#194 - Gemini Reasoning, Veo 2, Meta vs OpenAI, Fake Alignment
Last Week in AI
Exploring Quantum Computing and AI Developments
This chapter explores Google's recent breakthroughs in quantum computing since their 2019 quantum advantage demonstration. It also previews updates on AI tools and applications, particularly highlighting contributions from OpenAI and Google.
Our 194th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news!
*and sometimes last last week's
Recorded on 12/19/2024
Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.
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In this episode:
- Google dominates AI news with multiple announcements, including a reasoning model and Project Mariner, an AI browsing agent.
- Anthropic explores alignment faking in LLMs, revealing models may show deceptive compliance under certain conditions.
- Apple observes a trend towards smaller but more efficient language models, bucking previous trends of scaling larger parameter counts.
- Legal drama unfolds as Meta backs Elon Musk's opposition to OpenAI's profit status change, raising concerns about competitive fairness.
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Timestamps + Links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- (00:02:14) Response to listener comments
- (00:08:52) News Preview
- (00:10:01) Sponsor Break
- Tools & Apps
- (00:10:55) Google releases its own ‘reasoning’ AI model
- (00:16:52) Google Gemini can now do more in-depth research
- (00:21:58) Google DeepMind unveils a new video model to rival Sora
- (00:27:50) Pika Labs releases AI video generator 2.0 with new features
- (00:29:51) Google unveils Project Mariner: AI agents to use the web for you
- (00:34:33) X gains a faster Grok model and a new ‘Grok button’
- Applications & Business
- (00:36:11) AI GPU clusters with one million GPUs are planned for 2027 — Broadcom says three AI supercomputers are in the works
- (00:43:02) Meta asks the government to block OpenAI’s switch to a for-profit
- (00:49:36) OpenAI says Elon Musk wanted it to be for-profit in 2017
- (00:56:04) EQTY Lab, Intel, and NVIDIA Unveil 'Verifiable Compute,' A Solution to Secure Trusted AI
- (00:59:53) Liquid AI just raised $250M to develop a more efficient type of AI model
- (01:03:19) Hundreds of OpenAI’s current and ex-employees are about to get a huge payday by cashing out up to $10 million each in a private stock sale
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
- Policy & Safety
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:55:27) Outro
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