Our 189th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
(00:01:28) News Preview
(00:02:10) Response to listener comments
(00:05:02) Sponsor Break
Tools & Apps
Applications & Business
- (00:21:39) OpenAI acquired Chat.com
- (00:23:40) Saudis Plan $100 Billion AI Powerhouse to Rival UAE Tech Hub
- (00:28:28) Meta’s former hardware lead for Orion is joining OpenAI
- (00:31:38) OpenAI Accidentally Leaked Its Upcoming o1 Model to Anyone With a Certain Web Address
- (00:35:50) Nvidia Rides AI Wave to Pass Apple as World’s Largest Company
Projects & Open Source
Research & Advancements
- (00:49:55) Applying “Golden Gate Claude” mechanistic interpretability techniques to protein language models.
- (00:58:3) Relaxed Recursive Transformers: Effective Parameter Sharing with Layer-wise LoRA
- (01:05:55) From Naptime to Big Sleep: Using Large Language Models To Catch Vulnerabilities In Real-World Code
- (01:10:22) OpenAI reportedly developing new strategies to deal with AI improvement slowdown
Policy & Safety
- (01:19:52) What Donald Trump’s Win Means For AI
- (01:28:44) Fab Whack-A-Mole: Chinese Companies are Evading U.S. Sanctions
- (01:33:57) US fines GlobalFoundries for shipping chips to sanctioned Chinese firm
- (01:36:55) Anthropic teams up with Palantir and AWS to sell its AI to defense customers
(01:39:23) Outro

Last Week in AI #189 - Chat.com, FrontierMath, Relaxed Transformers, Trump & AI

Last Week in AI