Our 157th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Timestamps + links:

• (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
• Tools & Apps
  • (00:04:55) Google apologizes for ‘missing the mark’ after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis
  • (00:15:07) Stability announces Stable Diffusion 3, a next-gen AI image generator
  • (00:19:04) Mistral AI releases new model to rival GPT-4 and its own chat assistant
  • (00:24:56) Windows just got its own Magic Eraser to AI-modify your photos
  • (00:25:47) Adobe previews new cutting-edge generative AI tools for crafting and editing custom audio
  • (00:27:47) AI video wars heat up as Pika adds Lip Sync powered by ElevenLabs
• Applications & Business
  • (00:30:09) Microsoft Strikes Deal with France’s Mistral AI
  • (00:33:45) Figure Raises $675M at $2.6B Valuation and Signs Collaboration Agreement with OpenAI
  • (00:37:05) Nvidia posts record revenue up 265% on booming AI business
  • (00:39:54) MediaTek’s latest chipsets are now ‘optimized’ for Gemini Nano
  • (00:41:28) Tumblr’s owner is striking deals with OpenAI and Midjourney for training data, says report
  • (00:43:45) Mistral AI models coming soon to Amazon Bedrock
• Projects & Open Source
  • (00:44:34)