# #194 - Gemini Reasoning, Veo 2, Meta vs OpenAI, Fake Alignment

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Published: 2024-12-30T23:45:58+00:00
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Our 194th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news! *and sometimes last last week's Recorded on 12/19/2024 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . Sponsors: The Generator - An interdisciplinary AI lab empowering innovators from all fields to bring visionary ideas to life by harnessing the capabilities of artificial intelligence. In this episode: - Google dominates AI news with multiple announcements, including a reasoning model and Project Mariner, an AI browsing agent. - Anthropic explores alignment faking in LLMs, revealing models may show deceptive compliance under certain conditions. - Apple observes a trend towards smaller but more efficient language models, bucking previous trends of scaling larger parameter counts. - Legal drama unfolds as Meta backs Elon Musk's opposition to OpenAI's profit status change, raising concerns about competitive fairness. If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form . Timestamps + Links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:02:14) Response to listener comments (00:08:52) News Preview (00:10:01) Sponsor Break Tools & Apps (00:10:55) Google releases its own ‘reasoning’ AI model (00:16:52) Google Gemini can now do more in-depth research (00:21:58) Google DeepMind unveils a new video model to rival Sora (00:27:50) Pika Labs releases AI video generator 2.0 with new features (00:29:51) Google unveils Project Mariner: AI agents to use the web for you (00:34:33) X gains a faster Grok model and a new ‘Grok button’ Applications & Business (00:36:11) AI GPU clusters with…

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