Our 192nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news!
*and sometimes last last week's
Note: this one was recorded on 12/04 , so the news is a bit outdated...
Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.
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In this episode:
- OpenAI launches a $200 ChatGPT Pro subscription with advanced capabilities, while Amazon unveils cost-effective Nova multimodal models at the re:Invent conference.
- Meta releases LLAMA 3.3 70B model, showing significant gains through post-training techniques, and Alibaba introduces QWQ, a reasoning model rivaling OpenAI's O1.
- Amazon collaborates with Anthropic on a massive AI supercomputer project, and Black Forest Labs eyes a $200 million funding round for growth in AI tools.
- New research from DeepMind's Genie 2 generates interactive 3D worlds from text and images, progressing AI's understanding of world models and interactive environments.
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Timestamps + Links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- (00:02:34) Sponsor Break
- Tools & Apps
- Applications & Business
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
- Policy & Safety
- (01:55:05) Outro
