Our 142nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI new.

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Timestamps + Links:

• (00:00) Intro / Banter
• Tools & Apps
  • (03:00) Introducing PlayHT 2.0 Turbo ⚡️ - The Fastest Generative AI Text-to-Speech API
  • (07:15) YouTube Music now lets you make your own playlist art with AI
  • (09:23) Sick of meetings? Microsoft’s new AI assistant will go in your place
  • (11:54) Anthropic brings Claude AI to more countries, but still no Canada (for now)
•  Applications & Business
  • (14:55) Humanoid robots face a major test with Amazon’s Digit pilots
  • (18:40) Figure 01 humanoid takes first public steps
  • (22:31) AI-generating music app Riffusion turns viral success into $4M in funding
  • (23:35) ChatGPT Creator Partners With Abu Dhabi’s G42 in Middle East AI Push
  • (25:00) AMD Scores Two Big Wins: Oracle Opts for MI300X, IBM Asks for FPGAs
  • (26:38) Alibaba, Tencent among investors in China’s rival to OpenAI with $341 million funding
  • (30:35) AI companies drive demand for office space in tech hubs, new study finds
  • (32:13) OpenAI is in talks to sell shares at an $86 billion valuation
• Projects & Open Source
  • (35:00) Introducing Video-To-Text and Pegasus-1 (80B)
  • (39:35) Adept Releases Fuyu-8B for Multimodal AI Agents
  • (42:03) MiniGPT-v2: large language model as a unified interface for vision-language multi-task learning
  • (44:53)