# #167 - GPT-4o, Project Astra, Veo, OpenAI Departures, Interview with Andrey

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Podcast: [Last Week in AI](https://stenobird.com/podcast/last-week-in-ai)
Published: 2024-05-19T17:50:56+00:00
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Our 167th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With guest host Daliana Liu ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/dalianaliu/ ) from The Data Scientist Show! And a special one-time interview with Andrey in the latter part of the podcast. Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai and/or hello@gladstone.ai Timestamps + links: Intro / Banter Tools & Apps (00:03:42) OpenAI releases GPT-4o, a faster model that’s free for all ChatGPT users (00:12:06) Project Astra is the future of AI at Google (00:18:06) Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down (00:19:39) Google unveils Veo and Imagen 3, its latest AI media creation models (00:23:36) Google Unveils Music AI Sandbox Making Loops From Prompts (00:26:27) Anthropic AI Launches a Prompt Engineering Tool that Generates Production-Ready Prompts in the Anthropic Console Applications & Business (00:31:02) OpenAI’s Chief Scientist and Co-Founder Is Leaving the Company (00:35:15) Mike Krieger joins Anthropic as Chief Product Officer (00:36:28) $16k G1 humanoid rises up to smash nuts, twist and twirl (00:41:02) GM's Cruise to start testing robotaxis in Phoenix area with human safety drivers on board (00:42:52) US agency probes Amazon-owned Zoox self-driving vehicles after two crashes (00:43:58) Waymo’s robotaxis under investigation after crashes and traffic mishaps Projects & Open Source (00:44:48) Introducing PaliGemma, Gemma 2, and an Upgraded Responsible AI Toolkit (00:46:24) Falcon 2: UAE’s Technology Innovation Institute Releases New AI Model Series, Outperforming Meta’s New Llama 3 (00:48:00) License to Call: Introducing Transformers Agents 2.0 Research & Advancemen…

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