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#163 - Llama 3, Grok-1.5 Vision, new Atlas robot, RHO-1, Medium ban

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Last Week in AI
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Apr 24, 2024
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Summary

Our 163rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Note: apology for this one coming out a few days late, got delayed in editing it -Andrey Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected] Timestamps + links: Intro / Banter Tools & Apps (00:02:16) Meta releases Llama 3, claims it’s among the best open models available (00:14:01) Elon Musk’s xAI Unveils Grok-1.5 Vision, Beats OpenAI’s GPT-4V (00:17:55) Reka releases Reka Core, its multimodal language model to rival GPT-4 and Claude 3 Opus (00:21:50) Cohere Compass Private Beta: A New Multi-Aspect Embedding Model (00:23:48) Amazon Music’s Maestro lets listeners make AI playlists (00:24:36) Snap plans to add watermarks to images created with its AI-powered tools Applications & Business (00:25:52) Boston Dynamics unveils new Atlas robot for commercial use (00:30:32) TSMC’s $65 billion bet still leaves US missing piece of chip puzzle (00:36:30) U.S. blacklists Intel's and Nvidia's key partner in China — three other Chinese firms also included in the blacklist for helping the military (00:38:37) Elon Musk says the next-generation Grok 3 model will require 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs to train (00:40:22) Dr. Andrew Ng appointed to Amazon’s Board of Directors (00:41:55) Collaborative Robotics Locks Up $100M, Latest Robot Startup To Raise Big Projects & Open Source (00:44:08) OpenEQA: Embodied Question Answering in the Era of Foundation Models (00:50:03) Introducing Idefics2: A Powerful 8B Vision-Language Model for the community Research & Advancements (00:51:21) RHO-1: Not All Tokens Are What You Need (00:57:21) Scaling Laws for Fine-Grained Mixture of Experts (01:03:20)…