Our 206th episode with a summary and discussion of last week’s big AI news!
Recorded on 04/07/2025
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In this episode:
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Meta releases LlAMA-4, a series of advanced large language models, sparking debate on performance and release timing, with models featuring up to 2 trillion parameters for different configurations and applications.
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Amazon’s AGI Lab debuts NOVA Act, an AI agent for web browser control, boasting competitive benchmarking against OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s best agents.
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OpenAI’s image generation capabilities and ongoing financing developments, notably a $40 billion funding round led by SoftBank, highlight significant advancements and strategic shifts in the tech giant’s operations.
Timestamps + Links:
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(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
Tools & Apps
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(00:01:46) Meta releases Llama 4, a new crop of flagship AI models
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(00:13:55) Amazon unveils Nova Act, an AI agent that can control a web browser
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(00:17:06) Alibaba Preparing for Flagship AI Model Release as Soon as April
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(00:17:59) Runway releases an impressive new video-generating AI model
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(00:19:10) Adobe launches Premiere Pro’s generative AI video extender
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(00:20:54) OpenAI prepares reasoning slider and memory update for ChatGPT users
Applications & Business
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(00:21:28) Nvidia H20 Chips: $16 Billion Orders from ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent
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(00:24:45) Elon Musk sells X for $33 billion to his own AI startup company xAI
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(00:30:48) DeepMind is holding back release of AI research to give Google an edge
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(00:36:04) Google-backed Isomorphic Labs raises $600m to advance AI drug discovery
Research & Advancements
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(00:38:03) PaperBench: Evaluating AI’s Ability to Replicate AI Research
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(00:43:50) Crossing the Reward Bridge: Expanding RL with Verifiable Rewards Across Diverse Domains
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(00:48:39) Inference-Time Scaling for Complex Tasks: Where We Stand and What Lies Ahead
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(00:54:34) Overtrained Language Models Are Harder to Fine-Tune
Policy & Safety
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(00:58:28) Taking a responsible path to AGI
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(01:02:32) This A.I. Forecast Predicts Storms Ahead
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(01:06:24) The Secrets and Misdirection Behind Sam Altman’s Firing From OpenAI
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