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#189 - Chat.com, FrontierMath, Relaxed Transformers, Trump & AI
1 hour 42 minutes Posted Nov 17, 2024 at 11:16 pm.
) Intro / Banter
) News Preview
) Response to listener comments
) Sponsor Break
) OpenAI Introduces ‘Predicted Outputs’ Feature: Speeding Up GPT-4o by ~5x for Tasks like Editing Docs or Refactoring Code
) Anthropic’s Haiku 3.5 surprises experts with an “intelligence” price increase
) Introducing FLUX1.1 [pro] Ultra and Raw Modes
) X is testing a free version of Grok AI chatbot in select regions
) OpenAI acquired Chat.com
) Saudis Plan $100 Billion AI Powerhouse to Rival UAE Tech Hub
) Meta’s former hardware lead for Orion is joining OpenAI
) OpenAI Accidentally Leaked Its Upcoming o1 Model to Anyone With a Certain Web Address
) Nvidia Rides AI Wave to Pass Apple as World’s Largest Company
) ‘Unrestricted’ AI group Nous Research launches first chatbot — with guardrails
) FrontierMath: The Benchmark that Highlights AI’s Limits in Mathematics
) Hunyuan-Large: An Open-Source MoE Model with 52 Billion Activated Parameters by Tencent
) Applying “Golden Gate Claude” mechanistic interpretability techniques to protein language models.
) Relaxed Recursive Transformers: Effective Parameter Sharing with Layer-wise LoRA
) From Naptime to Big Sleep: Using Large Language Models To Catch Vulnerabilities In Real-World Code
) OpenAI reportedly developing new strategies to deal with AI improvement slowdown
)  What Donald Trump’s Win Means For AI
) Fab Whack-A-Mole: Chinese Companies are Evading U.S. Sanctions
) US fines GlobalFoundries for shipping chips to sanctioned Chinese firm
) Anthropic teams up with Palantir and AWS to sell its AI to defense customers
) Outro
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Our 189th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris. Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected]
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In this episode:
* OpenAI's acquisition of chat.com and internal shifts, including hardware lead hire and hardware model leaks, signal significant strategy pivots and challenges with model scaling and security. * Saudi Arabia plans a $100 billion AI initiative aiming to rival UAE's tech hub, highlighting the region's escalating AI investments. * U.S. penalties on GlobalFoundries for violating sanctions against SMIC underline ongoing challenges in enforcing AI-chip export controls. * Anthropic collaborates with Palantir and AWS to integrate CLAWD into defense environments, marking a significant policy shift for the company.
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