#183 - OpenAI o1, Adobe vid gen, Reflection 70B, DeepMind AlphaProteo

#183 - OpenAI o1, Adobe vid gen, Reflection 70B, DeepMind AlphaProteo

Author: Skynet Today September 26, 2024 Duration: 1:48:16
Our 183rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris. Note: once again, apologies from Andrey on this one coming out late. Starting with the next one we should be back to a regular(ish) release schedule. 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 In this episode: - OpenAI's O1 and O1 mini models boast advanced reasoning and longer responses.  - Adobe adds video generation to Firefly, Anthropic launches AI safety-focused Claude enterprise. - LLAMA3 8B excels with synthetic tokens, AI-generated ideas deemed more novel. - New AI forecasting bot competes with veteran human forecasters. Timestamps + Links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:02:38) Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps (00:04:00) OpenAI releases o1, its first model with ‘reasoning’ abilities (00:22:06) Adobe says video generation is coming to Firefly this year (00:25:27) Anthropic launches Claude Enterprise with more security, admin controls (00:27:55) Tell Replit's AI Agent Your App Idea, and It'll Code and Deploy It for You Applications & Business (00:31:42) OpenAI Fundraising Set to Vault Startup’s Valuation to $150 Billion (00:37:03) OpenAI Hits 1 Million Paid Users For Business Versions of ChatGPT (00:39:59) TSMC Arizona achieves production yields similar to those at its fabs in Taiwan, says report (00:45:14) Japan’s Sakana AI partners Nvidia for research, raises $100M Projects & Open Source (00:47:31) The fable of Reflection 70B (00:53:08) DataGemma: Using real-world data to address AI hallucinations (00:56:31) DeepSeek-V2.5 wins praise as the new, true open source AI model leader Research & Advancements (01:01:35) Google DeepMind Launches AlphaProteo , an AI Model for Generating Proteins  (01:08:27) Synthetic continued pretraining (01:16:55) A Large-Scale Human Study with 100+ NLP Researchers (01:23:55) Superhuman Automated Forecasting Policy & Safety (01:28:05) OpenAI o1 System Card (01:36:58) US roll outs new export controls aimed at restricting China’s chip industry (01:39:50) Employee Call for Governor Newsom to Sign SB 1047 (01:42:34) Taylor Swift says AI version of herself falsely endorsing Trump 'conjured up my fears' Synthetic Media & Art (01:44:42) YouTube is developing AI detection tools for music and faces, plus creator controls for AI training (01:45:08) 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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