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#197 - AI in Gmail+Docs, MiniMax-01, Titans, Transformer^2
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- Last Week in AI
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- Jan 20, 2025
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Our 197th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 01/17/2024 Join our brand new Discord here! https://discord.gg/nTyezGSKwP Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and guest-hosted by the folks from Latent Space 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 and Mistral sign deals with AP and AFP, respectively, to deliver up-to-date news through their AI platforms. - ChatGPT introduces a tasks feature for reminders and to-dos, positioning itself more as a personal assistant. - Synthesia raises $180 million to enhance its AI video platform for generating videos of human avatars. - New U.S. guidelines restrict exporting AI chips to various countries, impacting Nvidia and other tech firms. 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 (00:04:29) News Preview (00:05:09) Response to listener comments (00:05:58) Sponsor Break Tools & Apps (00:07:01) Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free — but raising the price of Workspace (00:07:52) Microsoft relaunches Copilot for business with free AI chat and pay-as-you-go agents (00:12:36) Google signs deal with AP to deliver up-to-date news through its Gemini AI chatbot (00:18:08) Mistral signs deal with AFP to offer up-to-date answers in Le Chat (00:18:45) ChatGPT can now handle reminders and to-dos Applications & Business (00:22:53) Palmer Luckey’s AI Defense Company Anduril Is Building a $1 Billion Plant in Ohio (00:28:36) OpenAI is bankrolling Axios’…