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#213 - Midjourney video, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, LiveCodeBench Pro

36 minutes Posted Jun 26, 2025 at 5:00 am.

) Intro / Banter

) News Preview

) Midjourney launches its first AI video generation model, V1

) Google’s Gemini AI family updated with stable 2.5 Pro, super-efficient 2.5 Flash-Lite

) Google’s AI Mode can now have back-and-forth voice conversations

) YouTube to Add Google’s Veo 3 to Shorts in Move That Could Turbocharge AI on the Video Platform

) The ‘OpenAI Files’ will help you understand how Sam Altman’s company works

) OpenAI drops Scale AI as a data provider following Meta deal

) Amazon’s Zoox opens its first major robotaxi production facility

) LiveCodeBench Pro: How Do Olympiad Medalists Judge LLMs in Competitive Programming?

) AbstentionBench: Reasoning LLMs Fail on Unanswerable Questions

) MiniMax-M1: Scaling Test-Time Compute Efficiently with Lightning Attention

) Scaling Laws of Motion Forecasting and Planning -A Technical Report

) Universal Jailbreak Suffixes Are Strong Attention Hijackers

) OpenAI found features in AI models that correspond to different ‘personas’

) OpenAI wins $200 million U.S. defense contract

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Our 213nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Recorded on 06/21/2025

Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.

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In this episode:

Midjourney launches its first AI video generation model, moving from text-to-image to video with a subscription model offering up to 21-second clips, highlighting the affordability and growing capabilities in AI video generation.

Google's Gemini AI family updates include high-efficiency models for cost-effective workloads, and new enhancements in Google's search function now allow for voice interactions.

The introduction of two new benchmarks, Live Code Bench Pro and Abstention Bench, aiming to test and improve the problem-solving and abstention capabilities of reasoning models, revealing current limitations.

OpenAI wins a $200 million US defense contract to support various aspects of the Department of Defense, reflecting growing collaborations between tech companies and government for AI applications.

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