#162 - Udio Song AI, TPU v5, Mixtral 8x22, Mixture-of-Depths, Musicians sign open letter

Our 162nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Timestamps + links:

• Tools & Apps

• () AI-Music Arms Race: Meet Udio, the Other ChatGPT for Music (rollingstone.com/music/music-features/udio-ai-…)

• () Anthropic launches external tool use for Claude AI, enabling stock ticker integrations and more (cointelegraph.com/news/anthropic-artificial-in…)

• () Building LLMs for Code Repair (blog.replit.com/code-repair)

• () Early Reviews of Humane AI Pin Aren’t Impressed (gizmodo.com/review-roundup-humane-pin-1851403020)

• () Microsoft 365’s Copilot gets a GPT-4 Turbo upgrade and improved image generation (theverge.com/2024/4/3/24119784/microsoft-365-c…)

• () AI editing tools are coming to all Google Photos users (blog.google/products/photos/google-photos-edit…)

• Applications & Business

• () Google announces the Cloud TPU v5p, its most powerful AI accelerator yet (techcrunch.com/2023/12/06/google-announces-the…)

• () Meta unveils its newest custom AI chip as it races to catch up (techcrunch.com/2024/04/10/meta-unveils-its-new…)

• () Intel Unveils New AI Accelerator in Bid to Challenge Nvidia (ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/intel-unveils-ai-acc…)

• () Adobe Is Buying Videos for $3 Per Minute to Build AI Model (bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-10/adobe-i…)

• () OpenAI transcribed over a million hours of YouTube videos to train GPT-4 (theverge.com/2024/4/6/24122915/openai-youtube-…)

• () Waymo will launch paid robotaxi service in Los Angeles on Wednesday (nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/waymo-will-launch-…)

• () OpenAI removes Sam Altman's ownership of its Startup Fund (reuters.com/technology/openai-removes-sam-altm…)

• Projects & Open Source

• () Mistral AI Stuns With Surprise Launch of New Mixtral 8x22B Model (analyticsindiamag.com/mistral-ai-stuns-with-su…)

• () Google updates its Gemma AI model family with variants for coding and research (siliconangle.com/2024/04/10/google-updates-gem…)

• () Aurora-M: The First Open Source Multilingual Language Model Red-teamed according to the U.S. Executive Order (arxiv.org/abs/2404.00399v1)

• Research & Advancements

• () Mixture-of-Depths: Dynamically allocating compute in transformer-based language models (arxiv.org/abs/2404.02258v1)

• () Leave No Context Behind: Efficient Infinite Context Transformers with Infini-attention (arxiv.org/abs/2404.07143)

• () Octopus v2: On-device language model for super agent (arxiv.org/abs/2404.01744v1)

• () Bigger is not Always Better: Scaling Properties of Latent Diffusion Models (arxiv.org/abs/2404.01367v1)

• Policy & Safety

• () Schiff unveils AI training transparency measure (thehill.com/homenews/house/4583318-schiff-unve…)

• () Linwei Ding was a Google software engineer. He was also a prolific thief of trade secrets, say prosecutors. (nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/linwei-ding-google…)

• () Responsible Reporting for Frontier AI Development (arxiv.org/pdf/2404.02675.pdf)

• () US govt wants to talk to tech companies about AI electricity demands — eyes nuclear fusion and fission (tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-inte…)

• () Washington state judge blocks use of AI-enhanced video as evidence in possible first-of-its-kind ruling (nbcnews.com/news/us-news/washington-state-judg…)

• () Trudeau announces $2.4 billion for AI-related investments (cbc.ca/news/politics/federal-government-ai-inv…)

• Synthetic Media & Art

• () Billie Eilish, Pearl Jam, Nicki Minaj Among 200 Artists Calling for Responsible AI Music Practices (billboard.com/business/tech/open-letter-ai-mus…)

• Fun!

• () OpenAI's Sora just made its first music video and it's like a psychedelic trip (techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligenc…)

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