#172 - Claude and Gemini updates, Gemma 2, GPT-4 Critic

Our 172nd 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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• (00:00:00) Intro / Banter

• Tools & Apps

• (00:03:02) Anthropic Debuts Collaboration Tools for Claude AI Assistant (pymnts.com/artificial-intelligence-2/2024/anth…)

• (00:08:32) Google rolls out Gemini side panels for Gmail and other Workspace apps (engadget.com/google-rolls-out-gemini-side-pane…)

• (00:12:30) OpenAI delays rolling out its 'Voice Mode' to July (channelnewsasia.com/business/openai-delays-rol…)

• (00:15:40) OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Mac is now available to all users (arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/openais-chatgp…)

• (00:17:27) Waymo ditches the waitlist and opens up its robotaxis to everyone in San Francisco (theverge.com/2024/6/25/24184814/waymo-waitlist…)

• (00:18:53) Figma announces big redesign with AI (theverge.com/2024/6/26/24183730/figma-ai-tools…)

• Applications & Business

• (00:21:37) Meet Sohu: The World’s First Transformer Specialized Chip ASIC (marktechpost.com/2024/06/26/meet-sohu-the-worl…)

• (00:29:42) Huawei Has Reportedly Invested Billions In An R&D Facility That Will Allow It To Develop Advanced Chipmaking Machinery Similar To ASML & Others (wccftech.com/huawei-invested-billions-in-rd-fa…)

• (00:32:17) China's ByteDance working with Broadcom to develop advanced AI chip, sources say (theedgemalaysia.com/node/716470)

• (00:35:35) Chinese AI firms woo OpenAI users as US company plans API restrictions (channelnewsasia.com/business/chinese-ai-firms-…)

• (00:39:45) OpenAI walks back controversial stock sale policies, will treat current and former employees the same (cnbc.com/2024/06/24/openai-changes-secondary-s…)

• Projects & Open Source

• (00:43:42) Meta Large Language Model Compiler: Foundation Models of Compiler Optimization (ai.meta.com/research/publications/meta-large-l…)

• (00:47:54) Google’s Gemma 2 series launches with not one, but two lightweight model options—a 9B and 27B (venturebeat.com/ai/googles-gemma-2-series-laun…)

• (00:48:50) ESM3: Simulating 500 million years of evolution with a language model (evolutionaryscale.ai/blog/esm3-release)

• Research & Advancements

• (00:56:57) Finding GPT-4’s mistakes with GPT-4 (openai.com/index/finding-gpt4s-mistakes-with-g…)

• (01:03:30) Chinese-built ChatGLM exceeds GPT-4 Across Several Benchmarks (analyticsindiamag.com/chinese-built-chatglm-ex…)

• (01:07:15) Performances are plateauing, let's make the leaderboard steep again (huggingface.co/spaces/open-llm-leaderboard/blo…)

• (01:11:18) Structural mechanism of bridge RNA-guided recombination (nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07570-2)

• (01:15:01) Reconciling Kaplan and Chinchilla Scaling Laws (arxiv.org/abs/2406.12907)

• Policy & Safety

• (01:17:42) Safety Alignment Should Be Made More Than Just a Few Tokens Deep (arxiv.org/abs/2406.05946)

• (01:23:02) Y Combinator rallies start-ups against California’s AI safety bill (siliconrepublic.com/machines/y-combinator-cali…)

• (01:28:20) Pro-Kigali propagandists caught using Artificial Intelligence tools (africa-confidential.com/article/id/15040/Pro-K…)

• (01:21:40) Coordinated Disclosure of Dual-Use Capabilities: An Early Warning System for Advanced AI (iaps.ai/research/coordinated-disclosure)

• (01:35:08) Adversaries Can Misuse Combinations of Safe Models (arxiv.org/abs/2406.14595)

• Mitigating Skeleton Key, a new type of generative AI jailbreak technique (microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/06/26/m…)

• Synthetic Media & Art

• (01:39:35) Music labels sue AI music generators for copyright infringement (arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/06…)

• (01:42:43) YouTube is trying to make AI music deals with major record labels (theverge.com/2024/6/27/24187151/youtube-ai-mus…)

• (01:45:07) Toys ‘R’ Us Debuts First Video Ad Using Sora, OpenAI’s Text-to-Video Tool (hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/toys-r-…)

• (01:49:12) Outro + AI Song

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