# #181 - Google Chatbots, Cerebras vs Nvidia, AI Doom, ElevenLabs Controversy

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Published: 2024-09-15T04:10:52+00:00
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Our 181st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris 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 contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai In this episode: - Google's AI advancements with Gemini 1.5 models and AI-generated avatars, along with Samsung's lithography progress. - Microsoft's Inflection usage caps for Pi, new AI inference services by Cerebrus Systems competing with Nvidia. - Biases in AI, prompt leak attacks, and transparency in models and distributed training optimizations, including the 'distro' optimizer. - AI regulation discussions including California’s SB1047, China's AI safety stance, and new export restrictions impacting Nvidia’s AI chips. Timestamps + Links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:03:08)Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps (00:09:19) Google’s custom AI chatbots have arrived (00:12:52) Google releases three new experimental AI models (00:17:14) Google Gemini will let you create AI-generated people again (00:22:32) Five months after Microsoft hired its founders, Inflection adds usage caps to Pi (00:26:42:) Plaud takes a crack at a simpler AI pin Applications & Business (00:30:31) Cerebras Systems throws down gauntlet to Nvidia with launch of ‘world’s fastest’ AI inference service (00:41:06) Nvidia announces $50 billion stock buyback (00:46:24) OpenAI in talks to raise funding that would value it at more than $100 billion (00:50:44) OpenAI Aims to Release New AI Model, ‘Strawberry,’ in Fall (00:52:53) 3 Co-Founders Leave French AI Startup H Amid ‘Operational Dif…

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