#230 - 2025 Retrospective, Nvidia buys Groq, GLM 4.7, METR
Update: 2026-01-07
Description
Our 230th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Recorded on 01/02/2026
Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris
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In this episode:
- Nvidia's acquisition of AI chip startup Groq for $20 billion highlights a strategic move for enhanced inference technology in GPUs.
- New York's RAISE Act legislation aims to regulate AI safety, marking the second major AI safety bill in the US.
- The launch of GLM 4.7 by Zhipu AI marks a significant advancement in open-source AI models for coding.
- Evaluation of long-horizon AI agents raises concerns about the rising costs and efficiency of AI in performing extended tasks.
Timestamps:
- Tools & Apps
- (00:24:39 ) OpenAI bets big on audio as Silicon Valley declares war on screens | TechCrunch
- Applications & Business
- (00:26:39 ) Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq for about $20 billion, biggest deal
- (00:34:28 ) Exclusive | Meta Buys AI Startup Manus, Adding Millions of Paying Users - WSJ
- (00:38:05 ) Cursor continues acquisition spree with Graphite deal | TechCrunch
- (00:39:15 ) Micron Hikes CapEx to $20B with 2026 HBM Supply Fully Booked; HBM4 Ramps 2Q26
- (00:42:06 ) Chinese fabs are reportedly upgrading older ASML DUV lithography chipmaking machines — secondary channels and independent engineers used to soup up Twinscan NXT series
- Projects & Open Source
- (00:47:52 ) Z.AI launches GLM-4.7, new SOTA open-source model for coding
- (00:50:11 ) Evaluating AI’s ability to perform scientific research tasks
- Research & Advancements
- (00:54:32 ) Large Causal Models from Large Language Models
- (00:57:33 ) Universally Converging Representations of Matter Across Scientific Foundation Models
- (01:02:11 ) META-RL INDUCES EXPLORATION IN LANGUAGE AGENTS
- (01:07:16 ) Are the Costs of AI Agents Also Rising Exponentially?
- (01:11:17 ) METR eval for Opus 4.5
- (01:16:19 ) How to game the METR plot
- Policy & Safety
- (01:17:24 ) New York governor Kathy Hochul signs RAISE Act to regulate AI safety | TechCrunch
- (01:20:40 ) Activation Oracles: Training and Evaluating LLMs as General-Purpose Activation Explainers
- (01:26:46 ) Monitoring Monitorability
- (01:32:07 ) Sam Altman is hiring someone to worry about the dangers of AI | The Verge
- (01:33:38 ) X users asking Grok to put this girl in bikini, Grok is happy obliging - India Today
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