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Our 160th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!\nRead out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/\nEmail us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai and/or\xa0hello@gladstone.ai\nTimestamps + links:\nTools & Apps\n(00:01:36) Adobe Substance 3D\u2019s AI features can turn text into backgrounds and textures\n(00:05:04) OpenAI\u2019s chatbot store is filling up with spam\n(00:11:02) Apple\u2019s AI ambitions could include Google or OpenAI\n\nApplications & Business\n(00:13:31) Nvidia reveals Blackwell B200 GPU, the \u2018world\u2019s most powerful chip\u2019 for AI\n(00:19:34) Microsoft to Pay Inflection AI $650 Million After Scooping Up Most of Staff\n(00:24:33) Figure 01: Conversations & Actions in Humanoid Robotics!\n(00:28:07) OpenAI's GPT-4.5 Turbo leaked on search engines and could launch in June\n(00:30:32) Abu Dhabi in talks to invest in OpenAI chip venture\n(00:33:43) Nvidia Announces GR00T, a Foundation Model For Humanoids\n\nProjects & Open Source\n(00:35:38) Open Release of Grok-1\n(00:41:25) Stability AI brings a new dimension to video with Stable Video 3D\n(00:44:23) Colossal-AI Team Introduces Open-Sora: An Open-Source Library for Video Generation\n(00:45:43) Evolutionary Optimization of Model Merging Recipes\n\nResearch & Advancements\n(00:46:52) DiPaCo: Distributed Path Composition\n(00:53:58) MM1: Methods, Analysis & Insights from Multimodal LLM Pre-training\n(00:59:37) PERL: Parameter Efficient Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback\n(01:01:55) VideoAgent: Long-form Video Understanding with Large Language Model as Agent\n(01:05:38) MusicHiFi: Fast High-Fidelity Stereo Vocoding\n\nPolicy & Safety\n(01:06:44) The WMDP Benchmark: Measuring and Reducing Malicious Use With Unlearning\n(01:12:43) Exclusive: U.S. Must Move \u2018Decisively\u2019 to Avert \u2018Extinction-Level\u2019 Threat From AI, Government-Commissioned Report Says\n(01:18:18) Evaluating Frontier Models for Dangerous Capabilities\n(01:22:55) Chinese and western scientists identify \u2018red lines\u2019 on AI risks\n(01:26:11) Google fined $272M by French government over AI use of news content\n(01:27:58) Elvis Act Signed Into Tennessee Law to Protect Musicians From AI Deepfakes\n\nSynthetic Media & Art\n(01:30:17) AI-Generated Science\n(01:35:35) YouTube adds new AI-generated content labeling tool\n\nFun!\n(01:37:29) 10 of My Most Popular Text-To-Image Series (+Prompts)