Our 192nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news!

*and sometimes last last week's 

Note: this one was recorded on 12/04 , so the news is a bit outdated...

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In this episode:

• OpenAI launches a $200 ChatGPT Pro subscription with advanced capabilities, while Amazon unveils cost-effective Nova multimodal models at the re:Invent conference.


• Meta releases LLAMA 3.3 70B model, showing significant gains through post-training techniques, and Alibaba introduces QWQ, a reasoning model rivaling OpenAI's O1.


• Amazon collaborates with Anthropic on a massive AI supercomputer project, and Black Forest Labs eyes a $200 million funding round for growth in AI tools.


• New research from DeepMind's Genie 2 generates interactive 3D worlds from text and images, progressing AI's understanding of world models and interactive environments.

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Timestamps + Links:

• (00:00:00 ) Intro / Banter


• (00:02:34 ) Sponsor Break


• Tools & Apps
  
  
  
  • (00:04:19 ) OpenAI confirms new $200 monthly subscription, which includes its o1 reasoning model
  
  
  • (00:10:40 ) Amazon announces Nova, a new family of multimodal AI models
  
  
  • (00:17:13 ) ElevenLabs launches GenFM to turn user content into AI-powered podcasts
  
  
  • (00:20:21 ) Google’s new generative AI video model is now available
  
  
  
  


• Applications & Business
  
  
  
  • (00:23:56 ) Elon Musk files for injunction to halt OpenAI’s transition to a for-profit
  
  
  • (00:29:40 ) Amazon Is Building a Mega AI Supercomputer With Anthropic
  
  
  • (00:34:15 ) It Sounds an Awful Lot Like OpenAI Is Adding Ads to ChatGPT
  
  
  • (00:38:23 ) A16z in Talks to Lead $200 Million Round in Black Forest Labs, Startup Behind AI Images on Grok
  
  
  • (00:41:10 ) Bezos Backs AI Chipmaker Vying With Nvidia at $2.6 Billion Value
  
  
  
  


• Projects & Open Source
  
  
  
  • (00:45:25 ) Meta unveils a new, more efficient Llama model
  
  
  • (00:50:00 ) Alibaba releases an ‘open’ challenger to OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model
  
  
  • (00:55:21 ) DeMo: Decoupled Momentum Optimization
  
  
  • (00:57:01 ) PRIME Intellect Releases INTELLECT-1 (Instruct + Base): The First 10B Parameter Language Model Collaboratively Trained Across the Globe
  
  
  • (01:03:03 ) Tencent Launches HunyuanVideo, an Open-Source AI Video Model
  
  
  
  


• Research & Advancements
  
  
  
  • (01:09:23 ) DeepMind’s Genie 2 can generate interactive worlds that look like video games
  
  
  • (01:16:43 ) Language Models are Hidden Reasoners: Unlocking Latent Reasoning Capabilities via Self-Rewarding
  
  
  • (01:20:40 ) Densing Law of LLMs
  
  
  • (01:25:59 ) Monet: Mixture of Monosemantic Experts for Transformers
  
  
  
  


• Policy & Safety
  
  
  
  • (01:30:56 ) Commerce Strengthens Export Controls to Restrict China’s Capability to Produce Advanced Semiconductors for Military Applications
  
  
  • (01:37:33 ) China retaliates against latest US chip restrictions
  
  
  • (01:40:52 ) OpenAI Is Working With Anduril to Supply the US Military With AI
  
  
  • (01:43:24 ) On Targeted Manipulation and Deception when Optimizing LLMs for User Feedback
  
  
  • (01:47:52 ) AI Safety Researcher Quits OpenAI, Saying Its Trajectory Alarms Her
  
  
  • (01:51:52 ) Meta Claims AI Content Was Less than 1% of Election Misinformation
  
  
  
  


• (01:55:05 ) Outro