#147 – Google’s Gemini, EU AI Act Deal, Mixtral of Experts, Meta’s ‘Seamless’ translator

Our 147th episode with a summary and discussion of last week’s big AI news!

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(00:00:00) Intro/Sponsor Read

Tools & Apps

(00:03:00) Google Just Launched Gemini, Its Long-Awaited Answer to ChatGPT

(00:14:15) Google’s best Gemini demo was faked 

(00:19:33) Early impressions of Google’s Gemini aren’t great

(00:22:30) Google unveils AlphaCode 2, powered by Gemini

(00:24:50) Pixel 8 Pro — the first smartphone with AI built in — is now running Gemini Nano

(00:25:55) Meta unveils Audiobox, an AI that clones voices and generates ambient sounds

(00:29:55) Oops! Elon Musk’s Grok AI Caught Plagiarizing OpenAI’s ChatGPT

(00:33:21) Elon Musk Fans Horrified When His Grok AI Immediately “Goes Woke”

(00:34:51) Gmail’s AI-powered spam detection is its biggest security upgrade in years

(00:35:55) Augmenting Local AI with Browser Data: Introducing MemoryCache

Applications & Business

(00:37:23) Meta and Microsoft say they will buy AMD’s new AI chip as an alternative to Nvidia’s

(00:42:02) China poised to break 5nm barrier — Huawei lists 5nm processor presumably built with SMIC tech, defying U.S. sanctions

(00:46:44) OpenAI’s Altman Ouster Was Result of Drawn-Out Tensions

(00:50:20) The OpenAI Board Member Who Clashed With Sam Altman Shares Her Side

(00:51:46)  Google announces the Cloud TPU v5p, its most powerful AI accelerator yet

(00:54:08) Tesla’s Dojo Supercomputer Head Exits in Blow to Efforts

(00:56:45) AssemblyAI lands $50M to build and serve AI speech models

(00:57:41) Sydney-based generative AI art platform Leonardo.Ai raises $31M

Projects & Open Source

(00:59:20) Mixtral of experts

(01:05:50) Meta AI unveils ‘Seamless’ translator for real-time communication across languages

(01:07:07) Paving the way to efficient architectures: StripedHyena-7B, open source models offering a glimpse into a world beyond Transformers

(01:10:15) Introducing Purple Llama for Safe and Responsible AI Development

Research & Advancements

(01:13:21) WALT is a new AI video tool that creates photorealistic clips from a single image — you have to see it to believe it

(01:14:20) Long context prompting for Claude 2.1

(01:17:40) Real-World Humanoid Locomotion with Reinforcement Learning

(01:19:04) Defending ChatGPT against jailbreak attack via self-reminders

(01:21:20) Beyond Human Data: Scaling Self-Training for Problem-Solving with Language Models

(01:23:40) Who is leading in AI? An analysis of industry AI research

Policy & Safety

(01:26:41) E.U. Agrees on Landmark Artificial Intelligence Rules

(01:33:58) More Trouble Brews For Microsoft As FTC Allegedly Starts Inquiring Into OpenAI Investment

(01:39:12) Asking ChatGPT to Repeat Words ‘Forever’ Is Now a Terms of Service Violation

(01:41:22)  US in talks with Nvidia about AI chip sales to China

(01:44:12) MIT group releases white papers on governance of AI

(01:47:25) G7 agrees on first comprehensive guidelines for generative AI

Synthetic Media & Art

(01:49:03) High Court rules that Getty v Stability AI case can proceed

(01:52:55) Top Execs at Sports Illustrated’s Publisher Fired After AI Debacle

(01:55:57) Outro