#206 - Llama 4, Nova Act, xAI buys X, PaperBench
Update: 2025-04-09
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Our 206th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Recorded on 04/07/2025
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In this episode:
- Meta releases LlAMA-4, a series of advanced large language models, sparking debate on performance and release timing, with models featuring up to 2 trillion parameters for different configurations and applications.
- Amazon's AGI Lab debuts NOVA Act, an AI agent for web browser control, boasting competitive benchmarking against OpenAI's and Anthropic's best agents.
- OpenAI's image generation capabilities and ongoing financing developments, notably a $40 billion funding round led by SoftBank, highlight significant advancements and strategic shifts in the tech giant’s operations.
Timestamps + Links:
- (00:00:00 ) Intro / Banter
Tools & Apps
- (00:01:46 ) Meta releases Llama 4, a new crop of flagship AI models
- (00:13:55 ) Amazon unveils Nova Act, an AI agent that can control a web browser
- (00:17:06 ) Alibaba Preparing for Flagship AI Model Release as Soon as April
- (00:17:59 ) Runway releases an impressive new video-generating AI model
- (00:19:10 ) Adobe launches Premiere Pro’s generative AI video extender
- (00:20:54 ) OpenAI prepares reasoning slider and memory update for ChatGPT users
Applications & Business
- (00:21:28 ) Nvidia H20 Chips: $16 Billion Orders from ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent
- (00:24:45 ) Elon Musk sells X for $33 billion to his own AI startup company xAI
- (00:28:00 ) SoftBank dethroned Microsoft as OpenAI's largest investor, pushing the ChatGPT maker's market cap to $300 billion — but reportedly buried itself in debt
- (00:30:48 ) DeepMind is holding back release of AI research to give Google an edge
- (00:34:06 ) SMIC Is Rumored To Complete 5nm Chip Development By 2025; Costs Could Be Up To 50 Percent Higher Than TSMC’s Version Due To The Use Of Older-Generation Equipment
- (00:36:04 ) Google-backed Isomorphic Labs raises $600m to advance AI drug discovery
Research & Advancements
- (00:38:03 ) PaperBench: Evaluating AI's Ability to Replicate AI Research
- (00:43:50 ) Crossing the Reward Bridge: Expanding RL with Verifiable Rewards Across Diverse Domains
- (00:48:39 ) Inference-Time Scaling for Complex Tasks: Where We Stand and What Lies Ahead
- (00:54:34 ) Overtrained Language Models Are Harder to Fine-Tune
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