Our 213nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Recorded on 06/21/2025

Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.

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In this episode:

• Midjourney launches its first AI video generation model, moving from text-to-image to video with a subscription model offering up to 21-second clips, highlighting the affordability and growing capabilities in AI video generation.


• Google's Gemini AI family updates include high-efficiency models for cost-effective workloads, and new enhancements in Google's search function now allow for voice interactions.


• The introduction of two new benchmarks, Live Code Bench Pro and Abstention Bench, aiming to test and improve the problem-solving and abstention capabilities of reasoning models, revealing current limitations.


• OpenAI wins a $200 million US defense contract to support various aspects of the Department of Defense, reflecting growing collaborations between tech companies and government for AI applications.

Timestamps + Links:

• (00:00:10 ) Intro / Banter


• (00:01:32 ) News Preview
  
  


• Tools & Apps

• (00:02:12 ) Midjourney launches its first AI video generation model, V1
  


• (00:05:52 ) Google’s Gemini AI family updated with stable 2.5 Pro, super-efficient 2.5 Flash-Lite
  


• (00:07:59 ) Google’s AI Mode can now have back-and-forth voice conversations
  


• (00:10:13 ) YouTube to Add Google’s Veo 3 to Shorts in Move That Could Turbocharge AI on the Video Platform
  

• Applications & Business

• (00:11:10 ) The ‘OpenAI Files’ will help you understand how Sam Altman’s company works
  


• (00:12:29 ) OpenAI drops Scale AI as a data provider following Meta deal
  


• (00:13:28 ) Amazon’s Zoox opens its first major robotaxi production facility
  

• Projects & Open Source

• (00:15:20 ) LiveCodeBench Pro: How Do Olympiad Medalists Judge LLMs in Competitive Programming?
  


• (00:19:45 ) AbstentionBench: Reasoning LLMs Fail on Unanswerable Questions
  


• (00:22:49 ) MiniMax-M1: Scaling Test-Time Compute Efficiently with Lightning Attention
  

• Research & Advancements

• (00:24:33 ) Scaling Laws of Motion Forecasting and Planning -- A Technical Report
  

• Policy & Safety

• (00:28:07 ) Universal Jailbreak Suffixes Are Strong Attention Hijackers
  


• (00:30:52 ) OpenAI found features in AI models that correspond to different ‘personas’
  


• (00:33:25 ) OpenAI wins $200 million U.S. defense contract
  

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