Our 183rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.

Note: once again, apologies from Andrey on this one coming out late. Starting with the next one we should be back to a regular(ish) release schedule.

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In this episode:

- OpenAI's O1 and O1 mini models boast advanced reasoning and longer responses.

- Adobe adds video generation to Firefly, Anthropic launches AI safety-focused Claude enterprise.

- LLAMA3 8B excels with synthetic tokens, AI-generated ideas deemed more novel.

- New AI forecasting bot competes with veteran human forecasters.

Timestamps + Links:

(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
(00:02:38) Response to listener comments / corrections
Tools & Apps
- (00:04:00) OpenAI releases o1, its first model with ‘reasoning’ abilities
- (00:22:06) Adobe says video generation is coming to Firefly this year
- (00:25:27) Anthropic launches Claude Enterprise with more security, admin controls
- (00:27:55) Tell Replit's AI Agent Your App Idea, and It'll Code and Deploy It for You
Applications & Business
Projects & Open Source
Research & Advancements
- (01:01:35) Google DeepMind Launches AlphaProteo , an AI Model for Generating Proteins
- (01:08:27) Synthetic continued pretraining
- (01:16:55) A Large-Scale Human Study with 100+ NLP Researchers
- (01:23:55) Superhuman Automated Forecasting
Policy & Safety
- (01:28:05) OpenAI o1 System Card
- (01:36:58) US roll outs new export controls aimed at restricting China’s chip industry
- (01:39:50) Employee Call for Governor Newsom to Sign SB 1047
- (01:42:34) Taylor Swift says AI version of herself falsely endorsing Trump 'conjured up my fears'
Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:44:42) YouTube is developing AI detection tools for music and faces, plus creator controls for AI training
(01:45:08) Outro

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