#193 - Sora release, Gemini 2, OpenAI's AGI Rule, US AI Czar

Our 193rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news!
*and sometimes last last week's 

Note: this one was recorded on 12/13, so the news is a bit outdated... will get things back on track soon!

Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.
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Timestamps + Links:

• (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
• (00:02:44) News Preview
• (00:03:43) Response to listener comments
• (00:09:50) Sponsor Break
• Tools & Apps
  • (00:11:12) OpenAI has finally released Sora
  • (00:21:16) Google Reveals Gemini 2, AI Agents, and a Prototype Personal Assistant
  • (00:28:23) ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode adding video and screen sharing input (plus a Santa mode)
  • (00:30:43) Microsoft’s Copilot can browse the web with you using AI ‘Vision’
  • (00:32:31) Musk’s xAI has launched Grok image generation model
  • (00:35:22) Cognition Labs’ AI Software Engineer Devin Launched for Subscribers
  • (00:40:43) Apple launches its ChatGPT integration with Siri
  • (00:43:23) Reddit’s New AI Search Tool Helps You Find Reddit Answers Without Google
• Applications & Business
  • (00:46:35) OpenAI Aiming to Eliminate Microsoft AGI Rule to Boost Future Investment
  • (00:53:34) GM halts funding of robotaxi development by Cruise
  • (00:57:08) Largest AI data centre in the world to be built in northwest Alberta
  • (01:02:36)