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Our 136th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!\nWith guest host Daniel Bashir. Check out his AI interview podcast!\nRead out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/\nEmail us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai\nCheck out our sponsor, the SuperDataScience podcast. You can listen to SDS across all major podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts) plus there\u2019s a video version on YouTube.\nTimestamps + links:\n(00:00) Intro\xa0\n(01:15) SuperDataScience Ad\n(01:51) Response to listeners\nTools & Apps(02:47) Anthropic\u2019s Claude AI chatbot gets a paid plan for heavy users\n(04:36) Watch out, Midjourney! Ideogram launches AI image generator with impressive typography\n(06:37) Intuit launches generative AI\u2013powered digital assistant for small businesses and consumers\n(07:17) Zoom Is Jumping on the AI Chatbot Bandwagon\n\nApplications & Business(08:47) China lets Baidu, others launch ChatGPT-like bots to public, tech shares jump\n(11:23) Tencent releases AI model for businesses as competition in China heats up\n(12:00) Microsoft says it will take the heat if Copilot AI users get sued\n(14:52) How We Chose the TIME100 Most Influential People in AI\n(17:30) ChatGPT creator OpenAI is reportedly earning $80M a month\n(19:16) AI chip startup d-Matrix raises $110 mln with backing from Microsoft\n(21:00) ThetaRay nabs $57M for AI tools to ID and fight money laundering\n(22:18) Sapeon raises $46m for AI chips\n(23:20) Imbue raises $200M to build AI models that can \u2018robustly reason\u2019\n\nProjects & Open Source(25:48) Announcing the commercial relicensing and expansion of DINOv2, plus the introduction of FACET\n(27:02) UAE launches Arabic large language model in Gulf push into generative AI\n(29:23) New Open-Source \u2018Falcon\u2019 AI Language Model Overtakes Meta and Google\n\nResearch & Advancements(31:01) Qwen-VL: A Frontier Large Vision-Language Model with Versatile Abilities\n(33:57) RLAIF: Scaling Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback with AI Feedback\n(36:22) Perception, performance, and detectability of conversational artificial intelligence across 32 university courses\n(39:28) SyncDreamer: Generating Multiview-consistent Images from a Single-view Image\n\nPolicy & Safety(41:00) US curbs AI chip exports from Nvidia and AMD to some Middle East countries\n(42:55) China suspected of using AI on social media to sway US voters, Microsoft says\n(46:37) Trusting A.I.-written mushroom hunting guides sold on Amazon could get you killed. But like deadly fungi, identifying them is tricky\n(48:25) Ads for AI sex workers are flooding Instagram and TikTok\n(50:30) The UK releases key ambitions for global AI summit\n\nSynthetic Media & Art(51:55) AI Took the Stage at the World's Largest Arts Festival. Here's What Happened\n(54:12) Ghostwriter Returns With an A.I. Travis Scott Song, and Industry Allies\n(56:17) Artists sign open letter saying generative AI is good, actually\n(58:57) The latest canvas for Refik Anadol\u2019s AI-generated art? The new Sphere in Las Vegas\n\n(01:01:20) Outro