#192 - ChatGPT Pro, Amazon Nova, GenFM, Llama 3.3, Genie 2
Last Week in AI
Innovations in AI and Technology Advancements
This chapter explores recent advancements in artificial intelligence, including a new GPT subscription and updates from tech giants like Amazon. It also discusses the implications of these developments on international safety policies and highlights efforts in AI entrepreneurship.
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Note: this one was recorded on 12/04 , so the news is a bit outdated...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
- (00:45:25) Meta unveils a new, more efficient Llama model
- (00:50:00) Alibaba releases an ‘open’ challenger to OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model
- (00:55:21) DeMo: Decoupled Momentum Optimization
- (00:57:01) PRIME Intellect Releases INTELLECT-1 (Instruct + Base): The First 10B Parameter Language Model Collaboratively Trained Across the Globe
- (01:03:03) Tencent Launches HunyuanVideo, an Open-Source AI Video Model
- Research & Advancements
- Policy & Safety
- (01:30:56) Commerce Strengthens Export Controls to Restrict China’s Capability to Produce Advanced Semiconductors for Military Applications
- (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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