Our 192nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week’s* big AI news!
*and sometimes last last week’s
Note: this one was recorded on 12/04 , so the news is a bit outdated…
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In this episode:
OpenAI launches a $200 ChatGPT Pro subscription with advanced capabilities, while Amazon unveils cost-effective Nova multimodal models at the re:Invent conference.
Meta releases LLAMA 3.3 70B model, showing significant gains through post-training techniques, and Alibaba introduces QWQ, a reasoning model rivaling OpenAI’s O1.
Amazon collaborates with Anthropic on a massive AI supercomputer project, and Black Forest Labs eyes a $200 million funding round for growth in AI tools.
New research from DeepMind’s Genie 2 generates interactive 3D worlds from text and images, progressing AI’s understanding of world models and interactive environments.
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Timestamps + Links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
(00:02:34) Sponsor Break
Tools & Apps
(00:04:19) OpenAI confirms new $200 monthly subscription, which includes its o1 reasoning model
(00:10:40) Amazon announces Nova, a new family of multimodal AI models
(00:17:13) ElevenLabs launches GenFM to turn user content into AI-powered podcasts
(00:20:21) Google’s new generative AI video model is now available
Applications & Business
(00:23:56) Elon Musk files for injunction to halt OpenAI’s transition to a for-profit
(00:29:40) Amazon Is Building a Mega AI Supercomputer With Anthropic
(00:34:15) It Sounds an Awful Lot Like OpenAI Is Adding Ads to ChatGPT
(00:38:23) A16z in Talks to Lead $200 Million Round in Black Forest Labs, Startup Behind AI Images on Grok
(00:41:10) Bezos Backs AI Chipmaker Vying With Nvidia at $2.6 Billion Value
Projects & Open Source
Research & Advancements
Policy & Safety
(01:37:33) China retaliates against latest US chip restrictions
(01:40:52) OpenAI Is Working With Anduril to Supply the US Military With AI
(01:43:24) On Targeted Manipulation and Deception when Optimizing LLMs for User Feedback
(01:47:52) AI Safety Researcher Quits OpenAI, Saying Its Trajectory Alarms Her
(01:51:52) Meta Claims AI Content Was Less than 1% of Election Misinformation
(01:55:05) Outro
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