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#197 - AI in Gmail+Docs, MiniMax-01, Titans, Transformer^2
Last Week in AI
1 hour 23 minutes 52 seconds
5 months ago
#197 - AI in Gmail+Docs, MiniMax-01, Titans, Transformer^2
Our 197th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!Recorded on 01/17/2024
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In this episode:
- Google and Mistral sign deals with AP and AFP, respectively, to deliver up-to-date news through their AI platforms. - ChatGPT introduces a tasks feature for reminders and to-dos, positioning itself more as a personal assistant. - Synthesia raises $180 million to enhance its AI video platform for generating videos of human avatars. - New U.S. guidelines restrict exporting AI chips to various countries, impacting Nvidia and other tech firms.
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Timestamps + Links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
(00:04:29) News Preview
(00:05:09) Response to listener comments
(00:05:58) Sponsor Break
Tools & Apps
(00:07:01) Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free — but raising the price of Workspace
(00:07:52) Microsoft relaunches Copilot for business with free AI chat and pay-as-you-go agents
(00:12:36) Google signs deal with AP to deliver up-to-date news through its Gemini AI chatbot
(00:18:08) Mistral signs deal with AFP to offer up-to-date answers in Le Chat
(00:18:45) ChatGPT can now handle reminders and to-dos
Applications & Business
(00:22:53) Palmer Luckey’s AI Defense Company Anduril Is Building a $1 Billion Plant in Ohio
(00:28:36) OpenAI is bankrolling Axios’ expansion into four new markets
(00:29:39) AI researcher François Chollet founds a new AI lab focused on AGI
(00:32:18) Nvidia-backed AI video platform Synthesia doubles valuation to $2.1 billion
(00:34:46) Anysphere Raises $105M in Series B
(00:40:14) Harvey Valuation of 3 Billion
Projects & Open Source
(00:46:12) MiniMax-01: Scaling Foundation Models with Lightning Attention
(00:51:16) MinMo: A Multimodal Large Language Model with Approximately 8B Parameters for Seamless Voice Interaction
(00:53:01) HALoGEN: Fantastic LLM Hallucinations and Where to Find Them
Research & Advancements
(00:57:03) Titans: Learning to Memorize at Test Time
(01:04:38) Transformer2: Self-adaptive LLMs
(01:08:15) Inference-Time Scaling for Diffusion Models beyond Scaling Denoising Steps
Policy & Safety
(01:11:23) Biden administration proposes sweeping new restrictions on exporting AI chips
(01:13:56) Biden orders Energy, Defense departments to lease sites for AI data centers, clean energy generation
(01:15:00) OpenAI presents its preferred version of AI regulation in a new ‘blueprint’
(01:16:15) More teens report using ChatGPT for schoolwork, despite the tech’s faults
Synthetic Media & Art
(01:17:55) In AI copyright case, Zuckerberg turns to YouTube for his defense
(01:19:53) Outro
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