Last Week in AI

Our 196th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news!*and sometimes last last week's Recorded on 01/10/2024
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In this episode:
- Nvidia announced a $3,000 personal AI supercomputer called Digits, featuring the GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, aiming to lower the barrier for developers working on large models. - The U.S. Department of Justice finalizes a rule restricting the transmission of specific data types to countries of concern, including China and Russia, under executive order 14117.- Meta allegedly trained Llama on pirated content from LibGen, with internal concerns about the legality confirmed through court filings. - Microsoft paused construction on a section of a large data center project in Wisconsin to reassess based on new technological changes.
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Timestamps + Links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
(00:04:52) Sponsor Break
Tools & Apps
(00:05:55) Nvidia announces $3,000 personal AI supercomputer called Digits
(00:10:23) Meta removes AI character accounts after users criticize them as ‘creepy and unnecessary’
Applications & Business
(00:16:16) NVIDIA Is Reportedly Focused Towards “Custom Chip” Manufacturing, Recruiting Top Taiwanese Talent
(00:21:54) AI start-up Anthropic closes in on $60bn valuation
(00:25:38) Why OpenAI is Taking So Long to Launch Agents
(00:30:08) TSMC Set to Expand CoWoS Capacity to Record 75,000 Wafers in 2025, Doubling 2024 Output
(00:33:10) Microsoft 'pauses construction' on part of data center site in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin
(00:37:23) Google folds more AI teams into DeepMind to ‘accelerate the research to developer pipeline’
Projects & Open Source
(00:41:59) Cosmos World Foundation Model Platform for Physical AI
(00:48:21) Microsoft releases Phi-4 language model on Hugging Face
Research & Advancements
(00:50:16) PRIME: Online Reinforcement Learning with Process Rewards
(00:58:29) ICLR: In-Context Learning of Representations
(01:07:38) Do NOT Think That Much for 2+3=? On the Overthinking of o1-Like LLMs
(01:11:44) METAGENE-1: Metagenomic Foundation Model for Pandemic Monitoring
(01:15:45) TransPixar: Advancing Text-to-Video Generation with Transparency
(01:18:03) The amount of compute used to train frontier models has been growing at a breakneck pace of over 4x per year since 2018, resulting in an overall scale-up of more than 10,000x! But what factors are enabling this rapid growth?
Policy & Safety
(01:23:45) InfAlign: Inference-aware language model alignment
(01:28:44) Mark Zuckerberg gave Meta’s Llama team the OK to train on copyrighted works, filing claims
(01:33:19) Anthropic gives court authority to intervene if chatbot spits out song lyrics
(01:35:57) US government says companies are no longer allowed to send bulk data to these nations
(01:39:10) Trump announces $20B plan to build new data centers in the US
 

Our 195th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news!*and sometimes last last week's 
Recorded on 01/04/2024
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Note: apologies for Andrey's slurred speech and the jumpy editing, will be back to normal next week!
Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris. Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/.
Sponsors:
The Generator - An interdisciplinary AI lab empowering innovators from all fields to bring visionary ideas to life by harnessing the capabilities of artificial intelligence.
In this episode:
- OpenAI teases new deliberative alignment techniques in its O3 model, showcasing major improvements in reasoning benchmarks, whilst surprising with autonomy in hacks against chess engines. - Microsoft and OpenAI continue to wrangle over the terms of their partnership, highlighting tensions amid OpenAI's shift towards a for-profit model. - Chinese AI companies like DeepSeek and Quen release advanced open-source models, presenting significant contributions to AI capabilities and performance optimization. - Sakana AI introduces innovative applications of AI to the search for artificial life, emphasizing the potential and curiosity-driven outcomes of open-ended learning and exploration.
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Timestamps + Links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
(00:03:07) News Preview
(00:03:54) Response to listener comments
(00:05:00) Sponsor Break
Tools & Apps
(00:06:11) OpenAI announces new o3 model
(00:21:17) Alibaba slashes prices on large language models by up to 85% as China AI rivalry heats up
(00:23:04) ElevenLabs launches Flash, its fastest text-to-speech AI yet
Applications & Business
(00:24:24) OpenAI announces plan to transform into a for-profit company
(00:33:17) Microsoft and OpenAI Wrangle Over Terms of Their Blockbuster Partnership
(00:37:36) Elon Musk’s xAI gets investment from Nvidia in recent funding round: report
(00:39:43) Sam Altman’s nuclear energy startup signs one of the largest nuclear power deals to date
(00:41:13) OpenAI Search Leader Departs After Less Than a Year
(00:42:43) Senior OpenAI Researcher Radford Departs
Projects & Open Source
(00:45:21) DeepSeek-AI Just Released DeepSeek-V3: A Strong Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) Language Model with 671B Total Parameters with 37B Activated for Each Token
(00:54:14) Qwen Team Releases QvQ: An Open-Weight Model for Multimodal Reasoning
(00:58:09) LightOn and Answer.ai Releases ModernBERT: A New Model Series that is a Pareto Improvement over BERT with both Speed and Accuracy
Research & Advancements
(01:00:31) Deliberation in Latent Space via Differentiable Cache Augmentation
(01:05:14) Automating the Search for Artificial Life with Foundation Models
Policy & Safety
(01:10:27) Nonprofit group joins Elon Musk’s effort to block OpenAI’s for-profit transition
(01:14:35) OpenAI Researchers Propose 'Deliberative Alignment' : A Training Approach that Teaches LLMs to Explicitly Reason through Safety Specifications before Producing an Answer
(01:22:06) o1-preview autonomously hacked its environment rather than lose to Stockfish in our chess challenge. No adversarial prompting needed.
(01:27:22) Elon Musk’s xAI supercomputer gets 150MW power boost despite concerns over grid impact and local power stability
(01:29:06) DOE: Data centers consumed 4.4% of US power in 2023, could hit 12% by 2028
Synthetic Media & Art
(01:32:20) OpenAI failed to deliver the opt-out tool it promised by 2025
(01:36:15) Outro

Our 194th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news!*and sometimes last last week's 
Recorded on 12/19/2024Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris. Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/.
Sponsors:
The Generator - An interdisciplinary AI lab empowering innovators from all fields to bring visionary ideas to life by harnessing the capabilities of artificial intelligence.
In this episode:
- Google dominates AI news with multiple announcements, including a reasoning model and Project Mariner, an AI browsing agent. - Anthropic explores alignment faking in LLMs, revealing models may show deceptive compliance under certain conditions. - Apple observes a trend towards smaller but more efficient language models, bucking previous trends of scaling larger parameter counts. - Legal drama unfolds as Meta backs Elon Musk's opposition to OpenAI's profit status change, raising concerns about competitive fairness.
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Timestamps + Links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
(00:02:14) Response to listener comments
(00:08:52) News Preview
(00:10:01) Sponsor Break
Tools & Apps
(00:10:55) Google releases its own ‘reasoning’ AI model
(00:16:52) Google Gemini can now do more in-depth research
(00:21:58) Google DeepMind unveils a new video model to rival Sora
(00:27:50) Pika Labs releases AI video generator 2.0 with new features
(00:29:51) Google unveils Project Mariner: AI agents to use the web for you
(00:34:33) X gains a faster Grok model and a new ‘Grok button’
Applications & Business
(00:36:11) AI GPU clusters with one million GPUs are planned for 2027 — Broadcom says three AI supercomputers are in the works
(00:43:02) Meta asks the government to block OpenAI’s switch to a for-profit
(00:49:36) OpenAI says Elon Musk wanted it to be for-profit in 2017
(00:56:04)  EQTY Lab, Intel, and NVIDIA Unveil 'Verifiable Compute,' A Solution to Secure Trusted AI
(00:59:53) Liquid AI just raised $250M to develop a more efficient type of AI model
(01:03:19) Hundreds of OpenAI’s current and ex-employees are about to get a huge payday by cashing out up to $10 million each in a private stock sale
Projects & Open Source
(01:07:45) Phi-4 Technical Report
(01:13:04) DeepSeek-VL2: Mixture-of-Experts Vision-Language Models for Advanced Multimodal Understanding
(01:15:23) Meta AI Releases Apollo: A New Family of Video-LMMs Large Multimodal Models for Video Understanding
Research & Advancements
(01:16:34) Alignment faking in large language models
(01:28:39) Meta AI Introduces Byte Latent Transformer (BLT): A Tokenizer-Free Model That Scales Efficiently
(01:36:49) Frontier language models have become much smaller
(01:42:28) The Complexity Dynamics of Grokking
Policy & Safety
(01:46:49) Homeland Security gets its very own generative AI chatbot
(01:49:16) Pre-Deployment Evaluation of OpenAI’s o1 Model
(01:51:35) Pricing for key chipmaking material hits 13-year high following (01:53:46) Chinese export restrictions — China's restrictions on Gallium exports hit hard
Synthetic Media & Art
Meta debuts a tool for watermarking AI-generated videos
(01:55:27) Outro

Our 193rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news!*and sometimes last last week's 
Note: this one was recorded on 12/13, so the news is a bit outdated... will get things back on track soon!
Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris. Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/.
Sponsors:
The Generator - An interdisciplinary AI lab empowering innovators from all fields to bring visionary ideas to life by harnessing the capabilities of artificial intelligence.
In this episode:
- OpenAI launches Sora, a text-to-video model with significant capabilities, and Gemini 2.0 from Google showcasing agentic potential in AI tools. - Character.ai introduces a teen model to address safety concerns following two tragic incidents linked to addiction and harmful influence. - The U.S. government sets up a task force to support the rapid development of AI data centers, reflecting the critical need for robust infrastructure. - A paper from Anthropic reveals that frontier AI systems have reached the capability of self-replication, sparking discussions on future implications and safety protocols.
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Timestamps + Links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
(00:02:44) News Preview
(00:03:43) Response to listener comments
(00:09:50) Sponsor Break
Tools & Apps
(00:11:12) OpenAI has finally released Sora
(00:21:16) Google Reveals Gemini 2, AI Agents, and a Prototype Personal Assistant
(00:28:23) ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode adding video and screen sharing input (plus a Santa mode)
(00:30:43) Microsoft’s Copilot can browse the web with you using AI ‘Vision’
(00:32:31) Musk’s xAI has launched Grok image generation model
(00:35:22) Cognition Labs’ AI Software Engineer Devin Launched for Subscribers
(00:40:43) Apple launches its ChatGPT integration with Siri
(00:43:23) Reddit’s New AI Search Tool Helps You Find Reddit Answers Without Google
Applications & Business
(00:46:35) OpenAI Aiming to Eliminate Microsoft AGI Rule to Boost Future Investment
(00:53:34) GM halts funding of robotaxi development by Cruise
(00:57:08) Largest AI data centre in the world to be built in northwest Alberta
(01:02:36) Meta announces 4 million sq ft, 2GW Louisiana data center campus
(01:05:22) Google’s future data centers will be built next to solar and wind farms
Projects & Open Source
(01:08:37) Google DeepMind Just Released PaliGemma 2: A New Family of Open-Weight Vision Language Models (3B, 10B and 28B)
Research & Advancements
(01:13:51) Training Large Language Models to Reason in a Continuous Latent Space
(01:25:37) An Evolved Universal Transformer Memory
(01:31:48) APOLLO: SGD-like Memory, AdamW-level Performance
(01:37:59) Clio: A system for privacy-preserving insights into real-world AI use
Policy & Safety
(01:39:47) Character.AI steps up teen safety after bots allegedly caused suicide, self-harm
(01:45:22) What Trump’s New AI and Crypto Czar David Sacks Means For the Tech Industry
(01:49:03) Frontier AI systems have surpassed the self-replicating red line
(01:53:52) Chip war: China launches antitrust probe into US semiconductor giant Nvidia in sign of escalation
(01:56:53) White House Creating Task Force on AI Datacenter Infrastructure
(02:00:00) US clears export of advanced AI chips to UAE under Microsoft deal, Axios says
(02:02:19) Outro

Our 192nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news!*and sometimes last last week's 
Note: this one was recorded on 12/04 , so the news is a bit outdated...
Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris. Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/.
Sponsors:
The Generator - An interdisciplinary AI lab empowering innovators from all fields to bring visionary ideas to life by harnessing the capabilities of artificial intelligence.
The AI safety book “Uncontrollable" which is not a doomer book, but instead lays out the reasonable case for AI safety and what we can do about it. Max TEGMARK said that “Uncontrollable” is a captivating, balanced, and remarkably up-to-date book on the most important issue of our time" - find it on Amazon today!
In this episode:
OpenAI launches a $200 ChatGPT Pro subscription with advanced capabilities, while Amazon unveils cost-effective Nova multimodal models at the re:Invent conference.
Meta releases LLAMA 3.3 70B model, showing significant gains through post-training techniques, and Alibaba introduces QWQ, a reasoning model rivaling OpenAI's O1.
Amazon collaborates with Anthropic on a massive AI supercomputer project, and Black Forest Labs eyes a $200 million funding round for growth in AI tools.
New research from DeepMind's Genie 2 generates interactive 3D worlds from text and images, progressing AI's understanding of world models and interactive environments.
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Timestamps + Links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
(00:02:34) Sponsor Break
Tools & Apps
(00:04:19) OpenAI confirms new $200 monthly subscription, which includes its o1 reasoning model
(00:10:40) Amazon announces Nova, a new family of multimodal AI models
(00:17:13) ElevenLabs launches GenFM to turn user content into AI-powered podcasts
(00:20:21) Google’s new generative AI video model is now available
Applications & Business
(00:23:56) Elon Musk files for injunction to halt OpenAI’s transition to a for-profit
(00:29:40) Amazon Is Building a Mega AI Supercomputer With Anthropic
(00:34:15) It Sounds an Awful Lot Like OpenAI Is Adding Ads to ChatGPT
(00:38:23) A16z in Talks to Lead $200 Million Round in Black Forest Labs, Startup Behind AI Images on Grok
(00:41:10) Bezos Backs AI Chipmaker Vying With Nvidia at $2.6 Billion Value
Projects & Open Source
(00:45:25) Meta unveils a new, more efficient Llama model
(00:50:00) Alibaba releases an ‘open’ challenger to OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model
(00:55:21) DeMo: Decoupled Momentum Optimization
(00:57:01) PRIME Intellect Releases INTELLECT-1 (Instruct + Base): The First 10B Parameter Language Model Collaboratively Trained Across the Globe
(01:03:03) Tencent Launches HunyuanVideo, an Open-Source AI Video Model
Research & Advancements
(01:09:23) DeepMind’s Genie 2 can generate interactive worlds that look like video games
(01:16:43) Language Models are Hidden Reasoners: Unlocking Latent Reasoning Capabilities via Self-Rewarding
(01:20:40) Densing Law of LLMs
(01:25:59) Monet: Mixture of Monosemantic Experts for Transformers
Policy & Safety
(01:30:56) Commerce Strengthens Export Controls to Restrict China’s Capability to Produce Advanced Semiconductors for Military Applications
(01:37:33) China retaliates against latest US chip restrictions
(01:40:52) OpenAI Is Working With Anduril to Supply the US Military With AI
(01:43:24) On Targeted Manipulation and Deception when Optimizing LLMs for User Feedback
(01:47:52) AI Safety Researcher Quits OpenAI, Saying Its Trajectory Alarms Her
(01:51:52) Meta Claims AI Content Was Less than 1% of Election Misinformation
(01:55:05) Outro

Our 191st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris. Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/.
Sponsors:
The Generator - An interdisciplinary AI lab empowering innovators from all fields to bring visionary ideas to life by harnessing the capabilities of artificial intelligence
If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form.
Timestamps + Links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
(00:02:55) Response to listener comments
(00:09:30) Sponsor Break
Tools & Apps
(00:10:52) OpenAI’s Sora video generator appears to have leaked
(00:21:11) Mistral unleashes Pixtral Large and upgrades Le Chat into full-on ChatGPT competitor
(00:26:39) Ignite 2024 introduces new AI agents and more for Microsoft 365 Copilot
(00:28:50) H, the AI startup that raised $220M, launches its first product: Runner H for ‘agentic’ applications
(00:31:20) Anthropic bets on personalization in the AI arms race with new ‘styles’ feature
(00:33:42) ElevenLabs now offers ability to build conversational AI agents
(00:37:08) Perplexity introduces a shopping feature for Pro users in the U.S.
(00:38:49) Google’s Gemini chatbot now has memory
(00:43:03) Suno V4 Ai Music Generator Is Out Now And It’s Very Impressive
(00:46:28) Introducing FLUX.1 Tools
(00:49:51) OpenAI just gave ChatGPT a major 'creativity' upgrade
(00:51:26) Runway launches Frames — a new AI image generator that creates custom worlds
Applications & Business
(00:54:56) OpenAI Email Archives (from Musk v. Altman)
(01:02:01) Amazon to invest another $4 billion in Anthropic, OpenAI's biggest rival
(01:05:41) Amazon Robots Struggling to Keep Up With Human Workers
Projects & Open Source
(01:11:27) DeepSeek’s first reasoning model R1-Lite-Preview turns heads, beating OpenAI o1 performance
(01:15:30) OpenScholar: The open-source A.I. that’s outperforming GPT-4o in scientific research
Research & Advancements
(01:18:02) A statistical approach to model evaluations
(01:22:08) Scaling Laws for Precision
(01:25:10) Cerebras Delivers Record-Breaking Performance with Meta’s Llama 3.1 405B Model
Policy & Safety
(01:28:01) Sam Altman will co-chair San Francisco mayor-elect Daniel Lurie’s transition team
(01:32:21) Biden’s final meeting with Xi Jinping reaps agreement on AI and nukes
Synthetic Media & Art
(01:33:07) How Did You Do On The AI Art Turing Test?
(01:38:27) Outro

Our 190th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news!*and sometimes last last week's
Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris. Note from Andrey: this one is coming out a bit later than planned, apologies! Next one will be coming out sooner. Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/.
Sponsors:
The Generator - An interdisciplinary AI lab empowering innovators from all fields to bring visionary ideas to life by harnessing the capabilities of artificial intelligence
In this episode: * OpenAI's pitch for a $100 billion data center and AI strategy plan outlines infrastructure and regulatory needs, emphasizing AI's foundational role akin to electricity. * Google's Gemini model challenges OpenAI's dominance, showing strong performance in chatbot arenas alongside generative AI advancements. * DeepMind's AlphaFold3 gets open-sourced for academic use, while new chips from NVIDIA and Google show significant performance boosts. * Anthropic and TSMC updates highlight strategic funding, regulation influences, and the complex dynamics of AI hardware and international policy.
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Timestamps + Links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
(00:02:44) News Preview
(00:03:34) Sponsor Break
Tools & Apps
(00:04:36) OpenAI, Google and Anthropic Are Struggling to Build More Advanced AI
(00:16:22) OpenAI Nears Launch of AI Agent Tool to Automate Tasks for Users
(00:19:14) Google drops new Gemini model and it goes straight to the top of the LLM leaderboard
(00:19:14)  Chinese AI startup takes aim at OpenAI's Sora with image-to-video tool launch
(00:20:04) Introducing the Forge Reasoning API Beta and Nous Chat: An Evolution in LLM Inference
Applications & Business
(00:23:47) OpenAI Discusses AI Data Center That Could Cost $100 Billion
(00:26:48) Elon Musk's massive AI data center gets unlocked — xAI gets approved for 150MW of power, enabling all 100,000 GPUs to run concurrently
(00:29:34) Newest Google and Nvidia Chips Speed AI Training
(00:34:45) Ex-OpenAI CTO Murati’s New Team Takes Shape
(00:34:45) Amazon Discussing New Multibillion-Dollar Investment in Anthropic
Projects & Open Source
(00:37:52) Google DeepMind open-sources AlphaFold 3, ushering in a new era for drug discovery and molecular biology
(00:41:29) Near plans to build world’s largest 1.4T parameter open-source AI model
Research & Advancements
(00:45:38) The Super Weight in Large Language Models
(00:55:42) Compositional Abilities Emerge Multiplicatively: Exploring Diffusion Models on a Synthetic Task
(01:03:47) Mixture-of-Transformers: A Sparse and Scalable Architecture for Multi-Modal Foundation Models
(01:08:14) Contextualized Evaluations: Taking the Guesswork Out of Language Model Evaluations
Policy & Safety
(01:11:14) The Code of Practice for general-purpose AI offers a unique opportunity for the EU
(01:15:38) Three Sketches of ASL-4 Safety Case Components
(01:23:05) U.S Department of Commerce finalizes $6.6 billion CHIPS Act funding for TSMC Fab 21 Arizona site , TSMC cannot make 2nm chips abroad now: MOEA
(01:26:21) OpenAI to present plans for U.S. AI strategy and an alliance to compete with China
(01:30:42) OpenAI loses another lead safety researcher, Lilian Weng
(01:33:00) Outro

Our 189th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris. Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/.
In this episode:
* OpenAI's acquisition of chat.com and internal shifts, including hardware lead hire and hardware model leaks, signal significant strategy pivots and challenges with model scaling and security. * Saudi Arabia plans a $100 billion AI initiative aiming to rival UAE's tech hub, highlighting the region's escalating AI investments. * U.S. penalties on GlobalFoundries for violating sanctions against SMIC underline ongoing challenges in enforcing AI-chip export controls. * Anthropic collaborates with Palantir and AWS to integrate CLAWD into defense environments, marking a significant policy shift for the company.
Sponsors:
The Generator - An interdisciplinary AI lab empowering innovators from all fields to bring visionary ideas to life by harnessing the capabilities of artificial intelligence.
The AI safety book “Uncontrollable" which is not a doomer book, but instead lays out the reasonable case for AI safety and what we can do about it. Max TEGMARK said that “Uncontrollable” is a captivating, balanced, and remarkably up-to-date book on the most important issue of our time" - find it on Amazon today!
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Timestamps + Links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
(00:01:28) News Preview
(00:02:10) Response to listener comments
(00:05:02) Sponsor Break
Tools & Apps
(00:07:31) OpenAI Introduces ‘Predicted Outputs’ Feature: Speeding Up GPT-4o by ~5x for Tasks like Editing Docs or Refactoring Code
(00:11:55) Anthropic’s Haiku 3.5 surprises experts with an “intelligence” price increase
(00:17:10) Introducing FLUX1.1 [pro] Ultra and Raw Modes
(00:19:11) X is testing a free version of Grok AI chatbot in select regions
Applications & Business
(00:21:39) OpenAI acquired Chat.com
(00:23:40) Saudis Plan $100 Billion AI Powerhouse to Rival UAE Tech Hub
(00:28:28) Meta’s former hardware lead for Orion is joining OpenAI
(00:31:38) OpenAI Accidentally Leaked Its Upcoming o1 Model to Anyone With a Certain Web Address
(00:35:50) Nvidia Rides AI Wave to Pass Apple as World’s Largest Company
Projects & Open Source
(00:37:53) ‘Unrestricted’ AI group Nous Research launches first chatbot — with guardrails
(00:41:48) FrontierMath: The Benchmark that Highlights AI’s Limits in Mathematics
(00:46:29) Hunyuan-Large: An Open-Source MoE Model with 52 Billion Activated Parameters by Tencent
Research & Advancements
(00:49:55) Applying “Golden Gate Claude” mechanistic interpretability techniques to protein language models.
(00:58:3) Relaxed Recursive Transformers: Effective Parameter Sharing with Layer-wise LoRA
(01:05:55) From Naptime to Big Sleep: Using Large Language Models To Catch Vulnerabilities In Real-World Code
(01:10:22) OpenAI reportedly developing new strategies to deal with AI improvement slowdown
Policy & Safety
(01:19:52)  What Donald Trump’s Win Means For AI
(01:28:44) Fab Whack-A-Mole: Chinese Companies are Evading U.S. Sanctions
(01:33:57) US fines GlobalFoundries for shipping chips to sanctioned Chinese firm
(01:36:55) Anthropic teams up with Palantir and AWS to sell its AI to defense customers
(01:39:23) Outro

Our 188th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris. Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/.
This episode was sponsored by The Generator.If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form.In this episode:* Meta's open-source models utilized by China's military prompt regulatory adjustments; US agencies gain access to counterbalance. * OpenAI partners with Broadcom and AMD to develop custom AI hardware, aiming for profitability and reducing inference costs. * Physical Intelligence unveils a generalist robot control policy with a $400M funding boost, showcasing significant advancements in zero-shot task performance. * New U.S. regulation mandates quarterly reporting for large AI model training and computing cluster acquisitions, aiming to bolster national security.
Timestamps + Links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
(00:02:16) News Preview
(00:03:05) Response to listener comments / corrections
(00:05:00) Sponsor Break
Tools & Apps
(00:06:28) OpenAI’s search engine is now live in ChatGPT
(00:12:18) Image Playground, ChatGPT, and more Apple Intelligence features roll out in beta
(00:14:34) GitHub Copilot will support models from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI
(00:19:00) Introducing the analysis tool in Claude.ai
(00:21:34) ElevenLabs Introduces Voice Design: A New AI Feature that Generates a Unique Voice from a Text Prompt Alone
(00:24:18) Midjourney's new web editor lets you tweak images uploaded from your PC
(00:26:02) Watch out, Midjourney — Recraft just announced new AI image generator model
Applications & Business
(00:29:57) Meta strikes multi-year AI deal with Reuters
(00:33:15) OpenAI will start using AMD chips and could make its own AI hardware in 2026
(00:40:47) Elon Musk's xAI in talks to raise funding valuing it at $40 billion, WSJ reports
(00:46:07) Physical Intelligence, a Robot A.I. Specialist, Raises Millions From Bezos
(00:48:32) Waymo ramps up robotaxi push with $5.6 bn in funding
(00:49:11) Alphabet's Waymo Serving Over 150,000 Paid Robotaxi Rides Every Week Now, Surging 50% In 2 Months
Projects & Open Source
(00:51:23) Meta AI Silently Releases NotebookLlama: An Open Version of Google’s NotebookLM
(00:54:59) Meta Releases Quantized Llama 3.2 with 4x Inference Speed on Android Phones
(00:59:16) OpenAI Releases SimpleQA: A New AI Benchmark that Measures the Factuality of Language Models
Research & Advancements
(01:08:19) This Is a Glimpse of the Future of AI Robot
(01:15:06) Can Language Models Replace Programmers? REPOCOD Says 'Not Yet'
(01:19:01) Brain-like Functional Organization within Large Language Models
(01:21:20) Decart’s AI simulates a real-time, playable version of Minecraft
(01:25:39) Raising the bar on SWE-bench Verified with Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Policy & Safety
(01:29:06) Commerce just proposed the most significant federal AI regulation to date – and no one noticed
(01:35:04)Anthropic warns of AI catastrophe if governments don't regulate in 18 months
(01:39:32) Open Source Bites Back as China’s Military Makes Full Use of Meta AI
(01:46:35) Meta says it’s making its Llama models available for US national security applications
(01:48:16) Outro

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Timestamps + Links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
(00:03:07) Response to listener comments / corrections
(00:05:13) Sponsor Read)
Tools & Apps
(00:06:22) Anthropic’s latest AI update can use a computer on its own
(00:18:09) AI video startup Genmo launches Mochi 1, an open source rival to Runway, Kling, and others
(00:20:37) Canva has a shiny new text-to-image generator
(00:23:35) Canvas Beta brings Remix, Extend, and Magic Fill to Ideogram users
(00:26:16) StabilityAI releases Stable Diffusion 3.5 
(00:28:27) Bringing Agentic Workflows into Inflection for Enterprise
Applications & Business
(00:32:35) Crusoe’s $3.4B joint venture to build AI data center campus with up to 100,000 GPUs
(00:39:08) Anthropic reportedly in early talks to raise new funding on up to $40B valuation
(00:45:47) Longtime policy researcher Miles Brundage leaves OpenAI
(00:49:53) NVIDIA’s Blackwell GB200 AI Servers Ready For Mass Deployment In December
(00:52:41) Foxconn building Nvidia superchip facility in Mexico, executives say
(00:55:27) xAI, Elon Musk’s AI startup, launches an API
Projects & Open Source
(00:58:32) INTELLECT-1: The First Decentralized 10-Billion-Parameter AI Model Training
(01:06:34) Meta FAIR Releases Eight New AI Research Artifacts—Models, Datasets, and Tools to Inspire the AI Community
(01:10:02) Google DeepMind is making its AI text watermark open source
Research & Advancements
(01:13:21) OpenAI researchers develop new model that speeds up media generation by 50X
(01:17:54) How much AI compute is out there, and who owns it?
(01:25:28) Rewarding Progress: Scaling Automated Process Verifiers for LLM Reasoning
(01:33:30) Inference Scaling for Long-Context Retrieval Augmented Generation
Policy & Safety
(01:41:50) Announcing our updated Responsible Scaling Policy
(01:48:52) Anthropic is testing AI’s capacity for sabotage
(01:56:30) OpenAI asked US to approve energy-guzzling 5GW data centers, report says
(02:00:05) US Probes TSMC’s Dealings with Huawei
(02:03:03) TikTok owner ByteDance taps TSMC to make its own AI GPUs to stop relying on Nvidia — the company has reportedly spent over $2 billion on Nvidia AI GPUs
(02:06:37) Outro