LWiAI Podcast #191 - Sora leak, Pixtral Large, OpenAI email archives

Our 191st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news!
*and sometimes last last week’s

Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.
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In this episode:

• OpenAI's leaked Sora video generator demonstrates advanced capabilities, while Mistral updates Let’s Chat with new features like image generation and web search integration.

• Microsoft's Ignite 2024 reveals AI agents for various applications, and Paris-based startup H introduces its AI runner for agentic applications.

• Deep Seek's new R1 Light preview model replicates OpenAI's reasoning abilities and Cerebrus releases a high-performance chip for LLMs, significantly faster than GPU-based alternatives.

• Anthropic introduces new styles feature in Claude, and Amazon invests an additional $4 billion in the AI startup, signaling stronger industry ties.

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Timestamps + Links:

• (00:00:00) Intro / Banter

• (00:02:55) Response to listener comments

• (00:09:30) Sponsor Break

• Tools & Apps

  • (00:10:52) OpenAI’s Sora video generator appears to have leaked

  • (00:21:11) Mistral unleashes Pixtral Large and upgrades Le Chat into full-on ChatGPT competitor

  • (00:26:39) Ignite 2024 introduces new AI agents and more for Microsoft 365 Copilot

  • (00:28:50) H, the AI startup that raised $220M, launches its first product: Runner H for ‘agentic’ applications

  • (00:31:20) Anthropic bets on personalization in the AI arms race with new ‘styles’ feature

  • (00:33:42) ElevenLabs now offers ability to build conversational AI agents

  • (00:37:08) Perplexity introduces a shopping feature for Pro users in the U.S.

  • (00:38:49) Google’s Gemini chatbot now has memory

  • (00:43:03) Suno V4 Ai Music Generator Is Out Now And It’s Very Impressive

  • (00:46:28) Introducing FLUX.1 Tools

  • (00:49:51) OpenAI just gave ChatGPT a major 'creativity' upgrade

  • (00:51:26) Runway launches Frames — a new AI image generator that creates custom worlds

• Applications & Business

  • (00:54:56) OpenAI Email Archives (from Musk v. Altman)

  • (01:02:01) Amazon to invest another $4 billion in Anthropic, OpenAI's biggest rival

  • (01:05:41) Amazon Robots Struggling to Keep Up With Human Workers

• Projects & Open Source

  • (01:11:27) DeepSeek’s first reasoning model R1-Lite-Preview turns heads, beating OpenAI o1 performance

  • (01:15:30) OpenScholar: The open-source A.I. that’s outperforming GPT-4o in scientific research

• Research & Advancements

  • (01:18:02) A statistical approach to model evaluations

  • (01:22:08) Scaling Laws for Precision

  • (01:25:10) Cerebras Delivers Record-Breaking Performance with Meta’s Llama 3.1 405B Model

• Policy & Safety

  • (01:28:01) Sam Altman will co-chair San Francisco mayor-elect Daniel Lurie’s transition team

  • (01:32:21) Biden’s final meeting with Xi Jinping reaps agreement on AI and nukes

• Synthetic Media & Art

  • (01:33:07) How Did You Do On The AI Art Turing Test?

• (01:38:27) Outro