#187 - Anthropic Agents, Mochi1, 3.4B data center, OpenAI's FAST image gen
Update: 2024-10-28
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Our 187th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, now with Jeremie co-hosting once again!
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Timestamps + Links:
- (00:00:00 ) Intro / Banter
- (00:03:07 ) Response to listener comments / corrections
- (00:05:13 ) Sponsor Read)
- Tools & Apps
- (00:06:22 ) Anthropic’s latest AI update can use a computer on its own
- (00:18:09 ) AI video startup Genmo launches Mochi 1, an open source rival to Runway, Kling, and others
- (00:20:37 ) Canva has a shiny new text-to-image generator
- (00:23:35 ) Canvas Beta brings Remix, Extend, and Magic Fill to Ideogram users
- (00:26:16 ) StabilityAI releases Stable Diffusion 3.5
- (00:28:27 ) Bringing Agentic Workflows into Inflection for Enterprise
- Applications & Business
- (00:32:35 ) Crusoe’s $3.4B joint venture to build AI data center campus with up to 100,000 GPUs
- (00:39:08 ) Anthropic reportedly in early talks to raise new funding on up to $40B valuation
- (00:45:47 ) Longtime policy researcher Miles Brundage leaves OpenAI
- (00:49:53 ) NVIDIA’s Blackwell GB200 AI Servers Ready For Mass Deployment In December
- (00:52:41 ) Foxconn building Nvidia superchip facility in Mexico, executives say
- (00:55:27 ) xAI, Elon Musk’s AI startup, launches an API
- Projects & Open Source
- (00:58:32 ) INTELLECT-1: The First Decentralized 10-Billion-Parameter AI Model Training
- (01:06:34 ) Meta FAIR Releases Eight New AI Research Artifacts—Models, Datasets, and Tools to Inspire the AI Community
- (01:10:02 ) Google DeepMind is making its AI text watermark open source
- Research & Advancements
- (01:13:21 ) OpenAI researchers develop new model that speeds up media generation by 50X
- (01:17:54 ) How much AI compute is out there, and who owns it?
- (01:25:28 ) Rewarding Progress: Scaling Automated Process Verifiers for LLM Reasoning
- (01:33:30 ) Inference Scaling for Long-Context Retrieval Augmented Generation
- Policy & Safety
- (01:41:50 ) Announcing our updated Responsible Scaling Policy
- (01:48:52 ) Anthropic is testing AI’s capacity for sabotage
- (01:56:30 ) OpenAI asked US to approve energy-guzzling 5GW data centers, report says
- (02:00:05 ) US Probes TSMC’s Dealings with Huawei
- (02:03:03 ) TikTok owner ByteDance taps TSMC to make its own AI GPUs to stop relying on Nvidia — the company has reportedly spent over $2 billion on Nvidia AI GPUs
- (02:06:37 ) Outro
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