#163 - Llama 3, Grok-1.5 Vision, new Atlas robot, RHO-1, Medium ban
Update: 2024-04-242
Description
Our 163rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Note: apology for this one coming out a few days late, got delayed in editing it -Andrey
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Timestamps + links:
- Intro / Banter
- Tools & Apps
- (00:02:16 ) Meta releases Llama 3, claims it’s among the best open models available
- (00:14:01 ) Elon Musk’s xAI Unveils Grok-1.5 Vision, Beats OpenAI’s GPT-4V
- (00:17:55 ) Reka releases Reka Core, its multimodal language model to rival GPT-4 and Claude 3 Opus
- (00:21:50 ) Cohere Compass Private Beta: A New Multi-Aspect Embedding Model
- (00:23:48 ) Amazon Music’s Maestro lets listeners make AI playlists
- (00:24:36 ) Snap plans to add watermarks to images created with its AI-powered tools
- Applications & Business
- (00:25:52 ) Boston Dynamics unveils new Atlas robot for commercial use
- (00:30:32 ) TSMC’s $65 billion bet still leaves US missing piece of chip puzzle
- (00:36:30 ) U.S. blacklists Intel's and Nvidia's key partner in China — three other Chinese firms also included in the blacklist for helping the military
- (00:38:37 ) Elon Musk says the next-generation Grok 3 model will require 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs to train
- (00:40:22 ) Dr. Andrew Ng appointed to Amazon’s Board of Directors
- (00:41:55 ) Collaborative Robotics Locks Up $100M, Latest Robot Startup To Raise Big
- Projects & Open Source
- (00:44:08 ) OpenEQA: Embodied Question Answering in the Era of Foundation Models
- (00:50:03 ) Introducing Idefics2: A Powerful 8B Vision-Language Model for the community
- Research & Advancements
- (00:51:21 ) RHO-1: Not All Tokens Are What You Need
- (00:57:21 ) Scaling Laws for Fine-Grained Mixture of Experts
- (01:03:20 ) Chinchilla Scaling: A replication attempt
- (01:07:18 ) China develops new light-based chiplet that could power artificial general intelligence — where AI is smarter than humans
- (01:10:45 ) OSWorld: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents for Open-Ended Tasks in Real Computer Environments
- Policy & Safety
- (01:13:44 ) U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo Announces Expansion of U.S. AI Safety Institute Leadership Team
- (01:17:18 ) NSA Publishes Guidance for Strengthening AI System Security
- (01:19:19 ) Foundational Challenges in Assuring Alignment and Safety of Large Language Models
- (01:24:11 ) Former OpenAI Board Member Calls for Audits of Top AI Companies
- (01:27:35 ) SoA survey reveals a third of translators and quarter of illustrators losing work to AI
- Synthetic Media & Art
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