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Jun 24, 2024 • 2h 4min

#171 - Apple Intelligence, Dream Machine, SSI Inc

Apple unveils new AI features for iPhone and Mac, Luma AI's Dream Machine faces traffic surge, Runway releases hyper-realistic video model, OpenAI might transition to for-profit, Safe Superintelligence Inc launched, financial growth for OpenAI, Huawei claims chip surpasses Nvidia, Astrocade secures $12M seed funding
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Jun 9, 2024 • 1h 49min

#170 - new Sora rival, OpenAI robotics, understanding GPT4, AGI by 2027?

Discussion on Sora's AI video generator rival, OpenAI's robotics research restart, UAE's AI deals with the US, Zoox testing self-driving cars, and AI collaborations between tech giants
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Jun 3, 2024 • 2h 6min

#169 - Google's Search Errors, OpenAI news & DRAMA, new leaderboards

The podcast covers Google's AI search errors causing controversy, AI chatbots on Telegram and Opera browser, and Amazon's plan to revamp Alexa. OpenAI's deals with PwC and media companies, along with China's advancements in semiconductor technology. Nvidia's financial success and Elon Musk's xAI funding round are also discussed. The episode dives into AI model comparisons, OpenAI's leadership drama, and China's massive chip fund initiative.
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May 28, 2024 • 1h 45min

#168 - OpenAI vs Scar Jo + safety researchers, MS AI updates, cool Anthropic research

Host Gavin Purcell discusses OpenAI pausing Sky voice in ChatGPT, Microsoft's Copilot upgrade, Adobe Lightroom magic eraser, and free AI assistant for educators. Controversies at OpenAI, including safety researcher departures and a $250 million deal with WSJ owner. Microsoft's new image analyzing language model and Anthropic's interpretability research are also covered.
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May 19, 2024 • 1h 43min

#167 - GPT-4o, Project Astra, Veo, OpenAI Departures, Interview with Andrey

In this episode, the hosts discuss OpenAI's GPT-4o, Google's Project Astra, Veo, and Imagen 3. They also talk about OpenAI Chief Scientist leaving, Anthropic AI's new CPO, and robots by GM Cruise and Zoox. The episode covers advancements in AI, self-driving cars, AI music generation, and copyright concerns. It also touches on human-robot mental health interactions, AI safety measures, and the intersection of AI with art. The episode dives into conceptual storytelling in bleak future scenarios and career choices in AI content creation.
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May 12, 2024 • 1h 41min

#166 - new AI song generator, Microsoft's GPT4 efforts, AlphaFold3, xLSTM, OpenAI Model Spec

The podcast discusses new AI song generator by ElevenLabs, Microsoft's GPT-4 efforts, AlphaFold3, xLSTM, OpenAI Model Spec. They cover partnerships like OpenAI & Stack Overflow for technical knowledge, challenges from Chinese AI unicorns, and Wayve's $1 billion for Autonomous Driving. Also, talk about Prometheus 2 evaluating language models, DeepSeek-V2 for language model efficiency, and OpenVoice V2 enhancing multilingual voice cloning.
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May 5, 2024 • 1h 33min

#165 - Sora challenger, Astribot's S1, Med-Gemini, Refusal in LLMs

AI news highlights include China's Sora challenger, ChatGPT's memory feature, and Amazon Q assistant. Exciting developments in robot technology with a super-fast humanoid robot video. Tesla faces scrutiny over Autopilot as OpenAI partners with Financial Times. Huawei's move to support HBM memory manufacturing in China. Research covers Gemini Models in Medicine and challenges in AI safety regulations.
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Apr 30, 2024 • 1h 32min

#164 - Meta AI, Phi-3, OpenELM, Bollywood Deepfakes

Meta introduces smart assistants, Microsoft's Phi-3 model, Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses with AI, OpenAI's AI image generator closure, Baidu's Ernie chatbot success, Adobe Photoshop's new image generator. Intel's collaboration with Pentagon for advanced chips, Meta's increased AI spending, OpenAI CEO's investment in solar power, Google's consolidation of AI-focused teams, Microsoft and OpenAI's $100 billion project. Apple's OpenELM open source AI models, Snowflake's Arctic model launch. Deep dive into language model safety, AI chip advancements, Bollywood deepfake videos in India, LLM agents exploiting cyber vulnerabilities, China acquiring banned video chips, controversy over AI-generated voices in Drake's track.
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Apr 24, 2024 • 1h 34min

#163 - Llama 3, Grok-1.5 Vision, new Atlas robot, RHO-1, Medium ban

Llama 3 and Grok-1.5 Vision claim the spotlight with their AI advancements. Boston Dynamics unveils a new Atlas robot for commercial use. US blacklists key partners, while Elon Musk hints at massive GPU requirements for Grok 3 model. Dr. Andrew Ng joins Amazon's board, and collaborative robotics secures a $100M investment. Exciting advancements in AI and robotics technology unfold in this episode.
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Apr 15, 2024 • 1h 45min

#162 - Udio Song AI, TPU v5, Mixtral 8x22, Mixture-of-Depths, Musicians sign open letter

This podcast covers AI music tools like Udio, TPU V5 accelerator, Mixtral 8x22B model, Google Gemma updates. Also, discusses Copilot's GPT-4 Turbo, OpenAI transcribing YouTube videos, Waymo's robotaxi service launch, and Mistral AI's surprise model release.

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