Our 172nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
With hosts Andrey Kurenkov ( / andrey_kurenkov ) and Jeremie Harris ( / jeremiecharris )
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Timestamps + Links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
Tools & Apps
(00:03:02) Anthropic Debuts Collaboration Tools for Claude AI Assistant
(00:08:32) Google rolls out Gemini side panels for Gmail and other Workspace apps
(00:12:30) OpenAI delays rolling out its 'Voice Mode' to July
(00:15:40) OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Mac is now available to all users
(00:17:27) Waymo ditches the waitlist and opens up its robotaxis to everyone in San Francisco
(00:18:53) Figma announces big redesign with AI
Applications & Business
(00:21:37) Meet Sohu: The World’s First Transformer Specialized Chip ASIC
(00:29:42) Huawei Has Reportedly Invested Billions In An R&D Facility That Will Allow It To Develop Advanced Chipmaking Machinery Similar To ASML & Others
(00:32:17) China's ByteDance working with Broadcom to develop advanced AI chip, sources say
(00:35:35) Chinese AI firms woo OpenAI users as US company plans API restrictions
(00:39:45) OpenAI walks back controversial stock sale policies, will treat current and former employees the same
Projects & Open Source
(00:43:42) Meta Large Language Model Compiler: Foundation Models of Compiler Optimization
(00:47:54) Google’s Gemma 2 series launches with not one, but two lightweight model options-a 9B and 27B
(00:48:50) ESM3: Simulating 500 million years of evolution with a language model
Research & Advancements
(00:56:57) Finding GPT-4’s mistakes with GPT-4
(01:03:30) Chinese-built ChatGLM exceeds GPT-4 Across Several Benchmarks
(01:07:15) Performances are plateauing, let's make the leaderboard steep again
(01:11:18) Structural mechanism of bridge RNA-guided recombination
(01:15:01) Reconciling Kaplan and Chinchilla Scaling Laws
Policy & Safety
(01:17:42) Safety Alignment Should Be Made More Than Just a Few Tokens Deep
(01:23:02) Y Combinator rallies start-ups against California’s AI safety bill
(01:28:20) Pro-Kigali propagandists caught using Artificial Intelligence tools
(01:21:40) Coordinated Disclosure of Dual-Use Capabilities: An Early Warning System for Advanced AI
(01:35:08) Adversaries Can Misuse Combinations of Safe Models
Mitigating Skeleton Key, a new type of generative AI jailbreak technique
Synthetic Media & Art
(01:39:35) Music labels sue AI music generators for copyright infringement
(01:42:43) KZread is trying to make AI music deals with major record labels
(01:45:07) Toys ‘R’ Us Debuts First Video Ad Using Sora, OpenAI’s Text-to-Video Tool
(01:49:12) Outro + AI Song