Advancements in Generalist Computer Agents and Benchmarking Challenges

Our 156th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Timestamps + links:

• (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
• Tools & Apps
  • (00:02:16) OpenAI introduces Sora, its text-to-video AI model
  • (00:13:24) Gemini 1.5 is Google’s next-gen AI model — and it’s already almost ready
  • (00:24:00) Groq AI model goes viral and rivals ChatGPT, challenges Elon Musk’s Grok
  • (00:29:26) Introducing IP Adapters: Create Consistent Game Assets in Seconds
  • (00:31:36) Report: OpenAI working on web search product
  • (00:33:20) Adobe Acrobat adds generative AI to ‘easily chat with documents’
• Applications & Business
  • (00:34:17) Sam Altman owns OpenAI's venture capital fund
  • (00:38:17) Reddit Signs AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO
  • (00:41:15) Nvidia reveals its Eos supercomputer for AI processing sporting 4,608 H100 GPUs
  • (00:44:41) Google quietly launches internal AI model named 'Goose' to help employees write code faster, leaked documents show
  • (00:46:24) Chinese start-up Moonshot AI raises US$1 billion in funding round led by Alibaba and VC HongShan amid strong interest for OpenAI-type firms
  • (00:50:06)  AI Computing Firm Lambda Raises $320 Million in Fresh Funding
  • (00:51:01) Exclusive: Ex-Salesforce Co-CEO Bret Taylor and longtime Googler Clay Bavor raised $110 million to bring AI ‘agents’ to business
• Projects & Open Source
  • (00:51:41) BioMistral: A Collection of Open-Source Pretrained Large Language Models for Medical Domains
  • (00:54:33) Nomic AI Releases the First Fully Open-Source Long Context Text Embedding Model that Surpasses OpenAI Ada-002 Performance on Various Benchmarks
• Research & Advancements
  • (00:57:33) Meta unveils V-JEPA AI model that improves training by learning from video
  • (01:04:51) Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Without Prompting
  • (01:09:45) OS-Copilot: Towards Generalist Computer Agents with Self-Improvement
  • (01:11:40) World Model on Million-Length Video And Language With RingAttention
  • (01:15:00) Amazon AGI Team Say Their AI Is Showing "Emergent Abilities"
• Policy & Safety
  • (01:17:15) Hackers for China, Russia and Others Used OpenAI Systems, Report Says
  • (01:21:15) House leaders launch bipartisan artificial intelligence task force
  • (01:25:08) Your fingerprints can be recreated from the sounds made when you swipe on a touchscreen — Chinese and US researchers show new side channel can reproduce fingerprints to enable attacks
  • (01:27:05) States are introducing 50 AI-related bills per week
  • (01:28:12) Air Canada found liable for chatbot's bad advice on plane tickets
  • (01:30:26) The FTC warned about ‘quiet’ TOS changes for AI training. Here’s why it might not be enough
• Synthetic Media & Art
  • (01:32:13) Sarah Silverman’s lawsuit against OpenAI partially dismissed
• Fun & Miscellaneous
  
  • (01:36:14) A Visual Guide to Mamba and State Space Models
  • (01:38:00) Scientific Journal Publishes AI-Generated Rat with Gigantic Penis In Worrying Incident
  • (01:40:50) Helen Mirren Rips Up AI-Generated Speech at American Cinematheque Awards
  • (01:41:40) Microsoft's game-changing Super Bowl ad