This Week in Startups

Figure’s AI Robot, AI News, Cognition’s Devin, and the biggest AI bet yet! | E1915

Mar 19, 2024

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Explore the AI news with Open AI's CTO discussing Sora, the impressive Figure AI robot, and Devin, the first AI software engineer. Delve into the future of AI learning and humanoids, plus a high-stakes bet on humanoid robot availability by 2027.

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Quick takeaways

Apple and Google exploring partnership for AI models on iPhones.

Apple's research on multi-modal LLM pre-training for AI advancements.

Developers using AI tools like Devin for complex problem-solving in software development.

Deep dives

Enhanced training model for AI introduced by Apple and Google

Apple and Google are exploring a partnership where Apple could license Google's Gemini AI models to power new iPhone features. Reported discussions involve Apple considering using Open AI models. The move is seen as a business development deal to maintain the revenue stream generated by their search agreement. This collaboration could lead to new AI-powered capabilities on Apple devices, showing potential areas of expansion for the companies.

Introduction

2min

Open-source AI Models: Challenges and Benefits

7min

Advancements in Humanoid AI Technology and Voice Recognition Capability

4min

Advancements in Humanoid Robotics and Reasoning Capabilities

7min

Exploring AI Learning and Application Through Vision and Media Consumption

3min

Humanoid Robots in Human Environments

7min

Advancements in Robotics and AI Technology with a Bet Alert Mention

4min

AI Collaboration and Business Deals

18min

Insights on AI Market Dynamics and Smartphone Monopoly

3min

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Todays show:

Sunny joins Jason to dive into AI news, including the CTO from Open AI talking about their training data for Sora (5:11), the FIgure AI robot (12:26), Devin, the first AI software engineer (38:17), and more!

Timestamps:

(0:00) Sunny joins Jason for a fun AI day!

(2:08) Elon and open source Grok vs “Closed” AI.

(5:11) The CTO from Open AI talking about their training data for Sora.

(9:28) Exploring the fascinating AI robot from Figure.

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(12:26) Comparing the FIgure AI robot and what we have seen from Boston Dynamics and why this is impressive.

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(21:10) Thinking about how humans learn and applying that to AI.

(28:28) The idea that robots may one day be 1:1 with humans.

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(32:01) New bet alert! And it’s a major one. Sunny and JCal bet on how soon we will all have access to AI robots in our homes!