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#199 - OpenAI's 03-mini, Gemini Thinking, Deep Research, s1
1 hour 37 minutes Posted Feb 12, 2025 at 7:47 am.
) Intro / Banter
) News Preview
) Response to listener comments
) OpenAI now reveals more of its o3-mini model’s thought process
) Google’s Gemini app adds access to ‘thinking’ AI models
) OpenAI Unveils A.I. Tool That Can Do Research Online
) Mistral releases its AI assistant on iOS and Android
) AI music startup Riffusion launches its service in public beta
) Pikadditions by Pika Labs lets users seamlessly insert objects into videos
) Softbank set to invest $40 billion in OpenAI at $260 billion valuation, sources say
) UAE to invest billions in France AI data centre
) Report: Ilya Sutskever’s startup in talks to fundraise at roughly $20B valuation
) ASML to Ship First Second-Gen High-NA EUV Machine in the Coming Months, Aiming for 2026 Production
) NVIDIA’s GB200 NVL 72 Shipments Not Under Threat From DeepSeek As Hyperscalers Maintain CapEx; Meanwhile, Trump Tariffs Play Havoc With TSMC’s Pricing Strategy
) The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) Releases Tülu 3 405B: Scaling Open-Weight...
) SmolLM2: When Smol Goes Big -Data-Centric Training of a Small Language Model
) PhD Knowledge Not Required: A Reasoning Challenge for Large Language Models
) OpenEuroLLM: Europe’s New Initiative for Open-Source AI Development
) LIMO: Less is More for Reasoning
) s1: Simple test-time scaling
) ZebraLogic: On the Scaling Limits of LLMs for Logical Reasoning
) Streaming DiLoCo with overlapping communication: Towards a Distributed Free Lunch
) US sets AI safety aside in favor of 'AI dominance'
) Almost Surely Safe Alignment of Large Language Models at Inference-Time
) Constitutional Classifiers: Defending against Universal Jailbreaks across Thousands of Hours of Red Teaming
) Anthropic offers $20,000 to whoever can jailbreak its new AI safety system
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Our 199th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Recorded on 02/09/2025
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In this episode:
- OpenAI's deep research feature capability launched, allowing models to generate detailed reports after prolonged inference periods, competing directly with Google's Gemini 2.0 reasoning models. 
- France and UAE jointly announce plans to build a massive AI data center in France, aiming to become a competitive player within the AI infrastructure landscape. 
- Mistral introduces a mobile app, broadening its consumer AI lineup amidst market skepticism about its ability to compete against larger firms like OpenAI and Google. 
- Anthropic unveils 'Constitutional Classifiers,' a method showing strong defenses against universal jailbreaks; they also launched a $20K challenge to find weaknesses.
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