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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