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Our 155th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Correction: Andrey said CLIP came out with DALL-E 2; it came out alongside the first DALL-E.

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Timestamps + links:

(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
Tools & Apps
- (00:03:45) ChatGPT is getting ‘memory’ to remember who you are and what you like
- (00:08:20) Reka Flash: An Efficient and Capable Multimodal Language Model
- (00:14:22) Say What? Chat With RTX Brings Custom Chatbot to NVIDIA RTX AI PCs
Applications & Business
- (00:17:49) Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips and AI
- (00:26:12) Report: China’s SMIC to begin production of 5nm chips for Huawei
- (00:30:32) A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco
- (00:34:18) OpenAI reportedly developing two AI agents to automate entire work processes
- (00:37:23) Cruise names first chief safety officer following crash and controversy
Projects & Open Source
- (00:39:15) Cohere for AI launches open source LLM for 101 languages
- (00:43:10 ) BUD-E: ENHANCING AI VOICE ASSISTANTS’ CONVERSATIONAL QUALITY, NATURALNESS AND EMPATHY
- (00:47:36) EVA-CLIP-18B: Scaling CLIP to 18 Billion Parameters
- (00:51:30) Introducing Stable Cascade
Research & Advancements
- (00:53:14) SELF-DISCOVER: Large Language Models Self-Compose Reasoning Structures
- (01:01:30) BlackMamba: Mixture of Experts for State-Space Models
- (01:05:34) An Interactive Agent Foundation Model
- (01:09:00) Grandmaster-Level Chess Without Search
- (01:13:42) More Agents Is All You Need
- (01:16:04) MusicMagus: Zero-Shot Text-to-Music Editing via Diffusion Models
Policy & Safety
- (01:16:41) Debating with More Persuasive LLMs Leads to More Truthful Answers
- (01:23:49) In Big Tech’s backyard, California lawmaker unveils landmark AI bill
- (01:28:06) AI Deployed Nukes 'to Have Peace in the World' in Tense War Simulation
- (01:31:32) Protesters gather outside OpenAI office, opposing military AI and AGI
- (01:35:43) AI safeguards can easily be broken, UK Safety Institute finds
Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:39:35) Stability, Midjourney, Runway hit back in AI art lawsuit
- (01:42:25) AI Companies Take Hit as Judge Says Artists Have “Public Interest” In Pursuing Lawsuits
(01:44:42) Outro

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