#215 - Runway games, Meta Superintelligence, ERNIE 4.5, Adaptive Tree Search
Update: 2025-07-08
Description
Our 215th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Recorded on 07/04/2025
Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.
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In this episode:
- Cloudflare's new AI data scraper blocking feature, its potential implications, and technical challenges
- Meta's aggressive recruitment for its Super Intelligence Labs division is covered, highlighting key hires from OpenAI and other leaders in the field
- Anthropic loses significant talent to Cursor, with details on their new economic futures program focusing on AI's impact on the labor market
- Notable open-source AI model releases from Baidu and Tencent are also discussed, including their performance metrics and potential applications.
Timestamps + Links:
Tools & Apps
- (00:02:55 ) Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers
- (00:05:44 ) Runway is going to let people generate video games with AI
- (00:11:24 ) Google embraces AI in the classroom with new Gemini tools for educators, chatbots for students, and more
- (00:16:23 ) No one likes meetings. They’re sending their AI note takers instead.
- (00:18:08 ) Google launches Doppl, a new app that lets you visualize how an outfit might look on you
- (00:19:14 ) Google's Imagen 4 text-to-image model promises 'significantly improved' boring images
Applications & Business
- (00:22:18 ) Mark Zuckerberg announces his AI ‘superintelligence’ super-group
- (00:29:35 ) Anthropic Revenue Hits $4 Billion Annual Pace as Competition With Cursor Intensifies
- (00:35:10 ) As job losses loom, Anthropic launches program to track AI’s economic fallout
- (00:38:04 ) OpenAI says it has no plan to use Google's in-house chip
- (00:41:08 ) Nvidia stakes new startup that flips script on data center power
- (00:44:11 ) TSMC Arizona Chips Are Reportedly Being Flown Back to Taiwan For Packaging; U.S. Semiconductor Supply Chain Still Remains Dependent on Taiwan
Projects & Open Source
- (00:46:57 ) Baidu releases open source model family ERNIE 4.5
- (00:51:55 ) Tencent Open Sources Hunyuan-A13B: A 13B Active Parameter MoE Model with Dual-Mode Reasoning and 256K Context
- (00:57:09 ) Together AI Releases DeepSWE: A Fully Open-Source RL-Trained Coding Agent Based on Qwen3-32B and Achieves 59% on SWEBench
- (01:00:11 ) GLM-4.1V-Thinking: Towards Versatile Multimodal Reasoning with Scalable Reinforcement Learning
- (01:04:10 ) DiffuCoder: Understanding and Improving Masked Diffusion Models for Code Generation
Research & Advancements
- (01:06:21 ) Wider or Deeper? Scaling LLM Inference-Time Compute with Adaptive Branching Tree Search
- (01:13:07 ) The Automated LLM Speedrunning Benchmark: Reproducing NanoGPT Improvements
- (01:18:04 ) Claude 4 Opus and Sonnet reach 50%-time-horizon point estimates of about 80 and 65 minutes, respectively
- (01:21:37 ) Performance Prediction for Large Systems via Text-to-Text Regression
- (01:25:38 ) Does Math Reasoning Improve General LLM Capabilities? Understanding Transferability of LLM Reasoning
- (01:26:33 ) Correlated Errors in Large Language Models
Policy & Safety
- (01:29:04 ) Forecasting Biosecurity Risks from LLMs
- (01:36:06 ) AI Task Length Horizons in Offensive Cybersecurity
- (01:42:30 ) Inside Tech's Risky Gamble to Kill State AI Regulations for a Decade
- (01:52:56 ) Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features
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