About this episode
Our 194th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news!
*and sometimes last last week's
Recorded on 12/19/2024
Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.
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In this episode:
- Google dominates AI news with multiple announcements, including a reasoning model and Project Mariner, an AI browsing agent.
- Anthropic explores alignment faking in LLMs, revealing models may show deceptive compliance under certain conditions.
- Apple observes a trend towards smaller but more efficient language models, bucking previous trends of scaling larger parameter counts.
- Legal drama unfolds as Meta backs Elon Musk's opposition to OpenAI's profit status change, raising concerns about competitive fairness.
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Timestamps + Links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
(00:02:14) Response to listener comments
(00:08:52) News Preview
(00:10:01) Sponsor Break
Tools & Apps
(00:10:55) Google releases its own ‘reasoning’ AI model
(00:16:52) Google Gemini can now do more in-depth research
(00:21:58) Google DeepMind unveils a new video model to rival Sora
(00:27:50) Pika Labs releases AI video generator 2.0 with new features
(00:29:51) Google unveils Project Mariner: AI agents to use the web for you
(00:34:33)
