Our 157th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Timestamps + links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- Tools & Apps
- (00:04:55) Google apologizes for ‘missing the mark’ after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis
- (00:15:07) Stability announces Stable Diffusion 3, a next-gen AI image generator
- (00:19:04) Mistral AI releases new model to rival GPT-4 and its own chat assistant
- (00:24:56) Windows just got its own Magic Eraser to AI-modify your photos
- (00:25:47) Adobe previews new cutting-edge generative AI tools for crafting and editing custom audio
- (00:27:47) AI video wars heat up as Pika adds Lip Sync powered by ElevenLabs
- Applications & Business
- (00:30:09) Microsoft Strikes Deal with France’s Mistral AI
- (00:33:45) Figure Raises $675M at $2.6B Valuation and Signs Collaboration Agreement with OpenAI
- (00:37:05) Nvidia posts record revenue up 265% on booming AI business
- (00:39:54) MediaTek’s latest chipsets are now ‘optimized’ for Gemini Nano
- (00:41:28) Tumblr’s owner is striking deals with OpenAI and Midjourney for training data, says report
- (00:43:45) Mistral AI models coming soon to Amazon Bedrock
- Projects & Open Source
- (00:44:34) Generative AI Startup Mistral Releases Free ‘Open-Source’ 7.3B Parameter LLM
- (00:46:57) Google Delves Deeper Into Open Source with Launch of Gemma AI Model
- (00:51:10) Microsoft releases its internal generative AI red teaming tool to the public
- (00:54:25) Introducing Phind-70B – closing the code quality gap with GPT-4 Turbo while running 4x faster
- Research & Advancements
- (00:57:51) Genie: Generative Interactive Environments
- (01:07:08) Griffin: Mixing Gated Linear Recur
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