#149 - Reflecting on 2023, Midjourney v6, Anthropic Revenue, Unified-IO 2, NY Times sues OpenAI

#149 - Reflecting on 2023, Midjourney v6, Anthropic Revenue, Unified-IO 2, NY Times sues OpenAI

Author: Skynet Today January 8, 2024 Duration: 1:24:10
Our 149th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Check out our sponsor, the SuperDataScience podcast. You can listen to SDS across all major podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts) plus there’s a video version on YouTube. Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai Some recommended resources for keeping up with AI research: Davis Summarizes Papers AK’s Substack Deep Learning Weekly NLP News Timestamps + links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:08:13) Reflections on 2023 Tools & Apps (00:26:32) Midjourney Version 6: Look Ma, Text! (00:32:09) Baidu's ChatGPT-like Ernie Bot has more than 100 mln users (00:36:05) Android Auto will have Google Assistant summarize your messages with AI (00:37:00) Some of the Samsung Galaxy S24's key AI features just leaked (00:38:33) Microsoft quietly launches dedicated Copilot app for Android Applications & Business (00:39:00) Anthropic forecasts more than $850 mln in annualized revenue rate by 2024-end (00:42:25) Anthropic, the OpenAI rival, is in talks to raise $750 million in funding at an $18.4 billion valuation (00:44:10) OpenAI annualized revenue tops $1.6 billion (00:44:46) Nvidia releases slower, less powerful AI chip for China (00:47:30) SMIC is reportedly working on 3nm process technology despite US sanctions (00:50:16) Huawei Files A Patent That Enhances Wafer Alignment And Efficiency, Hinting At The Company’s Self-Built Fabrication Plants (00:52:36) ASML ships first "High NA" lithography system to Intel -statement Research & Advancements (00:54:45) Unified-IO 2: Scaling Autoregressive Multimodal Models with Vision, Language, Audio, and Action (00:59:11) Task Contamination: Language Models May Not Be Few-Shot Anymore (01:02:49) Evaluating Language-Model Agents on Realistic Autonomous Tasks (01:08:14) TinyGPT-V: Efficient Multimodal Large Language Model via Small Backbones (01:09:47) Improving Text Embeddings with Large Language Models (01:10:41) DeWave: Discrete EEG Waves Encoding for Brain Dynamics to Text Translation Policy & Safety (01:13:23) The Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over A.I. Use of Copyrighted Work (01:18:12) Congress warns science agency over AI grant to tech-linked think tank (01:21:48) Elon Musk’s xAI Jumps on the Bandwagon of Rich Startups 'Benefiting Humanity' (01:23:40) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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