Our 205th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Recorded on 03/28/2025

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In this episode:

OpenAI's new image generation capabilities represent significant advancements in AI tools, showcasing impressive benchmarks and multimodal functionalities.
OpenAI is finalizing a historic $40 billion funding round led by SoftBank, and Sam Altman shifts focus to technical direction while COO Brad Lightcap takes on more operational responsibilities.,
Anthropic unveils groundbreaking interpretability research, introducing cross-layer tracers and showcasing deep insights into model reasoning through applications on Claude 3.5.
New challenging benchmarks such as ARC AGI 2 and complex Sudoku variations aim to push the boundaries of reasoning and problem-solving capabilities in AI models.

Timestamps + Links:

(00:40:27) A new, challenging AGI test stumps most AI models
(00:45:16) Challenging the Boundaries of Reasoning: An Olympiad-Level Math Benchmark for Large Language Models
(00:48:13) Wan: Open and Advanced Large-Scale Video Generative Models
(00:50:38) DeepSeek V3-0324 tops non-reasoning AI models in open-source first
(00:54:46) OpenAI adopts rival Anthropic’s standard for connecting AI models to data

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