#192 - ChatGPT Pro, Amazon Nova, GenFM, Llama 3.3, Genie 2

Our 192nd 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Note: this one was recorded on 12/04 , so the news is a bit outdated...

Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.
Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai

Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/.

Sponsors:

• The Generator - An interdisciplinary AI lab empowering innovators from all fields to bring visionary ideas to life by harnessing the capabilities of artificial intelligence.
• The AI safety book “Uncontrollable" which is not a doomer book, but instead lays out the reasonable case for AI safety and what we can do about it. Max TEGMARK said that “Uncontrollable” is a captivating, balanced, and remarkably up-to-date book on the most important issue of our time" - find it on Amazon today!

If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form.

Timestamps + Links:

• (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
• (00:02:34) Sponsor Break
• Tools & Apps
  • (00:04:19) OpenAI confirms new $200 monthly subscription, which includes its o1 reasoning model
  • (00:10:40) Amazon announces Nova, a new family of multimodal AI models
  • (00:17:13) ElevenLabs launches GenFM to turn user content into AI-powered podcasts
  • (00:20:21) Google’s new generative AI video model is now available
• Applications & Business
  • (00:23:56) Elon Musk files for injunction to halt OpenAI’s transition to a for-profit
  • (00:29:40) Amazon Is Building a Mega AI Supercomputer With Anthropic
  • (00:34:15) It Sounds an Awful Lot Like OpenAI Is Adding Ads to ChatGPT
  • (00:38:23) A16z in Talks to Lead $200 Million Round in Black Forest Labs, Startup Behind AI Images on Grok
  • (00:41:10)