Our 190th episode with a summary and discussion of last week’s big AI news!
Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.
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In this episode:
* OpenAI’s pitch for a $100 billion data center and AI strategy plan outlines infrastructure and regulatory needs, emphasizing AI’s foundational role akin to electricity.
* Google’s Gemini model challenges OpenAI’s dominance, showing strong performance in chatbot arenas alongside generative AI advancements.
* DeepMind’s AlphaFold3 gets open-sourced for academic use, while new chips from NVIDIA and Google show significant performance boosts.
* Anthropic and TSMC updates highlight strategic funding, regulation influences, and the complex dynamics of AI hardware and international policy.
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Timestamps + Links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
(00:02:44) News Preview
(00:03:34) Sponsor Break
Tools & Apps
(00:04:36) OpenAI, Google and Anthropic Are Struggling to Build More Advanced AI
(00:16:22) OpenAI Nears Launch of AI Agent Tool to Automate Tasks for Users
(00:19:14) Google drops new Gemini model and it goes straight to the top of the LLM leaderboard
(00:19:14) Chinese AI startup takes aim at OpenAI’s Sora with image-to-video tool launch
(00:20:04) Introducing the Forge Reasoning API Beta and Nous Chat: An Evolution in LLM Inference
Applications & Business
(00:23:47) OpenAI Discusses AI Data Center That Could Cost $100 Billion
(00:29:34) Newest Google and Nvidia Chips Speed AI Training
(00:34:45) Ex-OpenAI CTO Murati’s New Team Takes Shape
(00:34:45) Amazon Discussing New Multibillion-Dollar Investment in Anthropic
Projects & Open Source
(00:41:29) Near plans to build world’s largest 1.4T parameter open-source AI model
Research & Advancements
(00:45:38) The Super Weight in Large Language Models
(00:55:42) Compositional Abilities Emerge Multiplicatively: Exploring Diffusion Models on a Synthetic Task
(01:03:47) Mixture-of-Transformers: A Sparse and Scalable Architecture for Multi-Modal Foundation Models
(01:08:14) Contextualized Evaluations: Taking the Guesswork Out of Language Model Evaluations
Policy & Safety
(01:11:14) The Code of Practice for general-purpose AI offers a unique opportunity for the EU
(01:15:38) Three Sketches of ASL-4 Safety Case Components
(01:23:05) U.S Department of Commerce finalizes $6.6 billion CHIPS Act funding for TSMC Fab 21 Arizona site , TSMC cannot make 2nm chips abroad now: MOEA
(01:26:21) OpenAI to present plans for U.S. AI strategy and an alliance to compete with China
(01:30:42) OpenAI loses another lead safety researcher, Lilian Weng
(01:33:00) Outro
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