Our 190th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news!

*and sometimes last last week's

Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.



Note from Andrey: this one is coming out a bit later than planned, apologies! Next one will be coming out sooner.

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In this episode:

* OpenAI's pitch for a $100 billion data center and AI strategy plan outlines infrastructure and regulatory needs, emphasizing AI's foundational role akin to electricity. 

* Google's Gemini model challenges OpenAI's dominance, showing strong performance in chatbot arenas alongside generative AI advancements. 

* DeepMind's AlphaFold3 gets open-sourced for academic use, while new chips from NVIDIA and Google show significant performance boosts. 

* Anthropic and TSMC updates highlight strategic funding, regulation influences, and the complex dynamics of AI hardware and international policy.

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Timestamps + Links:

• (00:00:00 ) Intro / Banter


• (00:02:44 ) News Preview


• (00:03:34 ) Sponsor Break


• Tools & Apps
  
  
  
  • (00:04:36 ) OpenAI, Google and Anthropic Are Struggling to Build More Advanced AI
  
  
  • (00:16:22 ) OpenAI Nears Launch of AI Agent Tool to Automate Tasks for Users
  
  
  • (00:19:14 ) Google drops new Gemini model and it goes straight to the top of the LLM leaderboard
  
  
  • (00:19:14 )  Chinese AI startup takes aim at OpenAI's Sora with image-to-video tool launch
  
  
  • (00:20:04 ) Introducing the Forge Reasoning API Beta and Nous Chat: An Evolution in LLM Inference
  
  
  
  


• Applications & Business
  
  
  
  • (00:23:47 ) OpenAI Discusses AI Data Center That Could Cost $100 Billion
  
  
  • (00:26:48 ) Elon Musk's massive AI data center gets unlocked — xAI gets approved for 150MW of power, enabling all 100,000 GPUs to run concurrently
  
  
  • (00:29:34 ) Newest Google and Nvidia Chips Speed AI Training
  
  
  • (00:34:45 ) Ex-OpenAI CTO Murati’s New Team Takes Shape
  
  
  • (00:34:45 ) Amazon Discussing New Multibillion-Dollar Investment in Anthropic
  
  
  
  


• Projects & Open Source
  
  
  
  • (00:37:52 ) Google DeepMind open-sources AlphaFold 3, ushering in a new era for drug discovery and molecular biology
  
  
  • (00:41:29 ) Near plans to build world’s largest 1.4T parameter open-source AI model
  
  
  
  


• Research & Advancements
  
  
  
  • (00:45:38 ) The Super Weight in Large Language Models
  
  
  • (00:55:42 ) Compositional Abilities Emerge Multiplicatively: Exploring Diffusion Models on a Synthetic Task
  
  
  • (01:03:47 ) Mixture-of-Transformers: A Sparse and Scalable Architecture for Multi-Modal Foundation Models
  
  
  • (01:08:14 ) Contextualized Evaluations: Taking the Guesswork Out of Language Model Evaluations
  
  
  
  


• Policy & Safety
  
  
  
  • (01:11:14 ) The Code of Practice for general-purpose AI offers a unique opportunity for the EU
  
  
  • (01:15:38 ) Three Sketches of ASL-4 Safety Case Components
  
  
  • (01:23:05 ) U.S Department of Commerce finalizes $6.6 billion CHIPS Act funding for TSMC Fab 21 Arizona site , TSMC cannot make 2nm chips abroad now: MOEA
  
  
  • (01:26:21 ) OpenAI to present plans for U.S. AI strategy and an alliance to compete with China
  
  
  • (01:30:42 ) OpenAI loses another lead safety researcher, Lilian Weng
  
  
  
  


• (01:33:00 ) Outro