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#190 - AI scaling struggles, OpenAI Agents, Super Weights
1 hour 37 minutes Posted Nov 28, 2024 at 5:27 am.
) Intro / Banter
) News Preview
) Sponsor Break
) OpenAI, Google and Anthropic Are Struggling to Build More Advanced AI
) OpenAI Nears Launch of AI Agent Tool to Automate Tasks for Users
) Google drops new Gemini model and it goes straight to the top of the LLM leaderboard
)  Chinese AI startup takes aim at OpenAI's Sora with image-to-video tool launch
) Introducing the Forge Reasoning API Beta and Nous Chat: An Evolution in LLM Inference
) OpenAI Discusses AI Data Center That Could Cost $100 Billion
) Elon Musk's massive AI data center gets unlocked — xAI gets approved for 150MW of power, enabling all 100,000 GPUs to run concurrently
) Newest Google and Nvidia Chips Speed AI Training
) Ex-OpenAI CTO Murati’s New Team Takes Shape
) Amazon Discussing New Multibillion-Dollar Investment in Anthropic
) Google DeepMind open-sources AlphaFold 3, ushering in a new era for drug discovery and molecular biology
) Near plans to build world’s largest 1.4T parameter open-source AI model
) The Super Weight in Large Language Models
) Compositional Abilities Emerge Multiplicatively: Exploring Diffusion Models on a Synthetic Task
) Mixture-of-Transformers: A Sparse and Scalable Architecture for Multi-Modal Foundation Models
) Contextualized Evaluations: Taking the Guesswork Out of Language Model Evaluations
) The Code of Practice for general-purpose AI offers a unique opportunity for the EU
) Three Sketches of ASL-4 Safety Case Components
) U.S Department of Commerce finalizes $6.6 billion CHIPS Act funding for TSMC Fab 21 Arizona site , TSMC cannot make 2nm chips abroad now: MOEA
) OpenAI to present plans for U.S. AI strategy and an alliance to compete with China
) OpenAI loses another lead safety researcher, Lilian Weng
) Outro
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Our 190th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris. Note from Andrey: this one is coming out a bit later than planned, apologies! Next one will be coming out sooner. 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 pitch for a $100 billion data center and AI strategy plan outlines infrastructure and regulatory needs, emphasizing AI's foundational role akin to electricity. * Google's Gemini model challenges OpenAI's dominance, showing strong performance in chatbot arenas alongside generative AI advancements. * DeepMind's AlphaFold3 gets open-sourced for academic use, while new chips from NVIDIA and Google show significant performance boosts. * Anthropic and TSMC updates highlight strategic funding, regulation influences, and the complex dynamics of AI hardware and international policy.
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