#149 - Reflecting on 2023, Midjourney v6, Anthropic Revenue, Unified-IO 2, NY Times sues OpenAI
Update: 2024-01-07
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Our 149th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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- (00:00:00 ) Intro / Banter
- (00:08:13 ) Reflections on 2023
- Tools & Apps
- (00:26:32 ) Midjourney Version 6: Look Ma, Text!
- (00:32:09 ) Baidu's ChatGPT-like Ernie Bot has more than 100 mln users
- (00:36:05 ) Android Auto will have Google Assistant summarize your messages with AI
- (00:37:00 ) Some of the Samsung Galaxy S24's key AI features just leaked
- (00:38:33 ) Microsoft quietly launches dedicated Copilot app for Android
- Applications & Business
- (00:39:00 ) Anthropic forecasts more than $850 mln in annualized revenue rate by 2024-end
- (00:42:25 ) Anthropic, the OpenAI rival, is in talks to raise $750 million in funding at an $18.4 billion valuation
- (00:44:10 ) OpenAI annualized revenue tops $1.6 billion
- (00:44:46 ) Nvidia releases slower, less powerful AI chip for China
- (00:47:30 ) SMIC is reportedly working on 3nm process technology despite US sanctions
- (00:50:16 ) Huawei Files A Patent That Enhances Wafer Alignment And Efficiency, Hinting At The Company’s Self-Built Fabrication Plants
- (00:52:36 ) ASML ships first "High NA" lithography system to Intel -statement
- Research & Advancements
- (00:54:45 ) Unified-IO 2: Scaling Autoregressive Multimodal Models with Vision, Language, Audio, and Action
- (00:59:11 ) Task Contamination: Language Models May Not Be Few-Shot Anymore
- (01:02:49 ) Evaluating Language-Model Agents on Realistic Autonomous Tasks
- (01:08:14 ) TinyGPT-V: Efficient Multimodal Large Language Model via Small Backbones
- (01:09:47 ) Improving Text Embeddings with Large Language Models
- (01:10:41 ) DeWave: Discrete EEG Waves Encoding for Brain Dynamics to Text Translation
- Policy & Safety
- (01:13:23 ) The Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over A.I. Use of Copyrighted Work
- (01:18:12 ) Congress warns science agency over AI grant to tech-linked think tank
- (01:21:48 ) Elon Musk’s xAI Jumps on the Bandwagon of Rich Startups 'Benefiting Humanity'
- (01:23:40 ) Outro
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