LWiAI Podcast #143 - OpenAI CEO FIRED, Cruise halts driving, xAI’s Grok, DeepMind defines AGI, actor strike over

Our 143rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, now back with the usual hosts!

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Timestamps + links:

• Applications & Business

  • (02:53) Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI

  • (12:00) Everything announced at OpenAI’s first developer event

  • (16:05) GM's Cruise suspends supervised and manual car trips, expands probes

  • (18:30) Under Fire Over Robotaxi Safety, GM Halts Production Of Cruise Driverless Van

  • (20:55) Microsoft unveils first AI chip, Maia 100, and Cobalt CPU

  • (21:35) AV Startup May Mobility Locks Up Another $105M From NTT, Toyota

  • (22:38) Aleph Alpha raises $500m Series B in Europe’s third-largest AI round ever

  • (23:22) AI startup Twelve Labs attracts US$10 mln from Nvidia, Intel, others

  • (24:16) Defense Tech Startup Shield AI Raises $200M At $2.7B Valuation

• Tools & Apps

  • (25:00) Elon Musk debuts 'Grok' AI bot to rival ChatGPT, others

  • (27:38) Brave responds to Bing and ChatGPT with a new ‘anonymous and secure’ AI chatbot

  • (30:03) ChatGPT is combining its different abilities into a single ‘Voltron-style’ chat

  • (31:01) LinkedIn's new AI chatbot wants to help you get a job

  • (32:07) Meet Samsung's Answer to ChatGPT: A New AI Model Called Gauss

  • (33:33) Humane’s AI Pin: all the news about the new AI-powered wearable

• Projects & Open Source

  • (36:06) Valued at $1B, Kai-Fu Lee’s LLM startup unveils open source model

• Research & Advancements

  • (40:03) Google DeepMind wants to define what counts as artificial general intelligence

  • (42:35) Google DeepMind breaks new ground with ‘Mirasol3B’ for advanced video analysis

  • (45:15) MetNet-3: A state-of-the-art neural weather model available in Google products

  • (46:06) Instant3D: Instant Text-to-3D Generation

  • (47:54) Title:One-2-3-45++: Fast Single Image to 3D Objects with Consistent Multi-View Generation and 3D Diffusion

  • (49:12) Holistic Evaluation of Text-To-Image Models

• Policy & Safety

  • (51:37) Biden Issues Executive Order to Create A.I. Safeguards

  • (56:10) Amy Klobuchar and John Thune introduce legislation for creating generative AI framework

  • (57:55) Midjourney, Stability AI and DeviantArt win a victory in copyright case by artists — but the fight continues

  • (01:00:19) At UK's AI Summit developers and govts agree on testing to help manage risks

  • (01:02:15) White faces generated by AI are more convincing than photos, finds survey

• Synthetic Media & Art

  • (01:04:12) Striking Actors and Hollywood Studios Agree to a Deal

  • (01:07:46) Google is embedding inaudible watermarks right into its AI generated music

  • (01:10:10) YouTube previews AI tool that clones famous singers — with their permission

  • (01:11:08) Microsoft is bringing AI characters to Xbox

  • (01:11:49) CBS News Launches New Venture To Identify AI Deepfakes And Misinformation