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#149 - Reflecting on 2023, Midjourney v6, Anthropic Revenue, Unified-IO 2, NY Times sues OpenAI
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#149 - Reflecting on 2023, Midjourney v6, Anthropic Revenue, Unified-IO 2, NY Times sues OpenAI
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84 minutes
Released:
Jan 7, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Our 149th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Davis Summarizes Papers
AK’s Substack
Deep Learning Weekly
NLP News
Timestamps + links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
(00:08:13) Reflections on 2023
Tools & Apps
(00:26:32) Midjourney Version 6: Look Ma, Text!
(00:32:09) Baidu's ChatGPT-like Ernie Bot has more than 100 mln users
(00:36:05) Android Auto will have Google Assistant summarize your messages with AI
(00:37:00) Some of the Samsung Galaxy S24's key AI features just leaked
(00:38:33) Microsoft quietly launches dedicated Copilot app for Android
Applications & Business
(00:39:00) Anthropic forecasts more than $850 mln in annualized revenue rate by 2024-end
(00:42:25) Anthropic, the OpenAI rival, is in talks to raise $750 million in funding at an $18.4 billion valuation
(00:44:10) OpenAI annualized revenue tops $1.6 billion
(00:44:46) Nvidia releases slower, less powerful AI chip for China
(00:47:30) SMIC is reportedly working on 3nm process technology despite US sanctions
(00:50:16) Huawei Files A Patent That Enhances Wafer Alignment And Efficiency, Hinting At The Company’s Self-Built Fabrication Plants
(00:52:36) ASML ships first "High NA" lithography system to Intel -statement
Research & Advancements
(00:54:45) Unified-IO 2: Scaling Autoregressive Multimodal Models with Vision, Language, Audio, and Action
(00:59:11) Task Contamination: Language Models May Not Be Few-Shot Anymore
(01:02:49) Evaluating Language-Model Agents on Realistic Autonomous Tasks
(01:08:14) TinyGPT-V: Efficient Multimodal Large Language Model via Small Backbones
(01:09:47) Improving Text Embeddings with Large Language Models
(01:10:41) DeWave: Discrete EEG Waves Encoding for Brain Dynamics to Text Translation
Policy & Safety
(01:13:23) The Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over A.I. Use of Copyrighted Work
(01:18:12) Congress warns science agency over AI grant to tech-linked think tank
(01:21:48) Elon Musk’s xAI Jumps on the Bandwagon of Rich Startups 'Benefiting Humanity'
(01:23:40) Outro
Check out our sponsor, the SuperDataScience podcast. You can listen to SDS across all major podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts) plus there’s a video version on YouTube.
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/
Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai
Some recommended resources for keeping up with AI research:
Davis Summarizes Papers
AK’s Substack
Deep Learning Weekly
NLP News
Timestamps + links:
(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
(00:08:13) Reflections on 2023
Tools & Apps
(00:26:32) Midjourney Version 6: Look Ma, Text!
(00:32:09) Baidu's ChatGPT-like Ernie Bot has more than 100 mln users
(00:36:05) Android Auto will have Google Assistant summarize your messages with AI
(00:37:00) Some of the Samsung Galaxy S24's key AI features just leaked
(00:38:33) Microsoft quietly launches dedicated Copilot app for Android
Applications & Business
(00:39:00) Anthropic forecasts more than $850 mln in annualized revenue rate by 2024-end
(00:42:25) Anthropic, the OpenAI rival, is in talks to raise $750 million in funding at an $18.4 billion valuation
(00:44:10) OpenAI annualized revenue tops $1.6 billion
(00:44:46) Nvidia releases slower, less powerful AI chip for China
(00:47:30) SMIC is reportedly working on 3nm process technology despite US sanctions
(00:50:16) Huawei Files A Patent That Enhances Wafer Alignment And Efficiency, Hinting At The Company’s Self-Built Fabrication Plants
(00:52:36) ASML ships first "High NA" lithography system to Intel -statement
Research & Advancements
(00:54:45) Unified-IO 2: Scaling Autoregressive Multimodal Models with Vision, Language, Audio, and Action
(00:59:11) Task Contamination: Language Models May Not Be Few-Shot Anymore
(01:02:49) Evaluating Language-Model Agents on Realistic Autonomous Tasks
(01:08:14) TinyGPT-V: Efficient Multimodal Large Language Model via Small Backbones
(01:09:47) Improving Text Embeddings with Large Language Models
(01:10:41) DeWave: Discrete EEG Waves Encoding for Brain Dynamics to Text Translation
Policy & Safety
(01:13:23) The Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over A.I. Use of Copyrighted Work
(01:18:12) Congress warns science agency over AI grant to tech-linked think tank
(01:21:48) Elon Musk’s xAI Jumps on the Bandwagon of Rich Startups 'Benefiting Humanity'
(01:23:40) Outro
Released:
Jan 7, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
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