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Our 181st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!With hosts Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris 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 [email protected] and/or [email protected]In this episode:- Google's AI advancements with Gemini 1.5 models and AI-generated avatars, along with Samsung's lithography progress. - Microsoft's Inflection usage caps for Pi, new AI inference services by Cerebrus Systems competing with Nvidia. - Biases in AI, prompt leak attacks, and transparency in models and distributed training optimizations, including the 'distro' optimizer. - AI regulation discussions including California’s SB1047, China's AI safety stance, and new export restrictions impacting Nvidia’s AI chips.Timestamps + Links:(00:00:00) Intro / Banter(00:03:08)Response to listener comments / correctionsTools & Apps(00:09:19) Google’s custom AI chatbots have arrived(00:12:52) Google releases three new experimental AI models(00:17:14) Google Gemini will let you create AI-generated people again(00:22:32) Five months after Microsoft hired its founders, Inflection adds usage caps to Pi(00:26:42:) Plaud takes a crack at a simpler AI pinApplications & Business(00:30:31) Cerebras Systems throws down gauntlet to Nvidia with launch of ‘world’s fastest’ AI inference service(00:41:06) Nvidia announces $50 billion stock buyback(00:46:24) OpenAI in talks to raise funding that would value it at more than $100 billion(00:50:44) OpenAI Aims to Release New AI Model, ‘Strawberry,’ in Fall(00:52:53) 3 Co-Founders Leave French AI Startup H Amid ‘Operational Differences’(00:57:29) Samsung to Adopt High-NA Lithography Alongside Intel, Ahead of TSMC(01:02:11) Unitree's $16,000 G1 could become the first mainstream humanoid robotProjects & Open Source(01:04:59) Meta leads open-source AI boom, Llama downloads surge 10x year-over-year(01:09:08) A_Preliminary_Report_on_DisTrO.Research & Advancements(01:13:56) Diffusion Models Are Real-Time Game Engines(01:23:18) LLM Defenses Are Not Robust to Multi-Turn Human Jailbreaks Yet(01:32:21) Interviewing AI researchers on automation of AI R&D(01:40:33) Anthropic releases AI model system prompts, winning praise for transparencyPolicy & Safety(01:47:12) U.S. AI Safety Institute Signs Agreements Regarding AI Safety Research, Testing and Evaluation With Anthropic and OpenAI(01:50:46) China’s Views on AI Safety Are Changing—Quickly(01:56:27) Poll: 7 in 10 Californians Support SB1047, Will Blame Governor Newsom for AI-Enabled Catastrophe if He Vetoes(02:01:31) Elon Musk voices support for California bill requiring safety tests on AI models(02:03:55) Chinese Engineers Reportedly Accessing NVIDIA’s High-End AI Chips Through Decentralized “GPU Rental Services”(02:08:25) U.S. gov't tightens China restrictions on supercomputer component salesSynthetic Media & Art(02:11:13) Actors Say AI Voice-Over Generator ElevenLabs Cloned Likenesses(02:14:06) Outro
