#197 - AI in Gmail+Docs, MiniMax-01, Titans, Transformer^2

Our 197th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Recorded on 01/17/2024

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In this episode:

- Google and Mistral sign deals with AP and AFP, respectively, to deliver up-to-date news through their AI platforms.

- ChatGPT introduces a tasks feature for reminders and to-dos, positioning itself more as a personal assistant.

- Synthesia raises $180 million to enhance its AI video platform for generating videos of human avatars.

- New U.S. guidelines restrict exporting AI chips to various countries, impacting Nvidia and other tech firms.

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Timestamps + Links:

• (00:00:00) Intro / Banter

• (00:04:29) News Preview

• (00:05:09) Response to listener comments

• (00:05:58) Sponsor Break

• Tools & Apps

• (00:07:01) Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free — but raising the price of Workspace (theverge.com/2025/1/15/24343794/google-workspa…)

• (00:07:52) Microsoft relaunches Copilot for business with free AI chat and pay-as-you-go agents (theverge.com/2025/1/15/24344214/microsoft-365-…)

• (00:12:36) Google signs deal with AP to deliver up-to-date news through its Gemini AI chatbot (apnews.com/article/google-gemini-ai-associated…)

• (00:18:08) Mistral signs deal with AFP to offer up-to-date answers in Le Chat (techcrunch.com/2025/01/16/mistral-signs-deal-w…)

• (00:18:45) ChatGPT can now handle reminders and to-dos (theverge.com/2025/1/14/24343528/openai-chatgpt…)

• Applications & Business

• (00:22:53) Palmer Luckey’s AI Defense Company Anduril Is Building a $1 Billion Plant in Ohio (gizmodo.com/palmer-luckeys-ai-defense-company-…)

• (00:28:36) OpenAI is bankrolling Axios’ expansion into four new markets (techcrunch.com/2025/01/15/openai-is-bankrollin…)

• (00:29:39) AI researcher François Chollet founds a new AI lab focused on AGI (techcrunch.com/2025/01/15/ai-researcher-franco…)

• (00:32:18) Nvidia-backed AI video platform Synthesia doubles valuation to $2.1 billion (cnbc.com/2025/01/15/ai-video-platform-synthesi…)

• (00:34:46) Anysphere Raises $105M in Series B (maginative.com/article/anysphere-raises-105m-f…)

• (00:40:14) Harvey Valuation of 3 Billion (bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-16/legal-a…)

• Projects & Open Source

• (00:46:12) MiniMax-01: Scaling Foundation Models with Lightning Attention (arxiv.org/abs/2501.08313v1)

• (00:51:16) MinMo: A Multimodal Large Language Model with Approximately 8B Parameters for Seamless Voice Interaction (marktechpost.com/2025/01/15/minmo-a-multimodal…)

• (00:53:01) HALoGEN: Fantastic LLM Hallucinations and Where to Find Them (arxiv.org/abs/2501.08292)

• Research & Advancements

• (00:57:03) Titans: Learning to Memorize at Test Time (arxiv.org/abs/2501.00663v1)

• (01:04:38) Transformer2: Self-adaptive LLMs (arxiv.org/abs/2501.06252)

• (01:08:15) Inference-Time Scaling for Diffusion Models beyond Scaling Denoising Steps (arxiv.org/abs/2501.09732)

• Policy & Safety

• (01:11:23) Biden administration proposes sweeping new restrictions on exporting AI chips (techcrunch.com/2025/01/13/biden-administration…)

• (01:13:56) Biden orders Energy, Defense departments to lease sites for AI data centers, clean energy generation (utilitydive.com/news/biden-doe-dod-lease-sites…)

• (01:15:00) OpenAI presents its preferred version of AI regulation in a new ‘blueprint’ (techcrunch.com/2025/01/13/openai-presents-its-…)

• (01:16:15) More teens report using ChatGPT for schoolwork, despite the tech’s faults (techcrunch.com/2025/01/15/more-teens-report-us…)

• Synthetic Media & Art

• (01:17:55) In AI copyright case, Zuckerberg turns to YouTube for his defense (techcrunch.com/2025/01/15/in-ai-copyright-case…)

• (01:19:53) Outro

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