#176 - BIG WEEK for OSS! SearchGPT, Lamma 3.1 405B, Mistral Large 2

Our 176th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

NOTE: apologies for this episode coming out about a week late, things got in the way of editing it...

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• () Intro Song

• () Intro Banter

• Tools & Apps
• () OpenAI announces SearchGPT, its AI-powered search engine (theverge.com/2024/7/25/24205701/openai-searchg…)

• () Google gives free Gemini users access to its faster, lighter 1.5 Flash AI model (engadget.com/google-gives-free-gemini-users-ac…)

• () X launches underwhelming Grok-powered ‘More About This Account’ feature (techcrunch.com/2024/07/24/x-launches-underwhel…)

• () Kuaishou Launches Full Beta Testing for 'Kling AI' to Global Users, Elevates Model Capabilities (wdtn.com/business/press-releases/cision/202407…)

• () Adobe rolls out more generative AI features to Illustrator and Photoshop (theverge.com/2024/7/23/24204231/adobe-photosho…)

• () Meta AI gets new ‘Imagine me’ selfie feature (techcrunch.com/2024/07/23/meta-ai-gets-new-sel…)

• Projects & Open Source
• () Meta releases open-source AI model it says rivals OpenAI, Google tech (washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/07/23/meta-…)

• () Mistral AI Unveils Mistral Large 2, Beats Llama 3.1 on Code and Math (analyticsindiamag.com/ai-news-updates/mistral-…)

• () Groq’s open-source Llama AI model tops leaderboard, outperforming GPT-4o and Claude in function calling (venturebeat.com/ai/groq-open-source-llama-ai-m…)

• () Apple shows off open AI prowess: new models outperform Mistral and Hugging Face offerings (venturebeat.com/ai/apple-shows-off-open-ai-pro…)

• Applications & Business
• () Elon Musk wants Tesla to invest $5 billion into his newest startup, xAI — if shareholders approve (cnbc.com/2024/07/24/elon-musk-wants-tesla-to-i…)

• () Nvidia said to be prepping Blackwell GPUs for Chinese market (theregister.com/2024/07/22/nvidia_said_to_be_p…)

• () Toronto AI company Cohere to indemnify customers who are sued for any copyright violations (theglobeandmail.com/business/article-cohere-ge…)

• () AI startup Cohere raises US$500-million, valuing company at US$5.5-billion (theglobeandmail.com/business/article-ai-startu…)

• Research & Advancements
• () AI achieves silver-medal standard solving International Mathematical Olympiad problems (deepmind.google/discover/blog/ai-solves-imo-pr…)

• () A Multimodal Automated Interpretability Agent (arxiv.org/abs/2404.14394)

• () MINT-1T: Scaling Open-Source Multimodal Data by 10x: A Multimodal Dataset with One Trillion Tokens (arxiv.org/abs/2406.11271v2)

• Policy & Safety
• () Improving Model Safety Behavior with Rule-Based Rewards (openai.com/index/improving-model-safety-behavi…)

• () Senators demand OpenAI detail efforts to make its AI safe (washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/07/23/opena…)

• () OpenAI reassigns top AI safety executive Aleksandr Madry to role focused on AI reasoning (cnbc.com/2024/07/23/openai-removes-ai-safety-e…)

• () As new tech threatens jobs, Silicon Valley promotes no-strings cash aid (npr.org/2024/07/19/nx-s1-5035263/basic-income-…)

• () Democratic senators seek to reverse Supreme Court ruling that restricts federal agency power (nbcnews.com/politics/congress/democratic-bill-…)

• Synthetic Media & Art
• () Video game performers will go on strike over artificial intelligence concerns (apnews.com/article/sagaftra-video-game-perform…)

• () Outro

• () AI Song

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