Our 213nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Recorded on 06/21/2025
Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.
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In this episode:
- Midjourney launches its first AI video generation model, moving from text-to-image to video with a subscription model offering up to 21-second clips, highlighting the affordability and growing capabilities in AI video generation.
- Google's Gemini AI family updates include high-efficiency models for cost-effective workloads, and new enhancements in Google's search function now allow for voice interactions.
- The introduction of two new benchmarks, Live Code Bench Pro and Abstention Bench, aiming to test and improve the problem-solving and abstention capabilities of reasoning models, revealing current limitations.
- OpenAI wins a $200 million US defense contract to support various aspects of the Department of Defense, reflecting growing collaborations between tech companies and government for AI applications.
Timestamps + Links:
- (00:00:10) Intro / Banter
- (00:01:32) News Preview
- Tools & Apps
- (00:02:12) Midjourney launches its first AI video generation model, V1
- (00:05:52) Google’s Gemini AI family updated with stable 2.5 Pro, super-efficient 2.5 Flash-Lite
- (00:07:59) Google’s AI Mode can now have back-and-forth voice conversations
- (00:10:13) YouTube to Add Google’s Veo 3 to Shorts in Move That Could Turbocharge AI on the Video Platform
- Applications & Business
- (00:11:10) The ‘OpenAI Files’ will help you understand how Sam Altman’s company works
- (00:12:29) OpenAI drops Scale AI as a data provider following Meta deal
- (00:13:28) Amazon’s Zoox opens its first major robotaxi production facility
- Projects & Open Source
- (00:15:20) LiveCodeBench Pro: How Do Olympiad Medalists Judge LLMs in Competitive Programming?
- (00:19:45) AbstentionBench: Reasoning LLMs Fail on Unanswerable Questions
- (00:22:49) MiniMax-M1: Scaling Test-Time Compute Efficiently with Lightning Attention
- Research & Advancements
- Policy & Safety
- (00:28:07) Universal Jailbreak Suffixes Are Strong Attention Hijackers
- (00:30:52) OpenAI found features in AI models that correspond to different ‘personas’
- (00:33:25) OpenAI wins $200 million U.S. defense contract
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