Navigating AI's Competitive Landscape

Our 191st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.
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Timestamps + Links:

• (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
• (00:02:55) Response to listener comments
• (00:09:30) Sponsor Break
• Tools & Apps
  • (00:10:52) OpenAI’s Sora video generator appears to have leaked
  • (00:21:11) Mistral unleashes Pixtral Large and upgrades Le Chat into full-on ChatGPT competitor
  • (00:26:39) Ignite 2024 introduces new AI agents and more for Microsoft 365 Copilot
  • (00:28:50) H, the AI startup that raised $220M, launches its first product: Runner H for ‘agentic’ applications
  • (00:31:20) Anthropic bets on personalization in the AI arms race with new ‘styles’ feature
  • (00:33:42) ElevenLabs now offers ability to build conversational AI agents
  • (00:37:08) Perplexity introduces a shopping feature for Pro users in the U.S.
  • (00:38:49) Google’s Gemini chatbot now has memory
  • (00:43:03) Suno V4 Ai Music Generator Is Out Now And It’s Very Impressive
  • (00:46:28) Introducing FLUX.1 Tools
  • (00:49:51) OpenAI just gave ChatGPT a major 'creativity' upgrade
  • (00:51:26) Runway launches Frames — a new AI image generator that creates custom worlds
• Applications & Business
  • (00:54:56) OpenAI Email Archives (from Musk v. Altman)
  • (01:02:01) Amazon to invest another $4 billion in Anthropic, OpenAI's biggest rival
  • (01:05:41) Amazon Robots Struggling to Keep Up With Human Workers
• Projects & Open Source
  • (01:11:27) DeepSeek’s first reasoning model R1-Lite-Preview turns heads, beating OpenAI o1 performance
  • (01:15:30) OpenScholar: The open-source A.I. that’s outperforming GPT-4o in scientific research
• Research & Advancements
  • (01:18:02) A statistical approach to model evaluations
  • (01:22:08) Scaling Laws for Precision
  • (01:25:10) Cerebras Delivers Record-Breaking Performance with Meta’s Llama 3.1 405B Model
• Policy & Safety
  • (01:28:01) Sam Altman will co-chair San Francisco mayor-elect Daniel Lurie’s transition team
  • (01:32:21) Biden’s final meeting with Xi Jinping reaps agreement on AI and nukes
• Synthetic Media & Art
  • (01:33:07) How Did You Do On The AI Art Turing Test?
• (01:38:27) Outro