After smashing earnings once again, Nvidia rocketed up 15% and now has a bigger market cap than Meta, Amazon, and Alphabet. NLW explores the implications of Nvidia's success for the rest of the AI space. Also, Google turns off AI image generation following intense online criticism. INTERESTED IN THE AI EDUCATION BETA? Learn more and sign up https://bit.ly/aibeta ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdo...
Feb 22, 2024•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Elon says they're having discussions with the Midjourney team. Meanwhile, Google introduces its first open model Gemma, and ChatGPT is going bonkers. INTERESTED IN THE AI EDUCATION BETA? Learn more and sign up https://bit.ly/aibeta ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIB...
Feb 21, 2024•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast Alongside Gemini 1.5's massive new context window, and Sora's mindblowing video generation, Groq has come along to redefine how fast we think LLMs can be. NLW explores people's reactions and the implications for new use cases. INTERESTED IN THE AI EDUCATION BETA? Learn more and sign up https://bit.ly/aibeta Today's Sponsors: Notion - Notion AI. Knowledge, answers, ideas. One click away. - https://notion.com/aibreakdown ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most importa...
Feb 20, 2024•19 min•Transcript available on Metacast NLW discusses the rise in anti-AI sentiment that seems to have followed the public announcement of OpenAI's new video generation model Sora. He provides a set of explanations for which this particular acrimony is arising now. INTERESTED IN THE AI EDUCATION BETA? Learn more and sign up https://bit.ly/aibeta ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscri...
Feb 19, 2024•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast On today's episode NLW digs into the recently published research on OpenAI's Sora. Read more: https://openai.com/research/video-generation-models-as-world-simulators ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http:/...
Feb 18, 2024•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast A reading and discussion of https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/14/opinion/ai-economy-jobs-colleges.html ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/
Feb 17, 2024•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welp, they've done it again. On a day when it was supposed to be all about Google's million+ token lengths in Gemini 1.5, OpenAI completely stole their thunder with the announcement of Sora, easily the most advanced text-to-video generation model we've seen. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: http...
Feb 16, 2024•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Google surprises everyone with a massive context window on their new Gemini 1.5 model. Speaking of huge context windows, Magic.dev raises $100M+ for a model that apparently can handle multiple million token context windows. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown...
Feb 15, 2024•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast OpenAI makes headlines with Andrej Karpathy's departure and the launch of a groundbreaking memory feature for ChatGPT. This video delves into the implications for OpenAI's direction and the evolving landscape of AI research. Before that on the Brief, Nvidia launches a chatbot that runs on your PC. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscr...
Feb 14, 2024•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast OpenAI is growing even faster than we knew, according to new numbers shared with the Financial Times. Also on this episode, NLW covers the White House exploring cryptographic proof to verify official statements. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the co...
Feb 13, 2024•17 min•Transcript available on Metacast AI hype continues to drive results in the market. Also on this episode, Google is investing $25m into AI worker training in Europe. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/
Feb 12, 2024•17 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ukraine has become a testing lab for advanced AI integrations into combat operations. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/
Feb 11, 2024•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast A reading and discussion inspired by https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/on-holding-back-the-strange-ai-tide ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/
Feb 10, 2024•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast WSJ writes about an incredibly ambitious plan to transform the landscape for compute. Additionally, the White House has started an AI Safety Consortium. Today's Sponsors: Notion - Notion AI. Knowledge, answers, ideas. One click away. - https://notion.com/aibreakdown ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTu...
Feb 10, 2024•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast Bard is no more! Bard has become Gemini and Gemini now features Gemini Advanced, which uses Gemini Ultra 1.0 -- the first non OpenAI model to hit GPT-4 levels. Reports also suggest that OpenAI's next big play is AI agents. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown ...
Feb 08, 2024•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast Microsoft has released a 60-second Super Bowl commercial focused on their AI Copilot. NLW explores how much it says about the way the company is thinking about AI (and how central it is to Microsoft's future). Also on the show: can Nvidia use AI to speed up its chip design process? ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Br...
Feb 07, 2024•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Vesuvius Challenge is a $1m prize to use AI to decipher text seemingly lost on ancient Greek papyri in the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius that buried Pompei. NLW covers the amazing results. Today's Sponsors: Notion - Notion AI. Knowledge, answers, ideas. One click away. - https://notion.com/aibreakdown ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Sub...
Feb 06, 2024•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast According to a changelog found by an Android developer, Google Ultra is coming out on Wednesday, and Bard will be rebranded to Gemini. Also on this episode, Donald Trump calls AI "Dangerous and Scary" ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bi...
Feb 05, 2024•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast A reading and discussion of an essay by one of Biden's most senior economic advisors. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/op-ed-biden-admin-says-rules-must-ensure-ai-boom-does-right-by-workers-192912242.html ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: ...
Feb 03, 2024•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Apple AI is coming this fall! At least according to a recent earnings call with CEO Tim Cook. Also, Bard announces image generation, Microsoft brings Copilot to Sales and Service, Amazon introduces Rufus shopping bot, Meta is implementing its own chips and more. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: ...
Feb 02, 2024•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this extended brief, NLW covers: the FCC's new push to make AI robocalls illegal; VW's new AI lab, Mastercard's fraud detection AI, and much more. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.netwo...
Feb 01, 2024•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast A new study has some surprising results for which AI applications are being the most used. Plus, is Wall Street getting concerned about the cost of AI? ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.net...
Jan 31, 2024•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast OpenAI has launched an education and safety initiative with Common Sense Media. Also, Biden's Executive Order on AI bears fruit. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/
Jan 30, 2024•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast NLW looks at recent comments from Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo about an LLM disclosure regime. Plus, Elon Musk's role in AI. ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/
Jan 30, 2024•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast A discussion prompted by Esther Dyson's new essay "Don’t Fuss About Training AIs. Train Our Kids" https://www.theinformation.com/articles/dont-fuss-about-training-ais-train-our-kids?rc=jrwr4u LEARN AI THIS YEAR! Registration is very briefly open for our February cohort of our AI Education Beta program. Get access to a library of 60+ tutorials, case studies and challenges New lessons drop every week day Join a passionate community of like-minded learners Topics include LLMs, AI nocode tools, imag...
Jan 27, 2024•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast A new partnership between Google Cloud and the 'Github for AI/ML models' team up to make open source tools more accessible to developers. Plus, the FTC is investigating Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Anthropic and OpenAI on antitrust concerns. LEARN AI THIS YEAR! Registration is very briefly open for our February cohort of our AI Education Beta program. Get access to a library of 60+ tutorials, case studies and challenges New lessons drop every week day Join a passionate community of like-minded lea...
Jan 26, 2024•17 min•Transcript available on Metacast If anyone can make AI deepfakes a mainstream issue it's Taylor Swift. Plus geopolitical competition around compute access heats up. ** LEARN AI THIS YEAR! Registration is very briefly open for our February cohort of our AI Education Beta program. Get access to a library of 60+ tutorials, case studies and challenges New lessons drop every week day Join a passionate community of like-minded learners Topics include LLMs, AI nocode tools, image generators, voice synthesizers, AI for professional app...
Jan 25, 2024•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Google Chrome announces 3 AI features for Chrome as well as an innovative new Video generation tool Lumiere. Also SAP is restructuring 8000 jobs around AI. Interested in the EDU Beta? Learn more and sign up here: https://bit.ly/aibeta ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@The...
Jan 24, 2024•18 min•Transcript available on Metacast A recent MIT study explored how cost effective automation really was and found that only 23% of jobs that could be automated away would actually have economics that made sense to do so. Also on this episode, NLW looks at an AI Biden robocaller in New Hampshire that seems to portend what many think will be a new reality of election fraud this year. Interested in the EDU Beta? Learn more and sign up here: https://bit.ly/aibeta AI Agent database: https://e2b.dev/ai-agents ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The...
Jan 23, 2024•17 min•Transcript available on Metacast Bloomberg and FT report on Sam Altman's latest efforts to raise billions to build more AI chip manufacturing capacity. Plus ElevenLabs becomes AI's latest unicorn. Interested in the EDU Beta? Learn more and sign up here: https://bit.ly/aibeta ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube....
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