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#193 - Sora release, Gemini 2, OpenAI's AGI Rule, US AI Czar

2 hour 5 minutes Posted Dec 23, 2024 at 6:08 pm.

) Intro / Banter

) News Preview

) Response to listener comments

) Sponsor Break

) OpenAI has finally released Sora

) Google Reveals Gemini 2, AI Agents, and a Prototype Personal Assistant

) ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode adding video and screen sharing input (plus a Santa mode)

) Microsoft’s Copilot can browse the web with you using AI ‘Vision’

) Musk’s xAI has launched Grok image generation model

) Cognition Labs’ AI Software Engineer Devin Launched for Subscribers

) Apple launches its ChatGPT integration with Siri

) Reddit’s New AI Search Tool Helps You Find Reddit Answers Without Google

) OpenAI Aiming to Eliminate Microsoft AGI Rule to Boost Future Investment

) GM halts funding of robotaxi development by Cruise

) Largest AI data centre in the world to be built in northwest Alberta

) Meta announces 4 million sq ft, 2GW Louisiana data center campus

) Google’s future data centers will be built next to solar and wind farms

) Google DeepMind Just Released PaliGemma 2: A New Family of Open-Weight Vision Language Models (3B, 10B and 28B)

) Training Large Language Models to Reason in a Continuous Latent Space

) An Evolved Universal Transformer Memory

) APOLLO: SGD-like Memory, AdamW-level Performance

) Clio: A system for privacy-preserving insights into real-world AI use

) Character.AI steps up teen safety after bots allegedly caused suicide, self-harm

) What Trump’s New AI and Crypto Czar David Sacks Means For the Tech Industry

) Frontier AI systems have surpassed the self-replicating red line

) Chip war: China launches antitrust probe into US semiconductor giant Nvidia in sign of escalation

) White House Creating Task Force on AI Datacenter Infrastructure

) US clears export of advanced AI chips to UAE under Microsoft deal, Axios says

) Outro

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Our 193rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news!*and sometimes last last week's

Note: this one was recorded on 12/13, so the news is a bit outdated... will get things back on track soon!

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