Last Week in AI
Last Week in AI
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#201 - GPT 4.5, Sonnet 3.7, Grok 3, Phi 4
58 minutes Posted Mar 5, 2025 at 4:29 am.
) Intro / Banter
) News Preview
) OpenAI announces GPT-4.5, warns it’s not a frontier AI model
) Anthropic launches a new AI model that ‘thinks’ as long as you want
) New Grok 3 release tops LLM leaderboards
) Sesame is the first voice assistant I’ve ever wanted to talk to more than once
) Google launches a free AI coding assistant with very high usage caps
) Rabbit shows off the AI agent it should have launched with
) Mistral’s Le Chat tops 1M downloads in just 14 days
) OpenAI Tops 400 Million Users Despite DeepSeek’s Emergence
) Google’s new AI video model Veo 2 will cost 50 cents per second
) HP is buying Humane and shutting down the AI Pin
) Microsoft launches next-gen Phi AI models.
) OpenAI introduces SWE-Lancer: A Benchmark for Evaluating Model Performance on Real-World Freelance Software Engineering Work
) SWE-Bench+: Enhanced Coding Benchmark for LLMs
) Towards an AI co-scientist
) Magma: A Foundation Model for Multimodal AI Agents
) Demonstrating specification gaming in reasoning models
) Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs
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Our 201st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Recorded on 03/02/2025
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In this episode:
- The release of GPT-4.5 from OpenAI, Anthropic's Claude 3.7, and Grok 3 from XAI, comparing their features, costs, and capabilities. 
- Discussion on new tools and applications including Sesame's new voice assistant and Google's AI coding assistant, Gemini Code Assist, highlighting their unique benefits. 
- OpenAI's continued user growth despite competition, pricing models for Google's text-to-video platform, and HP acquiring and shutting down Humane's AI pin. 
- Insights into new research on alignment and specification gaming in LLMs, including papers on fine-tuning causing broad misalignment and Google's multi-agent system for scientific collaboration.
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