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#178 - More Not-Acquihires, More OpenAI drama, More LLM Scaling Talk
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- Last Week in AI
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- Aug 16, 2024
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Our 178th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! NOTE: this is a re-upload with fixed audio, my bad on the last one! - Andrey With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris) If you would like to get a sneak peek and help test Andrey's generative AI application, go to Astrocade.com to join the waitlist and the discord. Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form . Email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected] In this episode: - Notable personnel movements and product updates, such as Character.ai leaders joining Google and new AI features in Reddit and Audible. - OpenAI's dramatic changes with co-founder exits, extended leaves, and new lawsuits from Elon Musk. - Rapid advancements in humanoid robotics exemplified by new models from companies like Figure in partnership with OpenAI, achieving amateur-level human performance in tasks like table tennis. - Research advancements such as Google's compute-efficient inference models and self-compressing neural networks, showcasing significant reductions in compute requirements while maintaining performance. Timestamps + Links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:03:14) Response to listener comments / corrections Applications & Business (00:06:56) Google’s hiring of Character.AI’s founders is the latest sign that part of the AI startup world is starting to implode (00:15:12) Investors in Adept AI will be paid back after Amazon hires startup’s top talent (00:22:36) AI chip start-up Groq’s value rises to $2.8bn as it takes on Nvidia (00:29:22) OpenAI co-…