Our 193rd 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Note: this one was recorded on 12/13, so the news is a bit outdated... will get things back on track soon!

Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.
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In this episode:

- OpenAI launches Sora, a text-to-video model with significant capabilities, and Gemini 2.0 from Google showcasing agentic potential in AI tools.
- Character.ai introduces a teen model to address safety concerns following two tragic incidents linked to addiction and harmful influence.
- The U.S. government sets up a task force to support the rapid development of AI data centers, reflecting the critical need for robust infrastructure.
- A paper from Anthropic reveals that frontier AI systems have reached the capability of self-replication, sparking discussions on future implications and safety protocols.

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Timestamps + Links:

(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
(00:02:44) News Preview
(00:03:43) Response to listener comments
(00:09:50) Sponsor Break
Tools & Apps
- (00:11:12) OpenAI has finally released Sora
- (00:21:16) Google Reveals Gemini 2, AI Agents, and a Prototype Personal Assistant
- (00:28:23) ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode adding video and screen sharing input (plus a Santa mode)
- (00:30:43) Microsoft’s Copilot can browse the web with you using AI ‘Vision’
- (00:32:31) Musk’s xAI has launched Grok image generation model
- (00:35:22) Cognition Labs’ AI Software Engineer Devin Launched for Subscribers
- (00:40:43) Apple launches its ChatGPT integration with Siri
- (00:43:23) Reddit’s New AI Search Tool Helps You Find Reddit Answers Without Google
Applications & Business
- (00:46:35) OpenAI Aiming to Eliminate Microsoft AGI Rule to Boost Future Investment
- (00:53:34) GM halts funding of robotaxi development by Cruise
- (00:57:08) Largest AI data centre in the world to be built in northwest Alberta
- (01:02:36) Meta announces 4 million sq ft, 2GW Louisiana data center campus
- (01:05:22) Google’s future data centers will be built next to solar and wind farms
Projects & Open Source
- (01:08:37) Google DeepMind Just Released PaliGemma 2: A New Family of Open-Weight Vision Language Models (3B, 10B and 28B)
Research & Advancements
- (01:13:51) Training Large Language Models to Reason in a Continuous Latent Space
- (01:25:37) An Evolved Universal Transformer Memory
- (01:31:48) APOLLO: SGD-like Memory, AdamW-level Performance
- (01:37:59) Clio: A system for privacy-preserving insights into real-world AI use
Policy & Safety
(02:02:19) Outro

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