Show notes
Our 187th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, now with Jeremie co-hosting once again!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 [email protected] and/or [email protected]Timestamps + Links:(00:00:00) Intro / Banter(00:03:07) Response to listener comments / corrections(00:05:13) Sponsor Read)Tools & Apps(00:06:22) Anthropic’s latest AI update can use a computer on its own(00:18:09) AI video startup Genmo launches Mochi 1, an open source rival to Runway, Kling, and others(00:20:37) Canva has a shiny new text-to-image generator(00:23:35) Canvas Beta brings Remix, Extend, and Magic Fill to Ideogram users(00:26:16) StabilityAI releases Stable Diffusion 3.5 (00:28:27) Bringing Agentic Workflows into Inflection for EnterpriseApplications & Business(00:32:35) Crusoe’s $3.4B joint venture to build AI data center campus with up to 100,000 GPUs(00:39:08) Anthropic reportedly in early talks to raise new funding on up to $40B valuation(00:45:47) Longtime policy researcher Miles Brundage leaves OpenAI(00:49:53) NVIDIA’s Blackwell GB200 AI Servers Ready For Mass Deployment In December(00:52:41) Foxconn building Nvidia superchip facility in Mexico, executives say(00:55:27) xAI, Elon Musk’s AI startup, launches an APIProjects & Open Source(00:58:32) INTELLECT-1: The First Decentralized 10-Billion-Parameter AI Model Training(01:06:34) Meta FAIR Releases Eight New AI Research Artifacts—Models, Datasets, and Tools to Inspire the AI Community(01:10:02) Google DeepMind is making its AI text watermark open sourceResearch & Advancements(01:13:21) OpenAI researchers develop new model that speeds up media generation by 50X(01:17:54) How much AI compute is out there, and who owns it?(01:25:28) Rewarding Progress: Scaling Automated Process Verifiers for LLM Reasoning(01:33:30) Inference Scaling for Long-Context Retrieval Augmented GenerationPolicy & Safety(01:41:50) Announcing our updated Responsible Scaling Policy(01:48:52) Anthropic is testing AI’s capacity for sabotage(01:56:30) OpenAI asked US to approve energy-guzzling 5GW data centers, report says(02:00:05) US Probes TSMC’s Dealings with Huawei(02:03:03) TikTok owner ByteDance taps TSMC to make its own AI GPUs to stop relying on Nvidia — the company has reportedly spent over $2 billion on Nvidia AI GPUs(02:06:37) Outro
