Our 190th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris. Note from Andrey: this one is coming out a bit later than planned, apologies! Next one will be coming out sooner. Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai

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In this episode: * OpenAI's pitch for a $100 billion data center and AI strategy plan outlines infrastructure and regulatory needs, emphasizing AI's foundational role akin to electricity. * Google's Gemini model challenges OpenAI's dominance, showing strong performance in chatbot arenas alongside generative AI advancements. * DeepMind's AlphaFold3 gets open-sourced for academic use, while new chips from NVIDIA and Google show significant performance boosts. * Anthropic and TSMC updates highlight strategic funding, regulation influences, and the complex dynamics of AI hardware and international policy.

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Timestamps + Links:

(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
(00:02:44) News Preview
(00:03:34) Sponsor Break
Tools & Apps
Applications & Business
- (00:23:47) OpenAI Discusses AI Data Center That Could Cost $100 Billion
- (00:26:48) Elon Musk's massive AI data center gets unlocked — xAI gets approved for 150MW of power, enabling all 100,000 GPUs to run concurrently
- (00:29:34) Newest Google and Nvidia Chips Speed AI Training
- (00:34:45) Ex-OpenAI CTO Murati’s New Team Takes Shape
- (00:34:45) Amazon Discussing New Multibillion-Dollar Investment in Anthropic
Projects & Open Source
- (00:37:52) Google DeepMind open-sources AlphaFold 3, ushering in a new era for drug discovery and molecular biology
- (00:41:29) Near plans to build world’s largest 1.4T parameter open-source AI model
Research & Advancements
- (00:45:38) The Super Weight in Large Language Models
- (00:55:42) Compositional Abilities Emerge Multiplicatively: Exploring Diffusion Models on a Synthetic Task
- (01:03:47) Mixture-of-Transformers: A Sparse and Scalable Architecture for Multi-Modal Foundation Models
- (01:08:14) Contextualized Evaluations: Taking the Guesswork Out of Language Model Evaluations
Policy & Safety
- (01:11:14) The Code of Practice for general-purpose AI offers a unique opportunity for the EU
- (01:15:38) Three Sketches of ASL-4 Safety Case Components
- (01:23:05) U.S Department of Commerce finalizes $6.6 billion CHIPS Act funding for TSMC Fab 21 Arizona site , TSMC cannot make 2nm chips abroad now: MOEA
- (01:26:21) OpenAI to present plans for U.S. AI strategy and an alliance to compete with China
- (01:30:42) OpenAI loses another lead safety researcher, Lilian Weng
(01:33:00) Outro

#190 - AI scaling struggles, OpenAI Agents, Super Weights

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