Tech Giants and Evolving AI Landscape

Our 174rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)

In this episode of Last Week in AI, we delve into the latest advancements and challenges in the AI industry, highlighting new features from Figma and Quora, regulatory pressures on OpenAI, and significant investments in AI infrastructure. Key topics include AMD's acquisition of Silo AI, Elon Musk's GPU cluster plans for XAI, unique AI model training methods, and the nuances of AI copying and memory constraints. We discuss developments in AI's visual perception, real-time knowledge updates, and the need for transparency and regulation in AI content labeling and licensing.

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Timestamps + links:

• (00:00:00) Intro AI Song
• (00:00:41) Pre News Banter
• Tools & Apps
  • (00:07:09) Odyssey Building 'Hollywood-Grade' AI Text-to-Video Model to Compete With Sora, Gen-3 Alpha
  • (00:10:28) Anthropic’s Claude adds a prompt playground to quickly improve your AI apps
  • (00:15:06) Figma pauses its new AI feature after Apple controversy
  • (00:18:30) Quora’s Poe now lets users create and share web apps
  • (00:20:54) Suno launches iPhone app — now you can make AI music on the go
• Applications & Business
  • (00:21:42) Groq unveils lightning-fast LLM engine; developer base rockets past 280K in 4 months
  • (00:27:03) Microsoft and Apple ditch OpenAI board seats amid regulatory scrutiny
  • (00:29:39) OpenAI and Arianna Huffington are working together on an ‘AI health coach’
  • (00:33:38) AI coding startup Magic seeks $1.5-billion valuation in new funding round, sources say
  • (00:37:01) Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz Clash Over AI Chip Supplies Amid Gen AI Boom
  • (00:43:30) Elon Musk Reveals Plans To Make World’s “Most Powerful” 100,000 NVIDIA GPU AI Cluster
  • (00:46:25) AMD plans to acquire Silo AI in $665 million deal
  • (00:48:00) AI robotics startup raises US$300 million, including from Jeff Bezos
  • (00:52:11) Intel begins groundwork on Magdeburg chip fab despite 13 remaining regulatory and environmental objections
• Research & Advancements
  • (00:55:21) Learning to (Learn at Test Time): RNNs with Expressive Hidden States
  • (01:03:12) Data curation via joint example selection further accelerates multimodal learning
  • (01:09:11) CopyBench: Measuring Literal and Non-Literal Reproduction of Copyright-Protected Text in Language Model Generation
  • (01:13:25) Just read twice: closing the recall gap for recurrent language models
  • (01:15:25) CodeUpdateArena: Benchmarking Knowledge Editing on API Updates
  • (01:18:31) Composable Interventions for Language Models
  • (01:24:09) Mind-reading AI recreates what you're looking at with amazing accuracy
• Policy & Safety
  • (01:26:49) Covert Malicious Finetuning
  • (01:31:23) OpenAI’s week of security issues
  • (01:36:39) Here’s how OpenAI will determine how powerful its AI systems are
  • (01:39:56) Me, Myself and AI: The Situational Awareness Dataset for LLMs
  • (01:44:34) Exclusive: OpenAI partners with Los Alamos to study AI in the lab
  • (01:47:36) Judge dismisses coders’ DMCA claims against Microsoft, OpenAI and GitHub
  • (01:49:55) A former OpenAI safety employee said he quit because the company's leaders were 'building the Titanic' and wanted 'newer, shinier' things to sell
• Synthetic Media & Art
  • (01:52:46) Vimeo joins YouTube and TikTok in launching new AI content labels
  • (01:54:50) Tech Startup Aims to Help Media License Content for AI Training
  • (01:57:23) Etsy adds AI-generated item guidelines in new seller policy 
  • (01:59:44) Bumble users can now report profiles that use AI-generated photos
• (02:02:05) Outro + AI Song