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#197 - AI in Gmail+Docs, MiniMax-01, Titans, Transformer^2
1 hour 23 minutes Posted Jan 20, 2025 at 10:50 pm.
) Intro / Banter
) News Preview
) Response to listener comments
) Sponsor Break
) Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free — but raising the price of Workspace
) Microsoft relaunches Copilot for business with free AI chat and pay-as-you-go agents
) Google signs deal with AP to deliver up-to-date news through its Gemini AI chatbot
) Mistral signs deal with AFP to offer up-to-date answers in Le Chat
) ChatGPT can now handle reminders and to-dos
) Palmer Luckey’s AI Defense Company Anduril Is Building a $1 Billion Plant in Ohio
) OpenAI is bankrolling Axios’ expansion into four new markets
) AI researcher François Chollet founds a new AI lab focused on AGI
) Nvidia-backed AI video platform Synthesia doubles valuation to $2.1 billion
) Anysphere Raises $105M in Series B
) Harvey Valuation of 3 Billion
) MiniMax-01: Scaling Foundation Models with Lightning Attention
) MinMo: A Multimodal Large Language Model with Approximately 8B Parameters for Seamless Voice Interaction
) HALoGEN: Fantastic LLM Hallucinations and Where to Find Them
) Titans: Learning to Memorize at Test Time
) Transformer2: Self-adaptive LLMs
) Inference-Time Scaling for Diffusion Models beyond Scaling Denoising Steps
) Biden administration proposes sweeping new restrictions on exporting AI chips
) Biden orders Energy, Defense departments to lease sites for AI data centers, clean energy generation
) OpenAI presents its preferred version of AI regulation in a new ‘blueprint’
) More teens report using ChatGPT for schoolwork, despite the tech’s faults
) In AI copyright case, Zuckerberg turns to YouTube for his defense
) Outro
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Our 197th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Recorded on 01/17/2024
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In this episode:
 - Google and Mistral sign deals with AP and AFP, respectively, to deliver up-to-date news through their AI platforms.
 - ChatGPT introduces a tasks feature for reminders and to-dos, positioning itself more as a personal assistant.
 - Synthesia raises $180 million to enhance its AI video platform for generating videos of human avatars.
 - New U.S. guidelines restrict exporting AI chips to various countries, impacting Nvidia and other tech firms.
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