#183 - OpenAI o1, Adobe vid gen, Reflection 70B, DeepMind AlphaProteo
Last Week in AI
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Our 183rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris).
Note: once again, apologies from Andrey on this one coming out late. Starting with the next one we should be back to a regular(ish) release schedule.
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In this episode:
OpenAI's O1 and O1 mini models boast advanced reasoning and longer responses.
Adobe adds video generation to Firefly, Anthropic launches AI safety-focused Claude enterprise.
LLAMA3 8B excels with synthetic tokens, AI-generated ideas deemed more novel.
New AI forecasting bot competes with veteran human forecasters.
Timestamps + Links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
(00:02:38) Response to listener comments / corrections
Tools & Apps (00:04:00) OpenAI releases o1, its first model with ‘reasoning’ abilities)
(00:22:06) Adobe says video generation is coming to Firefly this year)
(00:25:27) Anthropic launches Claude Enterprise with more security, admin controls)
(00:27:55) Tell Replit's AI Agent Your App Idea, and It'll Code and Deploy It for You)
Applications & Business (00:31:42) OpenAI Fundraising Set to Vault Startup’s Valuation to $150 Billion)
(00:37:03) OpenAI Hits 1 Million Paid Users For Business Versions of ChatGPT)
(00:39:59) TSMC Arizona achieves production yields similar to those at its fabs in Taiwan, says report)
(00:45:14) Japan’s Sakana AI partners Nvidia for research, raises $100M)
Projects & Open Source (00:47:31) The fable of Reflection 70B)
(00:53:08) DataGemma: Using real-world data to address AI hallucinations)
(00:56:31) DeepSeek-V2.5 wins praise as the new, true open source AI model leader)
Research & Advancements (01:01:35) Google DeepMind Launches AlphaProteo , an AI Model for Generating Proteins )
(01:08:27) Synthetic continued pretraining)
(01:16:55) A Large-Scale Human Study with 100+ NLP Researchers)
(01:23:55) Superhuman Automated Forecasting)
Policy & Safety (01:28:05) OpenAI o1 System Card)
(01:36:58) US roll outs new export controls aimed at restricting China’s chip industry)
(01:39:50) Employee Call for Governor Newsom to Sign SB 1047)
(01:42:34) Taylor Swift says AI version of herself falsely endorsing Trump 'conjured up my fears')
Synthetic Media & Art (01:44:42) YouTube is developing AI detection tools for music and faces, plus creator controls for AI training)
(01:45:08) Outro