# #170 - new Sora rival, OpenAI robotics, understanding GPT4, AGI by 2027?

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Podcast: [Last Week in AI](https://stenobird.com/podcast/last-week-in-ai)
Published: 2024-06-09T22:36:20+00:00
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Our 170th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris) Feel free to leave us feedback here . 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: Tools & Apps (00:03:33) KLING is the latest AI video generator that could rival OpenAI's Sora (00:09:16) ‘Apple Intelligence’ will automatically choose between on-device and cloud-powered AI (00:12:21) Udio introduces new udio-130 music generation model and more advanced features (00:14:38) Perplexity AI’s new feature will turn your searches into shareable pages (00:16:35) ElevenLabs’ AI generator makes explosions or other sound effects with just a prompt (00:18:37) Google’s updated AI-powered NotebookLM expands to India, UK and over 200 other countries Applications & Business (00:19:40) OpenAI is restarting its robotics research group (00:25:01) Saudi fund invests in China effort to create rival to OpenAI (00:29:34) UAE seeks ‘marriage’ with US over artificial intelligence deals (00:33:01) Zoox to test self-driving cars in Austin and Miami (00:35:49) Microsoft Lays Off 1,500 Workers, Blames "AI Wave" (00:38:28) Avengers, assemble—Google, Intel, Microsoft, AMD and more team up to develop an interconnect standard to rival Nvidia's NVLink Projects & Open Source (00:40:39) GLM-4-9B-Chat-1M (00:46:37) Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics show off first project: an open source robot that does chores (00:49:40) Zyphra debuts Zyda, a 1.3T language modeling dataset it claims outperforms Pile, C4, arxiv (00:51:59) Stability AI debuts new Stable Audio Op…

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