:46:0) Yes, there are more driverless Waymos in S.F. Here’s how busy they are
(00:57:27) Canva acquires Leonardo.ai to boost its generative AI efforts
Projects & Open Source
(01:01:59) Google releases new ‘open’ AI models with a focus on safety
Lighting round
(01:05:09) Stability AI releases super-fast model for 3D asset image generation
(01:09:29) OpenDevin: An Open Platform for AI Software Developers as Generalist Agents
Research & Advancements
(01:19:20) MoMa: Efficient Early-Fusion Pre-training with Mixture of Modality-Aware Experts
Lighting round
(01:25:00) AssistantBench: Can Web Agents Solve Realistic and Time-Consuming Tasks?
(01:26:19) Trust or Escalate: LLM Judges with Provable Guarantees for Human Agreement
(01:31:15) Stretching Each Dollar: Diffusion Training from Scratch on a Micro-Budget
Policy & Safety
(01:33:03) World’s First-Ever AI Law Now Enforced in Europe, Targeting US Tech Giants
(01:39:12) White House says no need to restrict ‘open-source’ artificial intelligence — at least for now
Lighting round
(01:41:12) With Smugglers and Front Companies, China Is Skirting American A.I. Bans
(01:44:03) UK antitrust body probes Google’s ties with AI rival Anthropic
(01:45:20) Elon Musk posts deepfake of Kamala Harris that violates X policy
(01:50:10) AI Outro
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