#171 - Apple Intelligence, Dream Machine, SSI Inc

Our 171st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (twitter.com/jeremiecharris)

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Timestamps + Links:

• () Intro / Banter

• Tools & Apps
• () Apple Intelligence: every new AI feature coming to the iPhone and Mac (theverge.com/2024/6/10/24175405/wwdc-apple-ai-…)

• () ‘We don’t need Sora anymore’: Luma’s new AI video generator Dream Machine slammed with traffic after debut (venturebeat.com/ai/we-dont-need-sora-anymore-l…)

• () Runway unveils new hyper realistic AI video model Gen-3 Alpha, capable of 10-second-long clips (venturebeat.com/ai/runway-unveils-new-hyper-re…)

• () Leonardo AI image generator adds new video mode — here’s how it works (sg.news.yahoo.com/leonardo-ai-image-generator-…)

• () Anthropic just dropped Claude 3.5 Sonnet with better vision and a sense of humor (tomsguide.com/ai/anthropic-just-dropped-claude…)

• Applications & Business
• ( ) Sam Altman might reportedly turn OpenAI into a regular for-profit company (windowscentral.com/software-apps/sam-altman-mi…)

• () Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross, Daniel Levy launch Safe Superintelligence Inc. (theverge.com/2024/6/19/24181870/openai-former-…)

• () OpenAI welcomes Sarah Friar (CFO) and Kevin Weil (CPO) (openai.com/index/openai-welcomes-cfo-cpo/?utm_…)

• () Report: OpenAI Doubled Annualized Revenue in 6 Months (pymnts.com/artificial-intelligence-2/2024/repo…)

• () AI startup Adept is in deal talks with Microsoft (fortune.com/2024/06/18/ai-startup-adept-micros…)

• () Mistral closes €600m at €5.8bn valuation with new lead investor (sifted.eu/articles/mistral-468m-round-news)

• () Huawei Claims Ascend 910B AI Chip Manages To Surpass NVIDIA’s A100, A Crucial Alternative For China (wccftech.com/huawei-ascend-910b-ai-chip-surpas…)

• () Astrocade raises $12M for AI-based social gaming platform (venturebeat.com/games/astrocade-raises-12m-for…)

• Projects & Open Source
• () Announcing the Open Release of Stable Diffusion 3 Medium, Our Most Sophisticated Image Generation Model to Date (stability.ai/news/stable-diffusion-3-medium)

• () Meta releases flurry of new AI models for audio, text and watermarking (venturebeat.com/ai/meta-releases-flurry-of-new…)

• () ElevenLabs unveils open-source creator tool for adding sound effects to videos (venturebeat.com/ai/elevenlabs-unveils-open-sou…)

• Research & Advancements
• () Samba: Simple Hybrid State Space Models for Efficient Unlimited Context Language Modeling (arxiv.org/abs/2406.07522v1)

• () Improve Mathematical Reasoning in Language Models by Automated Process Supervision (arxiv.org/pdf/2406.06592)

• () Introducing Lamini Memory Tuning: 95% LLM Accuracy, 10x Fewer Hallucinations (lamini.ai/blog/lamini-memory-tuning)

• () An Empirical Study of Mamba-based Language Models (arxiv.org/abs/2406.07887v1)

• () BERTs are Generative In-Context Learners (arxiv.org/abs/2406.04823v1)

• () SELFGOAL: Your Language Agents Already Know How to Achieve High-level Goals (arxiv.org/pdf/2406.04784)

• Policy & Safety
• () Sycophancy to subterfuge: Investigating reward tampering in language models (anthropic.com/research/reward-tampering)

• () Waymo issues software and mapping recall after robotaxi crashes into a telephone pole (theverge.com/2024/6/12/24175489/waymo-recall-t…)

• () Meta pauses AI models launch in Europe (ciso.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/grc/met…)

• () Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction (arxiv.org/pdf/2406.11717)

• Sycophancy to subterfuge: Investigating reward tampering in language models (anthropic.com/research/reward-tampering)

• () Huawei exec concerned over China’s inability to obtain 3.5nm chips, bemoans lack of advanced chipmaking tools (tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/…)

• Synthetic Media & Art
• () It Looked Like a Reliable News Site. It Was an A.I. Chop Shop. (nytimes.com/2024/06/06/technology/bnn-breaking…)

• () Adobe overhauls terms of service to say it won’t train AI on customers’ work (theverge.com/2024/6/10/24175416/adobe-overhaul…)

• () Buzzy AI Search Engine Perplexity Is Directly Ripping Off Content From News Outlets (forbes.com/sites/sarahemerson/2024/06/07/buzzy…)

• () Outro + AI Song

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