Our 199th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Recorded on 02/09/2025

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In this episode:

- OpenAI's deep research feature capability launched, allowing models to generate detailed reports after prolonged inference periods, competing directly with Google's Gemini 2.0 reasoning models. 

- France and UAE jointly announce plans to build a massive AI data center in France, aiming to become a competitive player within the AI infrastructure landscape. 

- Mistral introduces a mobile app, broadening its consumer AI lineup amidst market skepticism about its ability to compete against larger firms like OpenAI and Google. 

- Anthropic unveils 'Constitutional Classifiers,' a method showing strong defenses against universal jailbreaks; they also launched a $20K challenge to find weaknesses.

Timestamps + Links:

• (00:00:00 ) Intro / Banter


• (00:02:27 ) News Preview


• (00:03:28 ) Response to listener comments


• Tools & Apps
  
  
  • (00:08:01 ) OpenAI now reveals more of its o3-mini model’s thought process
  
  
  • (00:16:03 ) Google’s Gemini app adds access to ‘thinking’ AI models
  
  
  • (00:21:04 ) OpenAI Unveils A.I. Tool That Can Do Research Online
  
  
  • (00:31:09 ) Mistral releases its AI assistant on iOS and Android
  
  
  • (00:36:17 ) AI music startup Riffusion launches its service in public beta
  
  
  • (00:39:11 ) Pikadditions by Pika Labs lets users seamlessly insert objects into videos
  
  
  
  



• Applications & Business
  
  
  • (00:41:19 ) Softbank set to invest $40 billion in OpenAI at $260 billion valuation, sources say
  
  
  • (00:47:36 ) UAE to invest billions in France AI data centre
  
  
  • (00:50:34 ) Report: Ilya Sutskever’s startup in talks to fundraise at roughly $20B valuation
  
  
  • (00:52:03 ) ASML to Ship First Second-Gen High-NA EUV Machine in the Coming Months, Aiming for 2026 Production
  
  
  • (00:54:38 ) NVIDIA’s GB200 NVL 72 Shipments Not Under Threat From DeepSeek As Hyperscalers Maintain CapEx; Meanwhile, Trump Tariffs Play Havoc With TSMC’s Pricing Strategy
  
  
  
  



• Projects & Open Source
  
  
  • (00:56:49 ) The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) Releases Tülu 3 405B: Scaling Open-Weight...
  
  
  • (01:00:06 ) SmolLM2: When Smol Goes Big -- Data-Centric Training of a Small Language Model
  
  
  • (01:03:56 ) PhD Knowledge Not Required: A Reasoning Challenge for Large Language Models
  
  
  • (01:08:26 ) OpenEuroLLM: Europe’s New Initiative for Open-Source AI Development
  
  
  
  



• Research & Advancements
  
  
  • (01:10:34 ) LIMO: Less is More for Reasoning
  
  
  • (01:16:39 ) s1: Simple test-time scaling
  
  
  • (01:19:17 ) ZebraLogic: On the Scaling Limits of LLMs for Logical Reasoning
  
  
  • (01:23:55 ) Streaming DiLoCo with overlapping communication: Towards a Distributed Free Lunch
  
  
  
  



• Policy & Safety
  
  
  • (01:26:50 ) US sets AI safety aside in favor of 'AI dominance'
  
  
  • (01:29:39 ) Almost Surely Safe Alignment of Large Language Models at Inference-Time
  
  
  • (01:32:02 ) Constitutional Classifiers: Defending against Universal Jailbreaks across Thousands of Hours of Red Teaming
  
  
  
  

(01:33:16 ) Anthropic offers $20,000 to whoever can jailbreak its new AI safety system