Navigating AI in Academic Publishing

Our 160th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Timestamps + links:

• Tools & Apps
  • (00:01:36) Adobe Substance 3D’s AI features can turn text into backgrounds and textures
  • (00:05:04) OpenAI’s chatbot store is filling up with spam
  • (00:11:02) Apple’s AI ambitions could include Google or OpenAI
• Applications & Business
  • (00:13:31) Nvidia reveals Blackwell B200 GPU, the ‘world’s most powerful chip’ for AI
  • (00:19:34) Microsoft to Pay Inflection AI $650 Million After Scooping Up Most of Staff
  • (00:24:33) Figure 01: Conversations & Actions in Humanoid Robotics!
  • (00:28:07) OpenAI's GPT-4.5 Turbo leaked on search engines and could launch in June
  • (00:30:32) Abu Dhabi in talks to invest in OpenAI chip venture
  • (00:33:43) Nvidia Announces GR00T, a Foundation Model For Humanoids
• Projects & Open Source
  • (00:35:38) Open Release of Grok-1
  • (00:41:25) Stability AI brings a new dimension to video with Stable Video 3D
  • (00:44:23) Colossal-AI Team Introduces Open-Sora: An Open-Source Library for Video Generation
  • (00:45:43) Evolutionary Optimization of Model Merging Recipes
• Research & Advancements
  • (00:46:52) DiPaCo: Distributed Path Composition
  • (00:53:58) MM1: Methods, Analysis & Insights from Multimodal LLM Pre-training
  • (00:59:37) PERL: Parameter Efficient Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
  • (01:01:55) VideoAgent: Long-form Video Understanding with Large Language Model as Agent
  • (01:05:38) MusicHiFi: Fast High-Fidelity Stereo Vocoding
• Policy & Safety
  • (01:06:44) The WMDP Benchmark: Measuring and Reducing Malicious Use With Unlearning
  • (01:12:43) Exclusive: U.S. Must Move ‘Decisively’ to Avert ‘Extinction-Level’ Threat From AI, Government-Commissioned Report Says
  • (01:18:18) Evaluating Frontier Models for Dangerous Capabilities
  • (01:22:55) Chinese and western scientists identify ‘red lines’ on AI risks
  • (01:26:11) Google fined $272M by French government over AI use of news content
  • (01:27:58) Elvis Act Signed Into Tennessee Law to Protect Musicians From AI Deepfakes
• Synthetic Media & Art
  • (01:30:17) AI-Generated Science
  • (01:35:35) YouTube adds new AI-generated content labeling tool
• Fun!
  • (01:37:29) 10 of My Most Popular Text-To-Image Series (+Prompts)