Our 197th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Recorded on 01/17/2024

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In this episode:

 - Google and Mistral sign deals with AP and AFP, respectively, to deliver up-to-date news through their AI platforms.

 - ChatGPT introduces a tasks feature for reminders and to-dos, positioning itself more as a personal assistant.

 - Synthesia raises $180 million to enhance its AI video platform for generating videos of human avatars.

 - New U.S. guidelines restrict exporting AI chips to various countries, impacting Nvidia and other tech firms.

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Timestamps + Links:

• (00:00:00 ) Intro / Banter


• (00:04:29 ) News Preview


• (00:05:09 ) Response to listener comments


• (00:05:58 ) Sponsor Break


• Tools & Apps
  
  
  
  • (00:07:01 ) Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free — but raising the price of Workspace
  
  
  • (00:07:52 ) Microsoft relaunches Copilot for business with free AI chat and pay-as-you-go agents
  
  
  • (00:12:36 ) Google signs deal with AP to deliver up-to-date news through its Gemini AI chatbot
  
  
  • (00:18:08 ) Mistral signs deal with AFP to offer up-to-date answers in Le Chat
  
  
  • (00:18:45 ) ChatGPT can now handle reminders and to-dos
  
  
  
  


• Applications & Business
  
  
  
  • (00:22:53 ) Palmer Luckey’s AI Defense Company Anduril Is Building a $1 Billion Plant in Ohio
  
  
  • (00:28:36 ) OpenAI is bankrolling Axios’ expansion into four new markets
  
  
  • (00:29:39 ) AI researcher François Chollet founds a new AI lab focused on AGI
  
  
  • (00:32:18 ) Nvidia-backed AI video platform Synthesia doubles valuation to $2.1 billion
  
  
  • (00:34:46 ) Anysphere Raises $105M in Series B
  
  
  • (00:40:14 ) Harvey Valuation of 3 Billion
  
  
  
  


• Projects & Open Source
  
  
  
  • (00:46:12 ) MiniMax-01: Scaling Foundation Models with Lightning Attention
  
  
  • (00:51:16 ) MinMo: A Multimodal Large Language Model with Approximately 8B Parameters for Seamless Voice Interaction
  
  
  • (00:53:01 ) HALoGEN: Fantastic LLM Hallucinations and Where to Find Them
  
  
  
  


• Research & Advancements
  
  
  
  • (00:57:03 ) Titans: Learning to Memorize at Test Time
  
  
  • (01:04:38 ) Transformer2: Self-adaptive LLMs
  
  
  • (01:08:15 ) Inference-Time Scaling for Diffusion Models beyond Scaling Denoising Steps
  
  
  
  


• Policy & Safety
  
  
  
  • (01:11:23 ) Biden administration proposes sweeping new restrictions on exporting AI chips
  
  
  • (01:13:56 ) Biden orders Energy, Defense departments to lease sites for AI data centers, clean energy generation
  
  
  • (01:15:00 ) OpenAI presents its preferred version of AI regulation in a new ‘blueprint’
  
  
  • (01:16:15 ) More teens report using ChatGPT for schoolwork, despite the tech’s faults
  
  
  
  


• Synthetic Media & Art
  
  
  
  • (01:17:55 ) In AI copyright case, Zuckerberg turns to YouTube for his defense
  
  
  
  


• (01:19:53 ) Outro