Our 159th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Timestamps + links:

• Intro / Banter
• Tools & Apps
  • (00:03:24) Inflection-2.5: meet the world's best personal AI
  • (00:06:37) Introducing Devin, the first AI software engineer
  • (00:11:00) DoorDash’s new AI-powered ‘SafeChat+’ tool automatically detects verbal abuse
  • (00:12:44) Anthropic releases Claude 3 Haiku, an AI model built for speed and affordability
  • (00:13:30) Pika Labs just added sound effects to its generative AI videos — here’s how it sounds
  • (00:15:33) Salesforce announces new AI tools for doctors
• Applications & Business
  • (00:17:33) Sam Altman Rejoins OpenAI Board Along With Three New Directors
  • (00:21:15) Cohere releases powerful ‘Command-R’ language model for enterprise use
  • (00:23:16) Building Meta’s GenAI Infrastructure
  • (00:25:53) Baidu Launches China's First 24/7 Robotaxi Service
• Projects & Open Source
  • (00:26:54) Croissant: a metadata format for ML-ready datasets
  • (00:29:40) SaulLM-7B: A pioneering Large Language Model for Law
  • (00:31:45) Kai-Fu Lee’s AI Company “01.AI” Announces the Open Source of the Yi-9B Model
• Research & Advancements
  • (00:33:50) A generalist AI agent for 3D virtual environments
  • (00:39:16) Stealing Part of a Production