#190 - AI scaling struggles, OpenAI Agents, Super Weights
Our 190th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.
Note from Andrey: this one is coming out a bit later than planned, apologies! Next one will be coming out sooner.
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- The Generator - An interdisciplinary AI lab empowering innovators from all fields to bring visionary ideas to life by harnessing the capabilities of artificial intelligence
In this episode:
* OpenAI's pitch for a $100 billion data center and AI strategy plan outlines infrastructure and regulatory needs, emphasizing AI's foundational role akin to electricity.
* Google's Gemini model challenges OpenAI's dominance, showing strong performance in chatbot arenas alongside generative AI advancements.
* DeepMind's AlphaFold3 gets open-sourced for academic use, while new chips from NVIDIA and Google show significant performance boosts.
* Anthropic and TSMC updates highlight strategic funding, regulation influences, and the complex dynamics of AI hardware and international policy.
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Timestamps + Links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- (00:02:44) News Preview
- (00:03:34) Sponsor Break
- Tools & Apps
- (00:04:36) OpenAI, Google and Anthropic Are Struggling to Build More Advanced AI
- (00:16:22) OpenAI Nears Launch of AI Agent Tool to Automate Tasks for Users
- (00:19:14) Google drops new Gemini model and it goes straight to the top of the LLM leaderboard
- (00:19:14) Chinese AI startup takes aim at OpenAI's Sora with image-to-video tool launch
- (00:20:04) Introducing the Forge Reasoning API Beta and Nous Chat: An Evolution in LLM Inference
- Applications & Business
