Our 163rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!\nNote: apology for this one coming out a few days late, got delayed in editing it -Andrey\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:\nIntro / Banter\nTools & Apps\n(00:02:16) Meta releases Llama 3, claims it\u2019s among the best open models available\n(00:14:01) Elon Musk\u2019s xAI Unveils Grok-1.5 Vision, Beats OpenAI\u2019s GPT-4V\n(00:17:55) Reka releases Reka Core, its multimodal language model to rival GPT-4 and Claude 3 Opus\n(00:21:50) Cohere Compass Private Beta: A New Multi-Aspect Embedding Model\n(00:23:48) Amazon Music\u2019s Maestro lets listeners make AI playlists\n(00:24:36) Snap plans to add watermarks to images created with its AI-powered tools\n\nApplications & Business\n(00:25:52) Boston Dynamics unveils new Atlas robot for commercial use\n(00:30:32) TSMC\u2019s $65 billion bet still leaves US missing piece of chip puzzle\n(00:36:30) U.S. blacklists Intel's and Nvidia's key partner in China \u2014 three other Chinese firms also included in the blacklist for helping the military\n(00:38:37) Elon Musk says the next-generation Grok 3 model will require 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs to train\n(00:40:22) Dr. Andrew Ng appointed to Amazon\u2019s Board of Directors\n(00:41:55) Collaborative Robotics Locks Up $100M, Latest Robot Startup To Raise Big\n\nProjects & Open Source\n(00:44:08) OpenEQA: Embodied Question Answering in the Era of Foundation Models\n(00:50:03) Introducing Idefics2: A Powerful 8B Vision-Language Model for the community\n\nResearch & Advancements\n(00:51:21) RHO-1: Not All Tokens Are What You Need\n(00:57:21) Scaling Laws for Fine-Grained Mixture of Experts\n(01:03:20) Chinchilla Scaling: A replication attempt\n(01:07:18) China develops new light-based chiplet that could power artificial general intelligence \u2014 where AI is smarter than humans\n(01:10:45) OSWorld: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents for Open-Ended Tasks in Real Computer Environments\n\nPolicy & Safety\n(01:13:44) U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo Announces Expansion of U.S. AI Safety Institute Leadership Team\n(01:17:18) NSA Publishes Guidance for Strengthening AI System Security\n(01:19:19) Foundational Challenges in Assuring Alignment and Safety of Large Language Models\n(01:24:11) Former OpenAI Board Member Calls for Audits of Top AI Companies\n(01:27:35) SoA survey reveals a third of translators and quarter of illustrators losing work to AI\n\nSynthetic Media & Art\n(01:30:25) Medium bans AI-generated content from its paid Partner Program