Our 171st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)
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Timestamps + Links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
Tools & Apps
(00:03:13) Apple Intelligence: every new AI feature coming to the iPhone and Mac
(00:14:48) Runway unveils new hyper realistic AI video model Gen-3 Alpha, capable of 10-second-long clips
(00:18:21) Leonardo AI image generator adds new video mode — here’s how it works
(00:22:31) Anthropic just dropped Claude 3.5 Sonnet with better vision and a sense of humor
Applications & Business
(00:28:23 ) Sam Altman might reportedly turn OpenAI into a regular for-profit company
(00:31:19) Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross, Daniel Levy launch Safe Superintelligence Inc.
(00:38:53) OpenAI welcomes Sarah Friar (CFO) and Kevin Weil (CPO)
(00:41:44) Report: OpenAI Doubled Annualized Revenue in 6 Months
(00:48:55) Mistral closes €600m at €5.8bn valuation with new lead investor
(00:53:12) Huawei Claims Ascend 910B AI Chip Manages To Surpass NVIDIA’s A100, A Crucial Alternative For China
(00:56:58) Astrocade raises $12M for AI-based social gaming platform
Projects & Open Source
Research & Advancements
(01:12:02) Samba: Simple Hybrid State Space Models for Efficient Unlimited Context Language Modeling
(01:22:07) Improve Mathematical Reasoning in Language Models by Automated Process Supervision
(01:28:01) Introducing Lamini Memory Tuning: 95% LLM Accuracy, 10x Fewer Hallucinations
(01:30:32) An Empirical Study of Mamba-based Language Models
(01:31:57) BERTs are Generative In-Context Learners
(01:33:33) SELFGOAL: Your Language Agents Already Know How to Achieve High-level Goals
Policy & Safety
(01:35:16) Sycophancy to subterfuge: Investigating reward tampering in language models
(01:42:26) Waymo issues software and mapping recall after robotaxi crashes into a telephone pole
(01:45:53) Meta pauses AI models launch in Europe
(01:46:44) Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction
Sycophancy to subterfuge: Investigating reward tampering in language models
Synthetic Media & Art
(02:02:23) Outro + AI Song
LWiAI Podcast #171 - Apple Intelligence, Dream Machine, SSI Inc