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#129 - AI Clippy, lots of AI funding, Ernie 3.5, RoboCat, AI act, Adobe AI indemnity clause
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#129 - AI Clippy, lots of AI funding, Ernie 3.5, RoboCat, AI act, Adobe AI indemnity clause
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73 minutes
Released:
Jul 9, 2023
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Podcast episode
Description
Our 129th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/
Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai
Timestamps:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
Tools & Apps(00:05:40) These 'A.I. humans' are letting gamers modify their voices in real time
(00:07:48) New Clippy app gives us a taste of AI in Windows 11
(00:10:40) ChatGPT on iOS now comes with Bing built-in
Applications & Business(00:11:50) Junk websites filled with AI-generated text are pulling in money from programmatic ads
(00:14:28) AI startups buck funding winter, grow share in ’23
(00:18:35) The TSA will use facial recognition in over 400 airports
(00:20:18) OpenAI Chooses London for Its First Corporate Office Outside US
(00:21:24) Unity shares rise 12% after company announces A.I. marketplace
(00:22:40) Fundings Inflection lands $1.3B investment to build more ‘personal’ AI
Runway, a startup building generative AI for content creators, raises $141M
Typeface, which is building generative AI for brands, raises $100M at a $1B valuation
Celestial AI raises $100M to transfer data using light-based interconnects
Gleamer, which provides AI software for radiologists, raises $29.5M
Parrot, an AI-powered transcription platform that turns speech into text, raises $11M Series A
(00:26:45) AcquisitionsDatabricks Strikes $1.3 Billion Deal for Generative AI Startup MosaicML
Meituan buys founder’s months-old ‘OpenAI for China’ for $234M
As the generative AI craze rages on, Ramp acquires customer support startup Cohere.io
Nvidia Acquired AI Startup That Shrinks Machine-Learning Models
Projects & Open Source(00:30:51) Unraveling GPU Inference Costs for Fine-tuned Open-source Models V/S Closed Platforms
Research & Advancements(00:33:48) Researchers From LinkedIn And UC Berkeley Propose A New Method To Detect AI-Generated Profile Photos
(00:35:35) China's Baidu claims its Ernie Bot beats ChatGPT on key tests as A.I. race heats up
(00:38:47) LeanDojo: Theorem Proving with Retrieval-Augmented Language Models
(00:40:21) Self-Improving Robots: Embracing Autonomy in Robot Learning
(00:41:48) RoboCat: A self-improving robotic agent
(00:45:05) NVIDIA H100 GPUs Set Standard for Generative AI in Debut MLPerf Benchmark
Policy & Safety(00:46:50) From ChatGPT to executive orders: Inside the White House’s urgent push to regulate AI
(00:53:50) US considering new restrictions on AI chip exports to China, Wall Street Journal reports
(00:57:10) 17 fatalities, 736 crashes: The shocking toll of Tesla’s Autopilot
(01:00:32) European companies claim the EU’s AI Act could ‘jeopardise technological sovereignty’
Synthetic Media and Art(01:04:22) Adobe Stock creators aren’t happy with Firefly, the company’s ‘commercially safe’ gen AI tool
(01:08:27) Adobe indemnity clause designed to ease enterprise fears about AI-generated art
(01:12:17) Outro
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/
Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai
Timestamps:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
Tools & Apps(00:05:40) These 'A.I. humans' are letting gamers modify their voices in real time
(00:07:48) New Clippy app gives us a taste of AI in Windows 11
(00:10:40) ChatGPT on iOS now comes with Bing built-in
Applications & Business(00:11:50) Junk websites filled with AI-generated text are pulling in money from programmatic ads
(00:14:28) AI startups buck funding winter, grow share in ’23
(00:18:35) The TSA will use facial recognition in over 400 airports
(00:20:18) OpenAI Chooses London for Its First Corporate Office Outside US
(00:21:24) Unity shares rise 12% after company announces A.I. marketplace
(00:22:40) Fundings Inflection lands $1.3B investment to build more ‘personal’ AI
Runway, a startup building generative AI for content creators, raises $141M
Typeface, which is building generative AI for brands, raises $100M at a $1B valuation
Celestial AI raises $100M to transfer data using light-based interconnects
Gleamer, which provides AI software for radiologists, raises $29.5M
Parrot, an AI-powered transcription platform that turns speech into text, raises $11M Series A
(00:26:45) AcquisitionsDatabricks Strikes $1.3 Billion Deal for Generative AI Startup MosaicML
Meituan buys founder’s months-old ‘OpenAI for China’ for $234M
As the generative AI craze rages on, Ramp acquires customer support startup Cohere.io
Nvidia Acquired AI Startup That Shrinks Machine-Learning Models
Projects & Open Source(00:30:51) Unraveling GPU Inference Costs for Fine-tuned Open-source Models V/S Closed Platforms
Research & Advancements(00:33:48) Researchers From LinkedIn And UC Berkeley Propose A New Method To Detect AI-Generated Profile Photos
(00:35:35) China's Baidu claims its Ernie Bot beats ChatGPT on key tests as A.I. race heats up
(00:38:47) LeanDojo: Theorem Proving with Retrieval-Augmented Language Models
(00:40:21) Self-Improving Robots: Embracing Autonomy in Robot Learning
(00:41:48) RoboCat: A self-improving robotic agent
(00:45:05) NVIDIA H100 GPUs Set Standard for Generative AI in Debut MLPerf Benchmark
Policy & Safety(00:46:50) From ChatGPT to executive orders: Inside the White House’s urgent push to regulate AI
(00:53:50) US considering new restrictions on AI chip exports to China, Wall Street Journal reports
(00:57:10) 17 fatalities, 736 crashes: The shocking toll of Tesla’s Autopilot
(01:00:32) European companies claim the EU’s AI Act could ‘jeopardise technological sovereignty’
Synthetic Media and Art(01:04:22) Adobe Stock creators aren’t happy with Firefly, the company’s ‘commercially safe’ gen AI tool
(01:08:27) Adobe indemnity clause designed to ease enterprise fears about AI-generated art
(01:12:17) Outro
Released:
Jul 9, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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