Ilya Sutskever Calls Peak Data and the End of Pretraining

This AI Daily Brief highlights important recent developments in the AI landscape. Google’s NotebookLM has rolled out a significant update featuring an interactive mode, a revamped user interface, and a new enterprise version. Meanwhile, Perplexity AI, a contender in the Google search space, is actively pursuing substantial funding as AI search technology rapidly evolves. XAI introduced Grok 2, a faster and more precise AI model, while Pika Labs launched Pika 2.0, an enhanced video generation model. Additionally, Ilya Sutskever's assertion that we may be reaching the end of the pre-training era due to "peak data" has sparked a lively discussion, indicating that future AI advancements might shift towards new methods, such as agents, synthetic data, and inference-time computing.