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LWiAI Podcast #210 - Claude 4, Google I/O 2025, Gemini Diffusion
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LWiAI Podcast #210 - Claude 4, Google I/O 2025, Gemini Diffusion

Anthropic’s new Claude 4 AI models can reason over many steps, Google has 10000 announcements, OpenAI makes a big acquisition

Our 210th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Recorded on 05/23/2025

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

  • Google's Gemini diffusion technology showcases significant improvements in speed and efficiency for generating text, potentially revolutionizing the auto-regressive generation paradigm.

  • Anthropic activates AI Safety Level 3 protections for Claude Opus 4, implementing robust measures such as bug bounties, synthetic jailbreak data, and preliminary egress bandwidth controls to mitigate bio-risk threats.

  • OpenAI responds to the California Attorney General, refuting claims by the not-for-private-gain coalition and defending their controversial restructuring plans amidst ongoing criticism.

  • Mistral delays the release of its Llama 4 Behemoth model due to training challenges, while Meta faces similar obstacles in rolling out its large-scale AI models, signaling difficulties in reaching frontier level performance.

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