#176 - BIG WEEK for OSS! SearchGPT, Lamma 3.1 405B, Mistral Large 2
Update: 2024-08-03
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Our 176th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
NOTE: apologies for this episode coming out about a week late, things got in the way of editing it...
With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)
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- (00:00:00 ) Intro Song
- (00:00:34 ) Intro Banter
- Tools & Apps
- (00:03:39 ) OpenAI announces SearchGPT, its AI-powered search engine
- (00:08:03 ) Google gives free Gemini users access to its faster, lighter 1.5 Flash AI model
- (00:09:10 ) X launches underwhelming Grok-powered ‘More About This Account’ feature
- (00:11:36 ) Kuaishou Launches Full Beta Testing for 'Kling AI' to Global Users, Elevates Model Capabilities
- (00:13:39 ) Adobe rolls out more generative AI features to Illustrator and Photoshop
- (00:14:25 ) Meta AI gets new ‘Imagine me’ selfie feature
- Projects & Open Source
- (00:15:19 ) Meta releases open-source AI model it says rivals OpenAI, Google tech
- (00:28:23 ) Mistral AI Unveils Mistral Large 2, Beats Llama 3.1 on Code and Math
- (00:34:00 ) Groq’s open-source Llama AI model tops leaderboard, outperforming GPT-4o and Claude in function calling
- (00:36:35 ) Apple shows off open AI prowess: new models outperform Mistral and Hugging Face offerings
- Applications & Business
- (00:40:25 ) Elon Musk wants Tesla to invest $5 billion into his newest startup, xAI — if shareholders approve
- (00:43:01 ) Nvidia said to be prepping Blackwell GPUs for Chinese market
- (00:46:28 ) Toronto AI company Cohere to indemnify customers who are sued for any copyright violations
- (00:49:09 ) AI startup Cohere raises US$500-million, valuing company at US$5.5-billion
- Research & Advancements
- (00:52:01 ) AI achieves silver-medal standard solving International Mathematical Olympiad problems
- (00:56:47 ) A Multimodal Automated Interpretability Agent
- (01:00:56 ) MINT-1T: Scaling Open-Source Multimodal Data by 10x: A Multimodal Dataset with One Trillion Tokens
- Policy & Safety
- (01:02:56 ) Improving Model Safety Behavior with Rule-Based Rewards
- (01:06:39 ) Senators demand OpenAI detail efforts to make its AI safe
- (01:10:59 ) OpenAI reassigns top AI safety executive Aleksandr Madry to role focused on AI reasoning
- (01:13:08 ) As new tech threatens jobs, Silicon Valley promotes no-strings cash aid
- (01:17:33 ) Democratic senators seek to reverse Supreme Court ruling that restricts federal agency power
- Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:23:03 ) Outro
- (01:23:58 ) AI Song
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