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Our 201st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Recorded on 03/02/2025
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In this episode:
- The release of GPT-4.5 from OpenAI, Anthropic's Claude 3.7, and Grok 3 from XAI, comparing their features, costs, and capabilities.
- Discussion on new tools and applications including Sesame's new voice assistant and Google's AI coding assistant, Gemini Code Assist, highlighting their unique benefits.
- OpenAI's continued user growth despite competition, pricing models for Google's text-to-video platform, and HP acquiring and shutting down Humane's AI pin.
- Insights into new research on alignment and specification gaming in LLMs, including papers on fine-tuning causing broad misalignment and Google's multi-agent system for scientific collaboration.
Timestamps + Links:
• () Intro / Banter
• () News Preview
• Tools & Apps
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• () OpenAI announces GPT-4.5, warns it’s not a frontier AI model (theverge.com/news/620021/openai-gpt-4-5-orion-…)
• () Anthropic launches a new AI model that ‘thinks’ as long as you want (techcrunch.com/2025/02/24/anthropic-launches-a…)
• () New Grok 3 release tops LLM leaderboards (arstechnica.com/ai/2025/02/new-grok-3-release-…)
• () Sesame is the first voice assistant I’ve ever wanted to talk to more than once (theverge.com/news/621022/sesame-voice-assistan…)
• () Google launches a free AI coding assistant with very high usage caps (techcrunch.com/2025/02/25/google-launches-a-fr…)
• () Rabbit shows off the AI agent it should have launched with (theverge.com/news/615990/rabbit-ai-agent-demon…)
• () Mistral’s Le Chat tops 1M downloads in just 14 days (techcrunch.com/2025/02/19/mistrals-le-chat-top…)
• Applications & Business
• () OpenAI Tops 400 Million Users Despite DeepSeek’s Emergence (cnbc.com/2025/02/20/openai-tops-400-million-us…)
• () Google’s new AI video model Veo 2 will cost 50 cents per second (techcrunch.com/2025/02/23/googles-new-ai-video…)
• () HP is buying Humane and shutting down the AI Pin (theverge.com/news/614883/humane-ai-hp-acquisit…)
• Projects & Open Source
• () Microsoft launches next-gen Phi AI models. (theverge.com/news/620177/microsoft-phi-4-ai-mo…)
• () OpenAI introduces SWE-Lancer: A Benchmark for Evaluating Model Performance on Real-World Freelance Software Engineering Work (marktechpost.com/2025/02/17/openai-introduces-…)
• () SWE-Bench+: Enhanced Coding Benchmark for LLMs (arxiv.org/abs/2410.06992v2)
• Research & Advancements
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• () Towards an AI co-scientist (arxiv.org/abs/2502.18864)
• () Magma: A Foundation Model for Multimodal AI Agents (arxiv.org/abs/2502.13130v1)
• Policy & Safety
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• () Demonstrating specification gaming in reasoning models (arxiv.org/abs/2502.13295)
• () Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs (arxiv.org/abs/2502.17424)
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