#147 - Google’s Gemini, EU AI Act Deal, Mixtral of Experts, Meta’s ‘Seamless’ translator
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Our 147th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Correction: Gemini also supports audio
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Timestamps + links:
- (00:00:00) Intro/Sponsor Read
- Tools & Apps
- (00:03:00) Google Just Launched Gemini, Its Long-Awaited Answer to ChatGPT
- (00:14:15) Google’s best Gemini demo was faked
- (00:19:33) Early impressions of Google’s Gemini aren’t great
- (00:22:30) Google unveils AlphaCode 2, powered by Gemini
- (00:24:50) Pixel 8 Pro — the first smartphone with AI built in — is now running Gemini Nano
- (00:25:55) Meta unveils Audiobox, an AI that clones voices and generates ambient sounds
- (00:29:55) Oops! Elon Musk's Grok AI Caught Plagiarizing OpenAI's ChatGPT
- (00:33:21) Elon Musk Fans Horrified When His Grok AI Immediately "Goes Woke"
- (00:34:51) Gmail’s AI-powered spam detection is its biggest security upgrade in years
- (00:35:55) Augmenting Local AI with Browser Data: Introducing MemoryCache
- Applications & Business
- (00:37:23) Meta and Microsoft say they will buy AMD’s new AI chip as an alternative to Nvidia’s
- (00:42:02) China poised to break 5nm barrier — Huawei lists 5nm processor presumably built with SMIC tech, defying U.S. sanctions
- (00:46:44) OpenAI’s Altman Ouster Was Result of Drawn-Out Tensions
- (00:50:20) The OpenAI Board Member Who Clashed With Sam Altman Shares Her Side
- (00:51:46) Google announces the Cloud TPU v5p, its most powerful AI accelerator yet
- (00:54:08) Tesla’s Dojo Supercomputer Head Exits in Blow to Efforts
- (00:56:45) AssemblyAI lands $50M to build and serve AI speech models
- (00:57:41) Sydney-based generative AI art platform Leonardo.Ai raises $31M
- Projects & Open Source
- (00:59:20) Mixtral of experts
- (01:05:50) Meta AI unveils ‘Seamless’ translator for real-time communication across languages
- (01:07:07) Paving the way to efficient architectures: StripedHyena-7B, open source models offering a glimpse into a world beyond Transformers
- (01:10:15) Introducing Purple Llama for Safe and Responsible AI Development
- Research & Advancements
- (01:13:21) WALT is a new AI video tool that creates photorealistic clips from a single image — you have to see it to believe it
- (01:14:20) Long context prompting for Claude 2.1
- (01:17:40) Real-World Humanoid Locomotion with Reinforcement Learning
- (01:19:04) Defending ChatGPT against jailbreak attack via self-reminders
- (01:21:20) Beyond Human Data: Scaling Self-Training for Problem-Solving with Language Models
- (01:23:40) Who is leading in AI? An analysis of industry AI research
- Policy & Safety
- (01:26:41) E.U. Agrees on Landmark Artificial Intelligence Rules
- (01:33:58) More Trouble Brews For Microsoft As FTC Allegedly Starts Inquiring Into OpenAI Investment
- (01:39:12) Asking ChatGPT to Repeat Words ‘Forever’ Is Now a Terms of Service Violation
- (01:41:22) US in talks with Nvidia about AI chip sales to China
- (01:44:12) MIT group releases white papers on governance of AI
- (01:47:25) G7 agrees on first comprehensive guidelines for generative AI
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:55:57) Outro
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