#203 - Gemini Image Gen, Ascend 910C, Gemma 3, Gemini Robotics

Our 203rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Recorded on 03/14/2025

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In this episode:

• OpenAI's new 'deep research' feature has raised concerns about cybersecurity and the potential misuse of AI models for bio-weapons and autonomous capabilities, prompting new safety and governance measures.

• Google's extensive $3 billion investment in Anthropic is revealed, aligning with their AI strategy and reinforcing the importance of multiple technology partnerships.

• Huawei's advancements in the AI chip industry are highlighted, with significant progress in producing chips comparable to Nvidia's H100, despite export control challenges.

• China's recent directive discourages AI executives from traveling to the US, reflecting heightened security concerns and potentially signaling a more adversarial stance in the AI race.

Timestamps + Links:

• (00:00:00) Intro / Banter

• (00:01:30) News Preview

• Tools & Apps

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• (00:02:30) OpenAI launches new tools to help businesses build AI agents (techcrunch.com/2025/03/11/openai-launches-new-…)

• (00:08:50) You can now test Gemini 2.0 Flash’s native image output (9to5google.com/2025/03/12/gemini-2-0-flash-nat…)

• (00:13:32) Waymo is now offering 24/7 robotaxi rides in Silicon Valley (theverge.com/news/627619/waymo-silicon-valley-…)

• (00:17:19) Moonvalley releases a video generator it claims was trained on licensed content (techcrunch.com/2025/03/12/moonvalley-releases-…)

• (00:21:11) Snap introduces AI Video Lenses powered by its in-house generative model (techcrunch.com/2025/03/12/snap-introduces-ai-v…)

• (00:23:37) Sudowrite Launches Muse AI Model That Can Generate Narrative-Driven Fiction (gadgets360.com/ai/news/sudowrite-muse-ai-model…)

• Applications & Business

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• (00:27:48) In another chess move with Microsoft, OpenAI is pouring $12B into CoreWeave (techcrunch.com/2025/03/10/in-another-chess-mov…)

• (00:30:54) Huawei’s Ascend 910C Takes on NVIDIA as China’s AI Race Heats Up: More Alleged Details (trendforce.com/news/2025/03/13/news-huaweis-as…)

• (00:36:26) Huawei reportedly acquired two million Ascend 910 AI chips from TSMC last year through shell companies (tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-inte…)

• (00:40:27) Inside Google’s Investment in the A.I. Start-Up Anthropic (nytimes.com/2025/03/11/technology/google-inves…)

• (00:43:26) Meta is reportedly testing in-house chips for AI training (techcrunch.com/2025/03/11/meta-is-reportedly-t…)

• (00:46:48) Elon Musk's xAI buys 1 million sq ft site for second Memphis data center (datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/elon-musks-xai-…)

• (00:50:02) Superintelligence startup Reflection AI launches with $130M in funding (siliconangle.com/2025/03/07/superintelligence-…)

• Projects & Open Source

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• (00:53:11) Google calls Gemma 3 the most powerful AI model you can run on one GPU (theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/627968…)

• (00:58:18) Sesame, the startup behind the viral virtual assistant Maya, releases its base AI model (techcrunch.com/2025/03/13/sesame-the-startup-b…)

• (01:01:13) Reka AI Open Sourced Reka Flash 3: A 21B General-Purpose Reasoning Model that was Trained from Scratch (marktechpost.com/2025/03/11/reka-ai-open-sourc…)

• (01:04:19) Open-Sora 2.0: Training a Commercial-Level Video Generation Model in $200k (arxiv.org/abs/2503.09642)

• Research & Advancements

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• (01:06:25) Google’s Gemini Robotics AI Model Reaches Into the Physical World (deepmind.google/discover/blog/gemini-robotics-…)

• (01:14:33) Optimizing Test-Time Compute via Meta Reinforcement Fine-Tuning (arxiv.org/abs/2503.07572)

• (01:23:29) Deep Research System Card (cdn.openai.com/deep-research-system-card.pdf)

• (01:29:50) Claude 3.7 Sonnet System Card (assets.anthropic.com/m/785e231869ea8b3b/origin…)

• Policy & Safety

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• (01:33:24) Detecting misbehavior in frontier reasoning models (openai.com/index/chain-of-thought-monitoring)

• (01:39:30) China tells its AI leaders to avoid US travel over security concerns, WSJ reports (reuters.com/world/china-tells-its-ai-leaders-a…)

• (01:43:48) Outro

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