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Our 176th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!\nNOTE: apologies for this episode coming out about a week late, things got in the way of editing it...\nWith hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)\n\xa0\nRead out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/\nIf you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form.\nEmail us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or\xa0hello@gladstone.ai\n(00:00:00) Intro Song\n(00:00:34) Intro Banter\nTools & Apps(00:03:39) OpenAI announces SearchGPT, its AI-powered search engine\n(00:08:03) Google gives free Gemini users access to its faster, lighter 1.5 Flash AI model\n(00:09:10) X launches underwhelming Grok-powered \u2018More About This Account\u2019 feature\n(00:11:36) Kuaishou Launches Full Beta Testing for 'Kling AI' to Global Users, Elevates Model Capabilities\n(00:13:39) Adobe rolls out more generative AI features to Illustrator and Photoshop\n(00:14:25) Meta AI gets new \u2018Imagine me\u2019 selfie feature\n\nProjects & Open Source(00:15:19) Meta releases open-source AI model it says rivals OpenAI, Google tech\n(00:28:23) Mistral AI Unveils Mistral Large 2, Beats Llama 3.1 on Code and Math\n(00:34:00) Groq\u2019s open-source Llama AI model tops leaderboard, outperforming GPT-4o and Claude in function calling\n(00:36:35) Apple shows off open AI prowess: new models outperform Mistral and Hugging Face offerings\n\nApplications & Business(00:40:25) Elon Musk wants Tesla to invest $5 billion into his newest startup, xAI \u2014 if shareholders approve\n(00:43:01) Nvidia said to be prepping Blackwell GPUs for Chinese market\n(00:46:28) Toronto AI company Cohere to indemnify customers who are sued for any copyright violations\n(00:49:09) AI startup Cohere raises US$500-million, valuing company at US$5.5-billion\n\nResearch & Advancements(00:52:01) AI achieves silver-medal standard solving International Mathematical Olympiad problems\n(00:56:47) A Multimodal Automated Interpretability Agent\n(01:00:56) MINT-1T: Scaling Open-Source Multimodal Data by 10x: A Multimodal Dataset with One Trillion Tokens\n\nPolicy & Safety(01:02:56) Improving Model Safety Behavior with Rule-Based Rewards\n(01:06:39) Senators demand OpenAI detail efforts to make its AI safe\n(01:10:59) OpenAI reassigns top AI safety executive Aleksandr Madry to role focused on AI reasoning\n(01:13:08) As new tech threatens jobs, Silicon Valley promotes no-strings cash aid\n(01:17:33) Democratic senators seek to reverse Supreme Court ruling that restricts federal agency power\n\nSynthetic Media & Art(01:20:58) Video game performers will go on strike over artificial intelligence concerns\n\n(01:23:03) Outro\n(01:23:58) AI Song