#160 - Nvidia's new GPU, Microsoft pays for Inflection AI, Grok-1 open sourced, Jeremie's Action Plan
Update: 2024-03-24
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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
- Fun!
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