#176 - SearchGPT, Gemini 1.5 Flash, Lamma 3.1 405B, Mistral Large 2

Our 176th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

NOTE: apologies for this episode coming out about a week late, things got in the way of editing it...

With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)

 

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• (00:00:00) Intro Song
• (00:00:34) Intro Banter
• Tools & Apps
  • (00:03:39) OpenAI announces SearchGPT, its AI-powered search engine
  • (00:08:03) Google gives free Gemini users access to its faster, lighter 1.5 Flash AI model
  • (00:09:10) X launches underwhelming Grok-powered ‘More About This Account’ feature
  • (00:11:36) Kuaishou Launches Full Beta Testing for 'Kling AI' to Global Users, Elevates Model Capabilities
  • (00:13:39) Adobe rolls out more generative AI features to Illustrator and Photoshop
  • (00:14:25) Meta AI gets new ‘Imagine me’ selfie feature
• Projects & Open Source
  • (00:15:19) Meta releases open-source AI model it says rivals OpenAI, Google tech
  • (00:28:23) Mistral AI Unveils Mistral Large 2, Beats Llama 3.1 on Code and Math
  • (00:34:00) Groq’s open-source Llama AI model tops leaderboard, outperforming GPT-4o and Claude in function calling
  • (00:36:35) Apple shows off open AI prowess: new models outperform Mistral and Hugging Face offerings
• Applications & Business
  • (00:40:25) Elon Musk wants Tesla to invest $5 billion into his newest startup, xAI — if shareholders approve
  • (00:43:01)