Our 160th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Timestamps + links:
Tools & Apps
(00:01:36) Adobe Substance 3D’s AI features can turn text into backgrounds and textures
(00:05:04) OpenAI’s chatbot store is filling up with spam
(00:11:02) Apple’s AI ambitions could include Google or OpenAI
Applications & Business
(00:13:31) Nvidia reveals Blackwell B200 GPU, the ‘world’s most powerful chip’ for AI
(00:19:34) Microsoft to Pay Inflection AI $650 Million After Scooping Up Most of Staff
(00:24:33) Figure 01: Conversations & Actions in Humanoid Robotics!
(00:28:07) OpenAI's GPT-4.5 Turbo leaked on search engines and could launch in June
(00:30:32) Abu Dhabi in talks to invest in OpenAI chip venture
(00:33:43) Nvidia Announces GR00T, a Foundation Model For Humanoids
Projects & Open Source
(00:35:38) Open Release of Grok-1
(00:41:25) Stability AI brings a new dimension to video with Stable Video 3D
(00:44:23) Colossal-AI Team Introduces Open-Sora: An Open-Source Library for Video Generation
(00:45:43) Evolutionary Optimization of Model Merging Recipes
Research & Advancements
(00:46:52) DiPaCo: Distributed Path Composition
(00:53:58) MM1: Methods, Analysis & Insights from Multimodal LLM Pre-training
(00:59:37) PERL: Parameter Efficient Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
(01:01:55) VideoAgent: Long-form Video Understanding with Large Language Model as Agent
(01:05:38) MusicHiFi: Fast High-Fidelity Stereo Vocoding
Policy & Safety
(01:06:44) The WMDP Benchmark: Measuring and Reducing Malicious Use With Unlearning
(01:12:43) Exclusive: U.S. Must Move ‘Decisively’ to Avert ‘Extinction-Level’ Threat From AI, Government-Commissioned Report Says
(01:18:18) Evaluating Frontier Models for Dangerous Capabilities
(01:22:55) Chinese and western scientists identify ‘red lines’ on AI risks
(01:26:11) Google fined $272M by French government over AI use of news content
(01:27:58) Elvis Act Signed Into Tennessee Law to Protect Musicians From AI Deepfakes
Synthetic Media & Art
(01:30:17) AI-Generated Science
(01:35:35) YouTube adds new AI-generated content labeling tool
Fun!
(01:37:29) 10 of My Most Popular Text-To-Image Series (+Prompts)
