Our 203rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Recorded on 03/14/2025

Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.

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In this episode:

• OpenAI's new 'deep research' feature has raised concerns about cybersecurity and the potential misuse of AI models for bio-weapons and autonomous capabilities, prompting new safety and governance measures.


• Google's extensive $3 billion investment in Anthropic is revealed, aligning with their AI strategy and reinforcing the importance of multiple technology partnerships.


• Huawei's advancements in the AI chip industry are highlighted, with significant progress in producing chips comparable to Nvidia's H100, despite export control challenges.


• China's recent directive discourages AI executives from traveling to the US, reflecting heightened security concerns and potentially signaling a more adversarial stance in the AI race.

Timestamps + Links:

• (00:00:00 ) Intro / Banter


• (00:01:30 ) News Preview


• Tools & Apps

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  • (00:02:30 ) OpenAI launches new tools to help businesses build AI agents
  
  
  • (00:08:50 ) You can now test Gemini 2.0 Flash’s native image output 
  
  
  • (00:13:32 ) Waymo is now offering 24/7 robotaxi rides in Silicon Valley
  
  
  • (00:17:19 ) Moonvalley releases a video generator it claims was trained on licensed content
  
  
  • (00:21:11 ) Snap introduces AI Video Lenses powered by its in-house generative model
  
  
  • (00:23:37 ) Sudowrite Launches Muse AI Model That Can Generate Narrative-Driven Fiction
  
  
  
  

• Applications & Business

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  • (00:27:48 ) In another chess move with Microsoft, OpenAI is pouring $12B into CoreWeave
  
  
  • (00:30:54 ) Huawei’s Ascend 910C Takes on NVIDIA as China’s AI Race Heats Up: More Alleged Details
  
  
  • (00:36:26 ) Huawei reportedly acquired two million Ascend 910 AI chips from TSMC last year through shell companies
  
  
  • (00:40:27 ) Inside Google’s Investment in the A.I. Start-Up Anthropic
  
  
  • (00:43:26 ) Meta is reportedly testing in-house chips for AI training
  
  
  • (00:46:48 ) Elon Musk's xAI buys 1 million sq ft site for second Memphis data center
  
  
  • (00:50:02 ) Superintelligence startup Reflection AI launches with $130M in funding
  
  
  
  

• Projects & Open Source

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  • (00:53:11 ) Google calls Gemma 3 the most powerful AI model you can run on one GPU
  
  
  • (00:58:18 ) Sesame, the startup behind the viral virtual assistant Maya, releases its base AI model
  
  
  • (01:01:13 ) Reka AI Open Sourced Reka Flash 3: A 21B General-Purpose Reasoning Model that was Trained from Scratch
  
  
  • (01:04:19 ) Open-Sora 2.0: Training a Commercial-Level Video Generation Model in $200k
  
  
  
  

• Research & Advancements

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  • (01:06:25 ) Google’s Gemini Robotics AI Model Reaches Into the Physical World
  
  
  • (01:14:33 ) Optimizing Test-Time Compute via Meta Reinforcement Fine-Tuning
  
  
  • (01:23:29 ) Deep Research System Card
  
  
  • (01:29:50 ) Claude 3.7 Sonnet System Card
  
  
  
  

• Policy & Safety

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  • (01:33:24 ) Detecting misbehavior in frontier reasoning models
  
  
  • (01:39:30 ) China tells its AI leaders to avoid US travel over security concerns, WSJ reports
  
  
  
  

• (01:43:48 ) Outro