#156 - OpenAI's Sora, Gemini 1.5, BioMistral, V-JEPA, AI Task Force, Fun!
Our 156th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Timestamps + links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- Tools & Apps
- (00:02:16) OpenAI introduces Sora, its text-to-video AI model
- (00:13:24) Gemini 1.5 is Google’s next-gen AI model — and it’s already almost ready
- (00:24:00) Groq AI model goes viral and rivals ChatGPT, challenges Elon Musk’s Grok
- (00:29:26) Introducing IP Adapters: Create Consistent Game Assets in Seconds
- (00:31:36) Report: OpenAI working on web search product
- (00:33:20) Adobe Acrobat adds generative AI to ‘easily chat with documents’
- Applications & Business
- (00:34:17) Sam Altman owns OpenAI's venture capital fund
- (00:38:17) Reddit Signs AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO
- (00:41:15) Nvidia reveals its Eos supercomputer for AI processing sporting 4,608 H100 GPUs
- (00:44:41) Google quietly launches internal AI model named 'Goose' to help employees write code faster, leaked documents show
- (00:46:24) Chinese start-up Moonshot AI raises US$1 billion in funding round led by Alibaba and VC HongShan amid strong interest for OpenAI-type firms
- (00:50:06) AI Computing Firm Lambda Raises $320 Million in Fresh Funding
- (00:51:01) Exclusive: Ex-Salesforce Co-CEO Bret Taylor and longtime Googler Clay Bavor raised $110 million to bring AI ‘agents’ to business
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
- (00:57:33) Meta unveils V-JEPA AI model that improves training by learning from video
- (01:04:51) Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Without Prompting
- (01:09:45) OS-Copilot: Towards Generalist Computer Agents with Self-Improvement
- (01:11:40) World Model on Million-Length Video And Language With RingAttention
- (01:15:00) Amazon AGI Team Say Their AI Is Showing "Emergent Abilities"
- Policy & Safety
- (01:17:15) Hackers for China, Russia and Others Used OpenAI Systems, Report Says
- (01:21:15) House leaders launch bipartisan artificial intelligence task force
- (01:25:08) Your fingerprints can be recreated from the sounds made when you swipe on a touchscreen — Chinese and US researchers show new side channel can reproduce fingerprints to enable attacks
- (01:27:05) States are introducing 50 AI-related bills per week
- (01:28:12) Air Canada found liable for chatbot's bad advice on plane tickets
- (01:30:26) The FTC warned about ‘quiet’ TOS changes for AI training. Here’s why it might not be enough
- Synthetic Media & Art
- Fun & Miscellaneous