#194 - Gemini Reasoning, Veo 2, Meta vs OpenAI, Fake Alignment

#194 - Gemini Reasoning, Veo 2, Meta vs OpenAI, Fake Alignment

Author: Skynet Today December 31, 2024 Duration: 1:59:55
Our 194th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news! *and sometimes last last week's  Recorded on 12/19/2024 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris. Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/. Sponsors: The Generator - An interdisciplinary AI lab empowering innovators from all fields to bring visionary ideas to life by harnessing the capabilities of artificial intelligence. In this episode: - Google dominates AI news with multiple announcements, including a reasoning model and Project Mariner, an AI browsing agent.  - Anthropic explores alignment faking in LLMs, revealing models may show deceptive compliance under certain conditions.  - Apple observes a trend towards smaller but more efficient language models, bucking previous trends of scaling larger parameter counts.  - Legal drama unfolds as Meta backs Elon Musk's opposition to OpenAI's profit status change, raising concerns about competitive fairness. If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form. Timestamps + Links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:02:14) Response to listener comments (00:08:52) News Preview (00:10:01) Sponsor Break Tools & Apps (00:10:55) Google releases its own ‘reasoning’ AI model (00:16:52) Google Gemini can now do more in-depth research (00:21:58) Google DeepMind unveils a new video model to rival Sora (00:27:50) Pika Labs releases AI video generator 2.0 with new features (00:29:51) Google unveils Project Mariner: AI agents to use the web for you (00:34:33) X gains a faster Grok model and a new ‘Grok button’ Applications & Business (00:36:11) AI GPU clusters with one million GPUs are planned for 2027 — Broadcom says three AI supercomputers are in the works (00:43:02) Meta asks the government to block OpenAI’s switch to a for-profit (00:49:36) OpenAI says Elon Musk wanted it to be for-profit in 2017 (00:56:04)  EQTY Lab, Intel, and NVIDIA Unveil 'Verifiable Compute,' A Solution to Secure Trusted AI (00:59:53) Liquid AI just raised $250M to develop a more efficient type of AI model (01:03:19) Hundreds of OpenAI’s current and ex-employees are about to get a huge payday by cashing out up to $10 million each in a private stock sale Projects & Open Source (01:07:45) Phi-4 Technical Report (01:13:04) DeepSeek-VL2: Mixture-of-Experts Vision-Language Models for Advanced Multimodal Understanding (01:15:23) Meta AI Releases Apollo: A New Family of Video-LMMs Large Multimodal Models for Video Understanding Research & Advancements (01:16:34) Alignment faking in large language models (01:28:39) Meta AI Introduces Byte Latent Transformer (BLT): A Tokenizer-Free Model That Scales Efficiently (01:36:49) Frontier language models have become much smaller (01:42:28) The Complexity Dynamics of Grokking Policy & Safety (01:46:49) Homeland Security gets its very own generative AI chatbot (01:49:16) Pre-Deployment Evaluation of OpenAI’s o1 Model (01:51:35) Pricing for key chipmaking material hits 13-year high following (01:53:46) Chinese export restrictions — China's restrictions on Gallium exports hit hard Synthetic Media & Art Meta debuts a tool for watermarking AI-generated videos (01:55:27) 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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