#160 - Nvidia's new GPU, Microsoft pays for Inflection AI, Grok-1 open sourced, Jeremie's Action Plan
Mar 24, 2024•2 hr 40 min•Ep. 199
Episode description
Our 160th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Timestamps + links:
- Tools & Apps
- Applications & Business
- (00:13:31) Nvidia reveals Blackwell B200 GPU, the ‘world’s most powerful chip’ for AI
- (00:19:34) Microsoft to Pay Inflection AI $650 Million After Scooping Up Most of Staff
- (00:24:33) Figure 01: Conversations & Actions in Humanoid Robotics!
- (00:28:07) OpenAI's GPT-4.5 Turbo leaked on search engines and could launch in June
- (00:30:32) Abu Dhabi in talks to invest in OpenAI chip venture
- (00:33:43) Nvidia Announces GR00T, a Foundation Model For Humanoids
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
- (00:46:52) DiPaCo: Distributed Path Composition
- (00:53:58) MM1: Methods, Analysis & Insights from Multimodal LLM Pre-training
- (00:59:37) PERL: Parameter Efficient Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
- (01:01:55) VideoAgent: Long-form Video Understanding with Large Language Model as Agent
- (01:05:38) MusicHiFi: Fast High-Fidelity Stereo Vocoding
- Policy & Safety
- (01:06:44) The WMDP Benchmark: Measuring and Reducing Malicious Use With Unlearning
- (01:12:43) Exclusive: U.S. Must Move ‘Decisively’ to Avert ‘Extinction-Level’ Threat From AI, Government-Commissioned Report Says
- (01:18:18) Evaluating Frontier Models for Dangerous Capabilities
- (01:22:55) Chinese and western scientists identify ‘red lines’ on AI risks
- (01:26:11) Google fined $272M by French government over AI use of news content
- (01:27:58) Elvis Act Signed Into Tennessee Law to Protect Musicians From AI Deepfakes
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:30:17) AI-Generated Science
- (01:35:35) YouTube adds new AI-generated content labeling tool
- Fun!