Massive Funding for Optical Interconnectivity in AI Hardware

Our 161st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Note - one extra story we didn't get to but worth knowing from this week: ‘Totally surreal’: OpenAI shares first short films created with new AI tool Sora

Timestamps + links:

• (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
• Tools & Apps
  • (00:05:20) Google starts testing AI overviews from SGE in main Google search interface
  • (00:10:00) Adobe’s new GenStudio platform is an AI factory for advertisers
  • (00:13:53) Claude-3 Haiku has reached GPT-4 level by our user preference
  • (00:15:26) Microsoft Teams is getting smarter Copilot AI features
  • (00:17:16) Samsung is beating Apple in the race to bring AI to smartphones
  • (00:19:18) Elon Musk says all premium subscribers on X will gain access to AI chatbot Grok this week
• Applications & Business
  • (00:22:36) Stability AI CEO resigns to ‘pursue decentralized AI’
  • (00:26:43) Amazon spends $2.75 billion on AI startup Anthropic in its largest venture investment yet
  • (00:31:16) Intel Gaudi 2 Accelerators Showcase Competitive Performance Per Dollar Against NVIDIA H100 In MLPerf 4.0 GenAI Benchmarks
  • (00:33:43) Chip Startup Celestial AI Lands Massive $175M Series C
  • (00:36:10) Accenture Invests in Sanctuary AI to Bring AI-Powered, Humanoid Robotics to Work Alongside Humans
  • (00:37:44) Humanoid robots are joining the Mercedes-Benz workforce
• Projects & Open Source
  • (00:38:40) Introducing DBRX: A New State-of-the-Art Open LLM
  • (00:44:06) Common Corpus: A Large Public Domain Dataset for Training LLMs
  • (00:46:07) DROID: A Large-Scale In-the-Wild Robot Manipulation Dataset
  • (00:48:15) InternLM2 Technical Report
• Research & Advancements
  • (00:51:49) TacticAI: an AI assistant for football tactics
  • (00:55:44) On the Conversational Persuasiveness of Large Language Models: A Randomized Controlled Trial
  • (00:59:26) AutoDev: Automated AI-Driven Development
  • (01:02:48) Reverse Training to Nurse the Reversal Curse
  • (01:07:43) Cobra: Extending Mamba to Multi-Modal Large Language Model for Efficient Inference
  • (01:09:48) Gamba: Marry Gaussian Splatting with Mamba for single view 3D reconstruction
• Policy & Safety
  • (01:11:12) General Assembly adopts landmark resolution on artificial intelligence
  • (01:16:24) Israel Deploys Expansive Facial Recognition Program in Gaza
  • (01:19:49) LINEARITY OF RELATION DECODING IN TRANSFORMER LANGUAGE MODELS
  • (01:24:52) US Weighs Sanctioning Huawei’s Secretive Chinese Chip Network
  • (01:27:51) New York City welcomes robotaxis — but only with safety drivers
  • (01:28:40) The White House Puts New Guardrails on Government Use of AI
• Synthetic Media & Art
  • (01:31:17) BBC Will Stop Using AI For ‘Doctor Who’ Promotion After Receiving Complaints