#145 - OpenAIs Q*, Claude 2.1, Stable Video Diffusion, Starling-7B, Orca 2, international agreements

Published: Dec. 2, 2023, 8:47 p.m.

b"Our 145th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, this time around with guest co-hosts Kevin and Gavin from AI For Humans podcast\\nCheck out the AI For Humans episode on which Andrey and Jeremie guest co-host here.\\nAlso check 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.\\nRead out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/\\nEmail us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai\\nTimestamps + links:\\nTools & Apps\\n(06:00) OpenAI rival Anthropic makes its Claude chatbot even more useful\\n(12:33) Stability AI debuts Stable Video Diffusion models in research preview\\n(16:33) Generative Video Startup Pika Labs Launches Version 1.0, Raises $55 Million in Funding\\n(25:25) Screenshots show xAI\\u2019s chatbot Grok on X\\u2019s web app\\n(30:37) Amazon Introduces Q, an A.I. Chatbot for Companies\\n\\nApplications & Business\\n(34:28) Unpacking the hype around OpenAI\\u2019s rumored new Q* model\\n(47:37) NVIDIA Announces Financial Results for Third Quarter Fiscal 2024\\n(52:40) Nvidia Delays Rollout Of China-Focused AI Chip: Report\\n(56:31) Share sale set to test financial impact of OpenAI\\u2019s leadership turmoil\\n(58:55) Amazon and Salesforce Expand Partnership to Add New AI Capabilities\\n(59:55) AI21 takes Series C to $208 million with additional $53 million in funding\\n\\nProjects & Open Source\\n(01:03:15) Starling-7B: Increasing LLM Helpfulness & Harmlessness with RLAIF\\n(01:12:10) Defending your voice against deepfakes\\n\\nResearch & Advancements\\n(01:16:07) Orca 2: Teaching Small Language Models How to Reason\\n(01:22:16) New technique can accelerate language models by 300x\\n(01:23:35) DeepMind Says New Multi-Game AI Is a Step Toward More General Intelligence\\n(01:27:00) GAIA: A Benchmark for General AI Assistants\\n(01:30:45) Language Models are Super Mario: Absorbing Abilities from Homologous Models as a Free Lunch\\n\\nPolicy & Safety\\n(01:33:42) US, Britain, other countries ink agreement to make AI 'secure by design'\\n(01:36:07) Chinese GPU recycling factories have a workaround for the US government's newly imposed export rules \\u2014 modified NVIDIA RTX 4090 cards serve as great AI accelerators\\n(01:39:00) The EU AI Act needs Foundation Model Regulation\\nPutin to boost AI work in Russia to fight a Western monopoly he says is \\u2018unacceptable and dangerous\\u2019\\nInside U.S. Efforts to Untangle an A.I. Giant\\u2019s Ties to China\\n(01:41:55) More than half of Americans are worried about AI than excited\\n(01:46:10) State Dept prioritizes \\u2018AI-ready workforce\\u2019 in its first AI strategy\\nUS chip export ban is hurting China\\u2019s AI startups, not so much the giants yet\\n\\nSynthetic Media & Art\\n(01:48:18) Sarah Silverman Hits Stumbling Block In AI Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Against Meta\\n\\n(01:52:23) Outro"