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Our 170th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!\nWith hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)\nFeel free to leave us feedback here.\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(00:03:33) KLING is the latest AI video generator that could rival OpenAI's Sora\n(00:09:16) \u2018Apple Intelligence\u2019 will automatically choose between on-device and cloud-powered AI\n(00:12:21) Udio introduces new udio-130 music generation model and more advanced features\n(00:14:38) Perplexity AI\u2019s new feature will turn your searches into shareable pages\n(00:16:35) ElevenLabs\u2019 AI generator makes explosions or other sound effects with just a prompt\n(00:18:37) Google\u2019s updated AI-powered NotebookLM expands to India, UK and over 200 other countries\n\nApplications & Business(00:19:40) OpenAI is restarting its robotics research group\n(00:25:01) Saudi fund invests in China effort to create rival to OpenAI\n(00:29:34) UAE seeks \u2018marriage\u2019 with US over artificial intelligence deals\n(00:33:01) Zoox to test self-driving cars in Austin and Miami\xa0\n(00:35:49) Microsoft Lays Off 1,500 Workers, Blames "AI Wave"\n(00:38:28) Avengers, assemble\u2014Google, Intel, Microsoft, AMD and more team up to develop an interconnect standard to rival Nvidia's NVLink\n\nProjects & Open Source(00:40:39) GLM-4-9B-Chat-1M\n(00:46:37) Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics show off first project: an open source robot that does chores\n(00:49:40) Zyphra debuts Zyda, a 1.3T language modeling dataset it claims outperforms Pile, C4, arxiv\n(00:51:59) Stability AI debuts new Stable Audio Open for sound design\n\nResearch & Advancements(00:54:05) Scaling and evaluating sparse autoencoders\n(01:04:54) Improving Alignment and Robustness with Short Circuiting\n(01:12:11) Automatic Data Curation for Self-Supervised Learning: A Clustering-Based Approach\n(01:16:20) GPT-4 didn't ace the bar exam after all, MIT research suggests \u2014 it didn't even break the 70th percentile\n\nPolicy & Safety(01:20:11) Former OpenAI researcher foresees AGI reality in 2027\n(01:28:03) OpenAI Insiders Warn of a \u2018Reckless\u2019 Race for Dominance\n(01:33:52) Testing and mitigating elections-related risks\n(01:36:26) Teams of LLM Agents can Exploit Zero-Day Vulnerabilities\n\nSynthetic Media & Art(01:43:23) The Uncanny Rise of the World's First AI Beauty Pageant\n\n(01:46:25) Outro + AI Song