LWiAI Podcast #149 - Reflecting on 2023, Midjourney v6, Anthropic Revenue, Unified-IO 2, NY Times sues OpenAI

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Our 149th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Timestamps + links:

• (00:00:00) Intro / Banter

• (00:08:13) Reflections on 2023

• Tools & Apps

  • (00:26:32) Midjourney Version 6: Look Ma, Text!

  • (00:32:09) Baidu's ChatGPT-like Ernie Bot has more than 100 mln users

  • (00:36:05) Android Auto will have Google Assistant summarize your messages with AI

  • (00:37:00) Some of the Samsung Galaxy S24's key AI features just leaked

  • (00:38:33) Microsoft quietly launches dedicated Copilot app for Android

• Applications & Business

  • (00:39:00) Anthropic forecasts more than $850 mln in annualized revenue rate by 2024-end

  • (00:42:25) Anthropic, the OpenAI rival, is in talks to raise $750 million in funding at an $18.4 billion valuation

  • (00:44:10) OpenAI annualized revenue tops $1.6 billion

  • (00:44:46) Nvidia releases slower, less powerful AI chip for China

  • (00:47:30) SMIC is reportedly working on 3nm process technology despite US sanctions

  • (00:50:16) Huawei Files A Patent That Enhances Wafer Alignment And Efficiency, Hinting At The Company’s Self-Built Fabrication Plants

  • (00:52:36) ASML ships first "High NA" lithography system to Intel -statement

• Research & Advancements

  • (00:54:45) Unified-IO 2: Scaling Autoregressive Multimodal Models with Vision, Language, Audio, and Action

  • (00:59:11) Task Contamination: Language Models May Not Be Few-Shot Anymore

  • (01:02:49) Evaluating Language-Model Agents on Realistic Autonomous Tasks

  • (01:08:14) TinyGPT-V: Efficient Multimodal Large Language Model via Small Backbones

  • (01:09:47) Improving Text Embeddings with Large Language Models

  • (01:10:41) DeWave: Discrete EEG Waves Encoding for Brain Dynamics to Text Translation

• Policy & Safety

  • (01:13:23) The Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over A.I. Use of Copyrighted Work

  • (01:18:12) Congress warns science agency over AI grant to tech-linked think tank

  • (01:21:48) Elon Musk’s xAI Jumps on the Bandwagon of Rich Startups 'Benefiting Humanity'

  • (01:23:40) Outro