#160 - Nvidia's new GPU, Microsoft pays for Inflection AI, Grok-1 open sourced, Jeremie's Action Plan

#160 - Nvidia's new GPU, Microsoft pays for Inflection AI, Grok-1 open sourced, Jeremie's Action Plan

Author: Skynet Today March 24, 2024 Duration: 1:39:34
Our 160th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai and/or hello@gladstone.ai Timestamps + links: Tools & Apps (00:01:36) Adobe Substance 3D’s AI features can turn text into backgrounds and textures (00:05:04) OpenAI’s chatbot store is filling up with spam (00:11:02) Apple’s AI ambitions could include Google or OpenAI Applications & Business (00:13:31) Nvidia reveals Blackwell B200 GPU, the ‘world’s most powerful chip’ for AI (00:19:34) Microsoft to Pay Inflection AI $650 Million After Scooping Up Most of Staff (00:24:33) Figure 01: Conversations & Actions in Humanoid Robotics! (00:28:07) OpenAI's GPT-4.5 Turbo leaked on search engines and could launch in June (00:30:32) Abu Dhabi in talks to invest in OpenAI chip venture (00:33:43) Nvidia Announces GR00T, a Foundation Model For Humanoids Projects & Open Source (00:35:38) Open Release of Grok-1 (00:41:25) Stability AI brings a new dimension to video with Stable Video 3D (00:44:23) Colossal-AI Team Introduces Open-Sora: An Open-Source Library for Video Generation (00:45:43) Evolutionary Optimization of Model Merging Recipes Research & Advancements (00:46:52) DiPaCo: Distributed Path Composition (00:53:58) MM1: Methods, Analysis & Insights from Multimodal LLM Pre-training (00:59:37) PERL: Parameter Efficient Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (01:01:55) VideoAgent: Long-form Video Understanding with Large Language Model as Agent (01:05:38) MusicHiFi: Fast High-Fidelity Stereo Vocoding Policy & Safety (01:06:44) The WMDP Benchmark: Measuring and Reducing Malicious Use With Unlearning (01:12:43) Exclusive: U.S. Must Move ‘Decisively’ to Avert ‘Extinction-Level’ Threat From AI, Government-Commissioned Report Says (01:18:18) Evaluating Frontier Models for Dangerous Capabilities (01:22:55) Chinese and western scientists identify ‘red lines’ on AI risks (01:26:11) Google fined $272M by French government over AI use of news content (01:27:58) Elvis Act Signed Into Tennessee Law to Protect Musicians From AI Deepfakes Synthetic Media & Art (01:30:17) AI-Generated Science (01:35:35) YouTube adds new AI-generated content labeling tool Fun! (01:37:29) 10 of My Most Popular Text-To-Image Series (+Prompts) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Keeping up with artificial intelligence can feel like drinking from a firehose. Every week brings a new breakthrough, a surprising application, or an urgent ethical debate. Last Week in AI, from the team at Skynet Today, is here to turn that torrent into a clear, digestible stream. Instead of getting lost in the noise, you'll get a thoughtful rundown of the developments that actually have impact, explained without unnecessary jargon. Each episode feels like a conversation with well-informed friends who have done the homework for you, sifting through research papers, product launches, and industry announcements to highlight what's substantive. You'll hear nuanced discussions that go beyond the headlines, considering the real-world implications of new models, policy shifts, and corporate moves in the tech landscape. This podcast doesn't just tell you what happened; it provides context on why it matters for developers, businesses, and society at large. It’s an efficient way to stay informed and critically engaged with a field that is reshaping our world at a breathtaking pace. Tune in for a consistently insightful analysis that makes the complex world of AI feel accessible and relevant, week after week.
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Duration: 1:27:07
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#227 - Jeremie is back! DeepSeek 3.2, TPUs, Nested Learning [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:34:40
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Duration: 1:11:11
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#225 - GPT 5.1, Kimi K2 Thinking, Remote Labor Index [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:18:14
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#224 - OpenAI is for-profit! Cursor 2, Minimax M2, Udio copyright [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

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#223 - Haiku 4.5, OpenAI DevDay, Claude Skills, Scaling RL, SB 243 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:11:45
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#222 - Sora 2, Sonnet 4.5, Vibes, Thinking Machines [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:37:16
Our 222st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 10/03/2025 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and co-hosted by Jon Krohn Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastwee…