#172 - Claude and Gemini updates, Gemma 2, GPT-4 Critic
Update: 2024-07-01
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Our 172nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)
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- (00:00:00 ) Intro / Banter
- Tools & Apps
- (00:03:02 ) Anthropic Debuts Collaboration Tools for Claude AI Assistant
- (00:08:32 ) Google rolls out Gemini side panels for Gmail and other Workspace apps
- (00:12:30 ) OpenAI delays rolling out its 'Voice Mode' to July
- (00:15:40 ) OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Mac is now available to all users
- (00:17:27 ) Waymo ditches the waitlist and opens up its robotaxis to everyone in San Francisco
- (00:18:53 ) Figma announces big redesign with AI
- Applications & Business
- (00:21:37 ) Meet Sohu: The World’s First Transformer Specialized Chip ASIC
- (00:29:42 ) Huawei Has Reportedly Invested Billions In An R&D Facility That Will Allow It To Develop Advanced Chipmaking Machinery Similar To ASML & Others
- (00:32:17 ) China's ByteDance working with Broadcom to develop advanced AI chip, sources say
- (00:35:35 ) Chinese AI firms woo OpenAI users as US company plans API restrictions
- (00:39:45 ) OpenAI walks back controversial stock sale policies, will treat current and former employees the same
- Projects & Open Source
- (00:43:42 ) Meta Large Language Model Compiler: Foundation Models of Compiler Optimization
- (00:47:54 ) Google’s Gemma 2 series launches with not one, but two lightweight model options—a 9B and 27B
- (00:48:50 ) ESM3: Simulating 500 million years of evolution with a language model
- Research & Advancements
- (00:56:57 ) Finding GPT-4’s mistakes with GPT-4
- (01:03:30 ) Chinese-built ChatGLM exceeds GPT-4 Across Several Benchmarks
- (01:07:15 ) Performances are plateauing, let's make the leaderboard steep again
- (01:11:18 ) Structural mechanism of bridge RNA-guided recombination
- (01:15:01 ) Reconciling Kaplan and Chinchilla Scaling Laws
- Policy & Safety
- (01:17:42 ) Safety Alignment Should Be Made More Than Just a Few Tokens Deep
- (01:23:02 ) Y Combinator rallies start-ups against California’s AI safety bill
- (01:28:20 ) Pro-Kigali propagandists caught using Artificial Intelligence tools
- (01:21:40 ) Coordinated Disclosure of Dual-Use Capabilities: An Early Warning System for Advanced AI
- (01:35:08 ) Adversaries Can Misuse Combinations of Safe Models
- Mitigating Skeleton Key, a new type of generative AI jailbreak technique
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:39:35 ) Music labels sue AI music generators for copyright infringement
- (01:42:43 ) YouTube is trying to make AI music deals with major record labels
- (01:45:07 ) Toys ‘R’ Us Debuts First Video Ad Using Sora, OpenAI’s Text-to-Video Tool
- (01:49:12 ) Outro + AI Song
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