#176 - BIG WEEK for OSS! SearchGPT, Lamma 3.1 405B, Mistral Large 2

#176 - BIG WEEK for OSS! SearchGPT, Lamma 3.1 405B, Mistral Large 2

Author: Skynet Today August 3, 2024 Duration: 1:25:45
Our 176th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! NOTE: apologies for this episode coming out about a week late, things got in the way of editing it... With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)   Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form. Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai (00:00:00) Intro Song (00:00:34) Intro Banter Tools & Apps (00:03:39) OpenAI announces SearchGPT, its AI-powered search engine (00:08:03) Google gives free Gemini users access to its faster, lighter 1.5 Flash AI model (00:09:10) X launches underwhelming Grok-powered ‘More About This Account’ feature (00:11:36) Kuaishou Launches Full Beta Testing for 'Kling AI' to Global Users, Elevates Model Capabilities (00:13:39) Adobe rolls out more generative AI features to Illustrator and Photoshop (00:14:25) Meta AI gets new ‘Imagine me’ selfie feature Projects & Open Source (00:15:19) Meta releases open-source AI model it says rivals OpenAI, Google tech (00:28:23) Mistral AI Unveils Mistral Large 2, Beats Llama 3.1 on Code and Math (00:34:00) Groq’s open-source Llama AI model tops leaderboard, outperforming GPT-4o and Claude in function calling (00:36:35) Apple shows off open AI prowess: new models outperform Mistral and Hugging Face offerings Applications & Business (00:40:25) Elon Musk wants Tesla to invest $5 billion into his newest startup, xAI — if shareholders approve (00:43:01) Nvidia said to be prepping Blackwell GPUs for Chinese market (00:46:28) Toronto AI company Cohere to indemnify customers who are sued for any copyright violations (00:49:09) AI startup Cohere raises US$500-million, valuing company at US$5.5-billion Research & Advancements (00:52:01) AI achieves silver-medal standard solving International Mathematical Olympiad problems (00:56:47) A Multimodal Automated Interpretability Agent (01:00:56) MINT-1T: Scaling Open-Source Multimodal Data by 10x: A Multimodal Dataset with One Trillion Tokens Policy & Safety (01:02:56) Improving Model Safety Behavior with Rule-Based Rewards (01:06:39) Senators demand OpenAI detail efforts to make its AI safe (01:10:59) OpenAI reassigns top AI safety executive Aleksandr Madry to role focused on AI reasoning (01:13:08) As new tech threatens jobs, Silicon Valley promotes no-strings cash aid (01:17:33) Democratic senators seek to reverse Supreme Court ruling that restricts federal agency power Synthetic Media & Art (01:20:58) Video game performers will go on strike over artificial intelligence concerns (01:23:03) Outro (01:23:58) AI Song 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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