#192 - ChatGPT Pro, Amazon Nova, GenFM, Llama 3.3, Genie 2Our 192nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news!
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Note: this one was recorded on 12/04 , so the news is a bit outdated...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
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Amazon announces Nova, a new family of multimodal AI models
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ElevenLabs launches GenFM to turn user content into AI-powered podcasts
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Google’s new generative AI video model is now available
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• Applications & Business
• (00:23:56)
Elon Musk files for injunction to halt OpenAI’s transition to a for-profit
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Amazon Is Building a Mega AI Supercomputer With Anthropic
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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
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• Projects & Open Source
• (00:45:25)
Meta unveils a new, more efficient Llama model
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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
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• 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
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• 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
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• (01:55:05) Outro
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