#169 - Google's Search Errors, OpenAI news & DRAMA, new leaderboards

Our 168th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Timestamps + Links:

• (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
• (00:02:55) Response to listener comments / corrections
• Tools & Apps
  • (00:04:33) Google’s A.I. Search Errors Cause a Furor Online
  • (00:10:56) Telegram gets an in-app Copilot bot
  • (00:13:13) Opera is adding Google's Gemini AI to its browser
  • (0016:13) Amazon plans to give Alexa an AI overhaul — and a monthly subscription price
  • (00:19:15) Microsoft Edge will translate and dub YouTube videos as you’re watching them
  • (00:21:12) Iyo thinks its gen AI earbuds can succeed where Humane and Rabbit stumbled
• Applications & Business
  • (00:24:57) PwC agrees deal to become OpenAI's first reseller and largest enterprise user
  • (00:30:07) Vox Media and The Atlantic sign content deals with OpenAI
  • (00:36:27) OpenAI launches programs making ChatGPT cheaper for schools and nonprofits
  • (00:40:03) Huawei patent reveals 3nm-class process technology plans — China continues to move forward despite US sanctions
  • (00:44:32) Nvidia, Powered by A.I. Boom, Reports Soaring Revenue and Profits
  • (00:48:16) Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6 billion in latest funding round
• Projects & Open Source
  • (00:51:13) Scale AI publishes its first LLM Leaderboards, ranking AI model performance in specific domains
  • (00:56:04) Cohere For AI Launches Aya 23, 8 and 35 Billion Parameter Open Weights Release
  • (01:00:45) Who will make AlphaFold3 open source? Scientists race to crack AI model
  • (01:04:07) Mistral releases Codestral, its first generative AI model for code
• Research & Advancements
  • (01:09:23) The Road Less Scheduled
  • (01:14:10) Training Compute of Frontier AI Models Grows by 4-5x per Year
  • (01:21:33) gzip Predicts Data-dependent Scaling Laws
  • (01:25:51) Neural Scaling Laws for Embodied AI
  • (01:28:47) Contextual Position Encoding: Learning to Count What’s Important
  • (01:33:09) New AI products much hyped but not much used, study says
• Policy & Safety
  • (01:37:00) Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting
  • (01:46:36)