Our 148th 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
  • (00:02:43) Google Deepmind unveils its most advanced AI image generator, Imagen 2
  • (00:08:21) Anthropic will help users if they get sued for copyright infringement
  • (00:13:50) Midjourney Alpha is here with AI image generations on the web
  • (00:16:34) Instagram introduces gen-AI powered background editing tool
  • (00:17:09) Microsoft drastically expands Azure AI Studio to include Llama 2 Model-as-a-Service, GPT-4 Turbo with Vision
  • (00:18:54) ChatGPT Is Apparently Becoming Lazy as It Has Started Asking Users to Solve Their Own Problems
  • (00:22:17) You can create your own AI songs with this new Copilot extension
  • (00:23:57) Stability AI announces paid membership for commercial use of its models
• Applications & Business
  • (00:25:42) ByteDance is secretly using OpenAI’s tech to build a competitor
  • (00:31:55) Intel unveils new AI chip to compete with Nvidia and AMD
  • (00:36:36) Chinese chip-related companies shutting down with record speed — 10,900, or around 30 per day, shut down in 2023
  • (00:40:11) TSMC mentions 1.4nm process tech for the first time, says 2nm remains on track
  • (00:42:57) Meta has done something that will get Nvidia and AMD very, very worried — it gave up on GPU and CPU to take a RISC-y route for AI training and inference acceleration
  • (00:46:17) Nvidia rushes to deliver m