#183 - OpenAI o1, Adobe vid gen, Reflection 70B, DeepMind AlphaProteo

Our 183rd 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).

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 (theverge.com/2024/9/12/24242439/openai-o1-mode…)

• (00:22:06) Adobe says video generation is coming to Firefly this year (techcrunch.com/2024/09/11/adobe-says-video-gen…)

• (00:25:27) Anthropic launches Claude Enterprise with more security, admin controls (ciodive.com/news/anthropic-claude-enterprise-p…)

• (00:27:55) Tell Replit's AI Agent Your App Idea, and It'll Code and Deploy It for You (maginative.com/article/tell-replits-ai-agent-y…)

• Applications & Business
• (00:31:42) OpenAI Fundraising Set to Vault Startup’s Valuation to $150 Billion (bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-11/openai-…)

• (00:37:03) OpenAI Hits 1 Million Paid Users For Business Versions of ChatGPT (bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-05/openai-…)

• (00:39:59) TSMC Arizona achieves production yields similar to those at its fabs in Taiwan, says report (tomshardware.com/tech-industry/tsmc-arizona-ac…)

• (00:45:14) Japan’s Sakana AI partners Nvidia for research, raises $100M (cointelegraph.com/news/sakana-ai-nvidia-partne…)

• Projects & Open Source
• (00:47:31) The fable of Reflection 70B (ignorance.ai/p/the-fable-of-reflection-70b)

• (00:53:08) DataGemma: Using real-world data to address AI hallucinations (blog.google/technology/ai/google-datagemma-ai-…)

• (00:56:31) DeepSeek-V2.5 wins praise as the new, true open source AI model leader (venturebeat.com/ai/deepseek-v2-5-wins-praise-a…)

• Research & Advancements
• (01:01:35) Google DeepMind Launches AlphaProteo , an AI Model for Generating Proteins (analyticsindiamag.com/ai-news-updates/google-d…)

• (01:08:27) Synthetic continued pretraining (arxiv.org/abs/2409.07431)

• (01:16:55) A Large-Scale Human Study with 100+ NLP Researchers (arxiv.org/abs/2409.04109)

• (01:23:55) Superhuman Automated Forecasting (safe.ai/blog/forecasting)

• Policy & Safety
• (01:28:05) OpenAI o1 System Card (cdn.openai.com/o1-system-card.pdf)

• (01:36:58) US roll outs new export controls aimed at restricting China’s chip industry (aljazeera.com/economy/2024/9/6/usroll-outs-new…)

• (01:39:50) Employee Call for Governor Newsom to Sign SB 1047 (calltolead.org)

• (01:42:34) Taylor Swift says AI version of herself falsely endorsing Trump 'conjured up my fears' (the-express.com/entertainment/celebrity-news/1…)

• Synthetic Media & Art
• (01:44:42) YouTube is developing AI detection tools for music and faces, plus creator controls for AI training (techcrunch.com/2024/09/05/youtube-is-developin…)

• (01:45:08) Outro

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