Our 210th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Recorded on 05/23/2025

Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.

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In this episode:

• Google's Gemini diffusion technology showcases significant improvements in speed and efficiency for generating text, potentially revolutionizing the auto-regressive generation paradigm.


• Anthropic activates AI Safety Level 3 protections for Claude Opus 4, implementing robust measures such as bug bounties, synthetic jailbreak data, and preliminary egress bandwidth controls to mitigate bio-risk threats.


• OpenAI responds to the California Attorney General, refuting claims by the not-for-private-gain coalition and defending their controversial restructuring plans amidst ongoing criticism.


• Mistral delays the release of its Llama 4 Behemoth model due to training challenges, while Meta faces similar obstacles in rolling out its large-scale AI models, signaling difficulties in reaching frontier level performance.

Timestamps + Links:

• (00:00:00 ) Intro / Banter


• (00:01:43 ) News Preview


• Tools & Apps
  
  (00:02:58 ) Anthropic’s new Claude 4 AI models can reason over many steps
  
  (00:09:58 ) Google Unveils A.I. Chatbot, Signaling a New Era for Search
  
  (00:14:04 ) Google rolls out Project Mariner, its web-browsing AI agent
  
  (00:16:40 ) Veo 3 can generate videos — and soundtracks to go along with them
  
  (00:21:26 ) Imagen 4 is Google’s newest AI image generator
  
  (00:23:15 ) Google Meet is getting real-time speech translation
  
  (00:25:36 ) Google’s new Jules AI agent will help developers fix buggy code
  
  (00:26:43 ) GitHub’s new AI coding agent can fix bugs for you
  
  (00:28:50 ) Mistral’s new Devstral model was designed for coding


• Applications & Business
  
  (00:29:53 ) OpenAI Unites With Jony Ive in $6.5 Billion Deal to Create A.I. Devices
  
  (00:36:10 ) OpenAI’s planned data center in Abu Dhabi would be bigger than Monaco
  
  (00:41:18 ) LM Arena, the organization behind popular AI leaderboards, lands $100M
  
  (00:45:21 ) Nvidia CEO says next chip after H20 for China won't be from Hopper series
  
  (00:46:39 ) Google’s Gemini AI app has 400M monthly active users
  
  (00:51:15 ) AI Servers: End demand intact, but rising gap between upstream build and system production (2025.5.18)
  
  Projects & Open Source
  
  (00:53:46 ) Meta Is Delaying the Rollout of Its Flagship AI Model


• Research & Advancements
  
  (00:57:53 ) Gemini Diffusion
  
  (01:03:07 ) Chain-of-Model Learning for Language Model
  
  (01:09:16 ) Seek in the Dark: Reasoning via Test-Time Instance-Level Policy Gradient in Latent Space
  
  (01:15:38 ) Two Experts Are All You Need for Steering Thinking: Reinforcing Cognitive Effort in MoE Reasoning Models Without Additional Training
  
  (01:20:16 ) Lessons from Defending Gemini Against Indirect Prompt Injections
  
  (01:23:35 ) How Fast Can Algorithms Advance Capabilities?
  
  (01:30:20 ) Reinforcement Learning Finetunes Small Subnetworks in Large Language Models


• Policy & Safety


• (01:31:12 ) Exclusive: What OpenAI Told California's Attorney General


• (01:38:25 ) Activating AI Safety Level 3 Protections