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Our 204th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Recorded on 03/21/2025
Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov (twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (twitter.com/jeremiecharris).
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In this episode:
• Baidu launched two new multimodal models, Ernie 4.5 and Ernie X1, boasting competitive pricing and capabilities compared to Western counterparts like GPT-4.5 and DeepSeek R1.
• OpenAI introduced new audio models, including impressive speech-to-text and text-to-speech systems, and added O1 Pro to their developer API at high costs, reflecting efforts for more profitability.
• Nvidia and Apple announced significant hardware advancements, including Nvidia's future GPU plans and Apple's new Mac Studio offering that can run DeepSeek R1.
• DeepSeek employees are facing travel restrictions, suggesting China is treating its AI development with increased secrecy and urgency, emphasizing a wartime footing in AI competition.
Timestamps + Links:
• () Intro / Banter
• () News Preview
• Tools & Apps
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• () Baidu launches two new versions of its AI model Ernie (techcrunch.com/2025/03/16/baidu-launches-two-n…)
• () OpenAI Unveils New Audio Models to Make AI Agents Sound More Human Than Ever (maginative.com/article/openai-unveils-new-audi…)
• () OpenAI’s o1-pro is the company’s most expensive AI model yet (techcrunch.com/2025/03/19/openais-o1-pro-is-it…)
• () Google brings a ‘canvas’ feature to Gemini, plus Audio Overview (techcrunch.com/2025/03/18/google-brings-a-canv…)
• () Anthropic adds web search to its Claude chatbot (techcrunch.com/2025/03/20/anthropic-adds-web-s…)
• () xAI launches an API for generating images (techcrunch.com/2025/03/19/xai-launches-an-api-…)
• Applications & Business
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• () Nvidia announces Rubin GPUs in 2026, Rubin Ultra in 2027, Feynman also added to roadmap (tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidia-ann…)
• () M3 Ultra Runs DeepSeek R1 With 671 Billion Parameters Using 448GB Of Unified Memory, Delivering High Bandwidth Performance At Under 200W Power Consumption, With No Need For A Multi-GPU Setup (wccftech.com/m3-ultra-chip-handles-deepseek-r1…)
• () Intel reaches 'exciting milestone' for 18A 1.8nm-class wafers with first run at Arizona fab (tomshardware.com/tech-industry/intel-reaches-e…)
• () Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, acquires a generative AI video startup (techcrunch.com/2025/03/17/elon-musks-ai-compan…)
• () Tencent Reportedly Makes Massive NVIDIA H20 Chip Purchase for WeChat’s DeepSeek Integration (trendforce.com/news/2025/03/14/news-tencent-re…)
• Projects & Open Source
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• () Anthropic’s Not-So-Secret Weapon That’s Giving Agents a Boost (theinformation.com/articles/anthropics-secret-…)
• () Mistral AI drops new open-source model that outperforms GPT-4o Mini with fraction of parameters (venturebeat.com/ai/mistral-ai-drops-new-open-s…)
• () EXAONE Deep: Reasoning Enhanced Language Models (arxiv.org/abs/2503.12524v1)
• Research & Advancements
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• () Sample, Scrutinize and Scale: Effective Inference-Time Search by Scaling Verification (arxiv.org/abs/2502.01839)
• () Block Diffusion: Interpolating Between Autoregressive and Diffusion Language Models (arxiv.org/abs/2503.09573v1)
• () Communication-Efficient Language Model Training Scales Reliably and Robustly: Scaling Laws for DiLoCo (arxiv.org/abs/2503.09799)
• () Transformers without Normalization (arxiv.org/abs/2503.10622v1)
• () Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks (arxiv.org/abs/2503.14499)
• () HCAST: Human-Calibrated Autonomy Software Tasks (metr.org/hcast.pdf)
• Policy & Safety
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• () Announcing Zochi, an Intology Project (intology.ai/blog/announcing-zochi-intology)
• () DeepSeek, a National Treasure in China, is Now Being Closely Guarded (theinformation.com/articles/deepseek-national-…)
• () Claude Sonnet 3.7 (often) knows when it’s in alignment evaluations (apolloresearch.ai/blog/claude-sonnet-37-often-…)
• Synthetic Media & Art
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• () US appeals court rejects copyrights for AI-generated art lacking 'human' creator (reuters.com/world/us/us-appeals-court-rejects-…)
• () Trump urged by Ben Stiller, Paul McCartney and hundreds of stars to protect AI copyright rules (foxnews.com/entertainment/trump-urged-ben-stil…)
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