#197 - AI in Gmail+Docs, MiniMax-01, Titans, Transformer^2

Our 197th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Recorded on 01/17/2024

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In this episode:

 - Google and Mistral sign deals with AP and AFP, respectively, to deliver up-to-date news through their AI platforms.

 - ChatGPT introduces a tasks feature for reminders and to-dos, positioning itself more as a personal assistant.

 - Synthesia raises $180 million to enhance its AI video platform for generating videos of human avatars.

 - New U.S. guidelines restrict exporting AI chips to various countries, impacting Nvidia and other tech firms.

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Timestamps + Links:

(00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:04:29) News Preview (00:05:09) Response to listener comments (00:05:58) Sponsor Break Tools & Apps(00:07:01) Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free — but raising the price of Workspace (00:07:52) Microsoft relaunches Copilot for business with free AI chat and pay-as-you-go agents (00:12:36) Google signs deal with AP to deliver up-to-date news through its Gemini AI chatbot (00:18:08) Mistral signs deal with AFP to offer up-to-date answers in Le Chat (00:18:45) ChatGPT can now handle reminders and to-dos Applications & Business(00:22:53) Palmer Luckey’s AI Defense Company Anduril Is Building a $1 Billion Plant in Ohio (00:28:36) OpenAI is bankrolling Axios’ expansion into four new markets (00:29:39) AI researcher François Chollet founds a new AI lab focused on AGI (00:32:18) Nvidia-backed AI video platform Synthesia doubles valuation to $2.1 billion (00:34:46) Anysphere Raises $105M in Series B (00:40:14) Harvey Valuation of 3 Billion Projects & Open Source(00:46:12) MiniMax-01: Scaling Foundation Models with Lightning Attention (00:51:16) MinMo: A Multimodal Large Language Model with Approximately 8B Parameters for Seamless Voice Interaction (00:53:01) HALoGEN: Fantastic LLM Hallucinations and Where to Find Them Research & Advancements(00:57:03) Titans: Learning to Memorize at Test Time (01:04:38) Transformer2: Self-adaptive LLMs (01:08:15) Inference-Time Scaling for Diffusion Models beyond Scaling Denoising Steps Policy & Safety(01:11:23) Biden administration proposes sweeping new restrictions on exporting AI chips (01:13:56) Biden orders Energy, Defense departments to lease sites for AI data centers, clean energy generation (01:15:00) OpenAI presents its preferred version of AI regulation in a new ‘blueprint’ (01:16:15) More teens report using ChatGPT for schoolwork, despite the tech’s faults Synthetic Media & Art(01:17:55) In AI copyright case, Zuckerberg turns to YouTube for his defense (01:19:53) Outro