Analyzing Anthropic's Unusual Fundraising Strategy

Our 151st 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
  • (00:02:55) Microsoft’s new Copilot Pro brings AI-powered Office features to the rest of us
  • (00:04:43) Microsoft Copilot is now using the previously-paywalled GPT-4 Turbo, saving you $20 a month
  • (00:07:02) Amazon launches generative AI tool to answer shoppers’ questions
• Applications & Business
  • (00:08:07) DeepMind spin-off aims to halve drug discovery times following Big Pharma deals
  • (00:13:16) China planning 1,600-core chips that use an entire wafer — similar to American company Cerebras 'wafer-scale' designs
  • (00:17:12)  ChatGPT will have video functionality and more accuracy in future versions — Sam Altman says GPT-5 will be a big improvement
  • (00:19:38) Huawei Teardown Shows 5nm Chip Made in Taiwan, Not China
  • (00:22:15) OpenAI’s news publisher deals reportedly top out at $5 million a year
  • (00:25:04) Inside AI Unicorn Anthropic’s Unusual $750 Million Fundraise
  • (00:28:46) Microsoft executive Dee Templeton joins OpenAI board - Bloomberg News
  • (00:31:33) OpenAI-backed 1X raises another $100M for the race to humanoid robots
• Projects & Open Source
  • (00:34:25) Meet LLama.cpp: An Open-Source Machine Learning Library to Run the LLaMA Model Using 4-bit Integer Quantization on a MacBook
  • (00:38:06) LLAMA PRO: Progressive LLaMA with Block Expansion
  • (00:43:48) One of the world’s largest AI training datasets is about to get bigger and ‘substantially better’
• Research & Advancements
  • (00:47:52) Towards Conversational Diagnostic AI
  • (00:51:50)  Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training
  • (00:56:27) LLM Augmented LLMs: Expanding Capabilities through Composition
  • (01:02:23) Self-Play Fine-Tuning Converts Weak Language Models to Strong Language Models
  • (01:05:16) Clinical predictive models created by AI are accurate but study-specific, researchers find
  • (01:09:01) Secure, Governable Chips
• Policy & Safety
  • (01:14:01) US companies and Chinese experts engaged in secret diplomacy on AI safety
  • (01:18:28) China Cyberspace Security Association releases first batch of Chinese basic corpus
  • (01:22:33) OpenAI Bans Use of AI Tools for Campaigning, Voter Suppression
  • (01:24:49) OpenAI Quietly Deletes Ban on Using ChatGPT for “Military and Warfare”
• Synthetic Media & Art
  • (01:27:20) Musicians Set to Begin Contract Negotiations With Studios On AI, Streaming Priorities
  • (01:29:26) Scammy AI-Generated Book Rewrites Are Flooding Amazon
  • (01:33:15) Deepfaked Celebrity Ads Promoting Medicare Scams Run Rampant on YouTube
• (01:35:15) Outro