#145 - OpenAI’s Q*, Claude 2.1, Stable Video Diffusion, Starling-7B, Orca 2, international agreements
Dec 02, 2023•1 hr 54 min•Ep. 184
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Our 145th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, this time around with guest co-hosts Kevin and Gavin from AI For Humans podcast
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Timestamps + links:
- Tools & Apps
- (06:00) OpenAI rival Anthropic makes its Claude chatbot even more useful
- (12:33) Stability AI debuts Stable Video Diffusion models in research preview
- (16:33) Generative Video Startup Pika Labs Launches Version 1.0, Raises $55 Million in Funding
- (25:25) Screenshots show xAI’s chatbot Grok on X’s web app
- (30:37) Amazon Introduces Q, an A.I. Chatbot for Companies
- Applications & Business
- (34:28) Unpacking the hype around OpenAI’s rumored new Q* model
- (47:37) NVIDIA Announces Financial Results for Third Quarter Fiscal 2024
- (52:40) Nvidia Delays Rollout Of China-Focused AI Chip: Report
- (56:31) Share sale set to test financial impact of OpenAI’s leadership turmoil
- (58:55) Amazon and Salesforce Expand Partnership to Add New AI Capabilities
- (59:55) AI21 takes Series C to $208 million with additional $53 million in funding
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
- (01:16:07) Orca 2: Teaching Small Language Models How to Reason
- (01:22:16) New technique can accelerate language models by 300x
- (01:23:35) DeepMind Says New Multi-Game AI Is a Step Toward More General Intelligence
- (01:27:00) GAIA: A Benchmark for General AI Assistants
- (01:30:45) Language Models are Super Mario: Absorbing Abilities from Homologous Models as a Free Lunch
- Policy & Safety
- (01:33:42) US, Britain, other countries ink agreement to make AI 'secure by design'
- (01:36:07) Chinese GPU recycling factories have a workaround for the US government's newly imposed export rules — modified NVIDIA RTX 4090 cards serve as great AI accelerators
- (01:39:00) The EU AI Act needs Foundation Model Regulation
- Putin to boost AI work in Russia to fight a Western monopoly he says is ‘unacceptable and dangerous’
- Inside U.S. Efforts to Untangle an A.I. Giant’s Ties to China
- (01:41:55) More than half of Americans are worried about AI than excited
- (01:46:10) State Dept prioritizes ‘AI-ready workforce’ in its first AI strategy
- US chip export ban is hurting China’s AI startups, not so much the giants yet
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:52:23) Outro
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