LWiAI Podcast #178 – More Not-Acquihires, More OpenAI drama, More LLM Scaling Talk

Our 178th episode with a summary and discussion of last week’s big AI news!

With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)

In this episode:
– Notable personnel movements and product updates, such as Character.ai leaders joining Google and new AI features in Reddit and Audible.
– OpenAI’s dramatic changes with co-founder exits, extended leaves, and new lawsuits from Elon Musk.
– Rapid advancements in humanoid robotics exemplified by new models from companies like Figure in partnership with OpenAI, achieving amateur-level human performance in tasks like table tennis.
– Research advancements such as Google’s compute-efficient inference models and self-compressing neural networks, showcasing significant reductions in compute requirements while maintaining performance.

If you would like to get a sneak peek and help test Andrey’s generative AI application, go to Astrocade.com to join the waitlist and the discord.

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Timestamps + Links:

(00:00:00) Intro / Banter

(00:03:14) Response to listener comments / corrections

Applications & Business

(00:06:56) Google’s hiring of Character.AI’s founders is the latest sign that part of the AI startup world is starting to implode