#187 - Anthropic Agents, Mochi1, 3.4B data center, OpenAI's FAST image gen

Our 187th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, now with Jeremie co-hosting once again!

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Timestamps + Links:

• () Intro / Banter

• () Response to listener comments / corrections

• () Sponsor Read)

• Tools & Apps

• () Anthropic’s latest AI update can use a computer on its own (theverge.com/2024/10/22/24276822/anthopic-clau…)

• () AI video startup Genmo launches Mochi 1, an open source rival to Runway, Kling, and others (venturebeat.com/ai/video-ai-startup-genmo-laun…)

• () Canva has a shiny new text-to-image generator (theverge.com/2024/10/22/24276662/canva-ai-upda…)

• () Canvas Beta brings Remix, Extend, and Magic Fill to Ideogram users (testingcatalog.com/canvas-beta-brings-remix-ex…)

• () StabilityAI releases Stable Diffusion 3.5 (tomsguide.com/ai/stabilityai-releases-stable-d…)

• () Bringing Agentic Workflows into Inflection for Enterprise (inflection.ai/blog/agentic)

• Applications & Business

• () Crusoe’s $3.4B joint venture to build AI data center campus with up to 100,000 GPUs (siliconangle.com/2024/10/15/crusoe-3-4b-joint-…)

• () Anthropic reportedly in early talks to raise new funding on up to $40B valuation (theinformation.com/articles/openai-rival-anthr…)

• () Longtime policy researcher Miles Brundage leaves OpenAI (techcrunch.com/2024/10/23/longtime-policy-rese…)

• () NVIDIA’s Blackwell GB200 AI Servers Ready For Mass Deployment In December (wccftech.com/nvidia-blackwell-gb200-ai-servers…)

• () Foxconn building Nvidia superchip facility in Mexico, executives say (finance.yahoo.com/news/foxconn-says-building-w…)

• () xAI, Elon Musk’s AI startup, launches an API (techcrunch.com/2024/10/21/xai-elon-musks-ai-st…)

• Projects & Open Source

• () INTELLECT-1: The First Decentralized 10-Billion-Parameter AI Model Training (primeintellect.ai/blog/intellect-1)

• () Meta FAIR Releases Eight New AI Research Artifacts—Models, Datasets, and Tools to Inspire the AI Community (maginative.com/article/meta-fair-releases-eigh…)

• () Google DeepMind is making its AI text watermark open source (technologyreview.com/2024/10/23/1106105/google…)

• Research & Advancements

• () OpenAI researchers develop new model that speeds up media generation by 50X (venturebeat.com/ai/openai-researchers-develop-…)

• () How much AI compute is out there, and who owns it? (epochai.org/data/machine-learning-hardware)

• () Rewarding Progress: Scaling Automated Process Verifiers for LLM Reasoning (arxiv.org/abs/2410.08146)

• () Inference Scaling for Long-Context Retrieval Augmented Generation (arxiv.org/abs/2410.04343)

• Policy & Safety

• () Announcing our updated Responsible Scaling Policy (anthropic.com/news/announcing-our-updated-resp…)

• () Anthropic is testing AI’s capacity for sabotage (mashable.com/article/anthropic-ai-use-sabotage)

• () OpenAI asked US to approve energy-guzzling 5GW data centers, report says (arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/09/openai-ask…)

• () US Probes TSMC’s Dealings with Huawei (theinformation.com/articles/u-s-probes-tsmcs-d…)

• () TikTok owner ByteDance taps TSMC to make its own AI GPUs to stop relying on Nvidia — the company has reportedly spent over $2 billion on Nvidia AI GPUs (tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-inte…)

• () Outro

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#187 - Anthropic Agents, Mochi1, 3.4B data center, OpenAI's FAST image gen

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