Our 175th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

With hosts Andrey Kurenkov (https://twitter.com/andrey_kurenkov) and Jeremie Harris (https://twitter.com/jeremiecharris)

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In this episode:

- Notable personnel movements and product updates, such as Character.ai leaders joining Google and new AI features in Reddit and Audible. - OpenAI's dramatic changes with co-founder exits, extended leaves, and new lawsuits from Elon Musk. - Rapid advancements in humanoid robotics exemplified by new models from companies like Figure in partnership with OpenAI, achieving amateur-level human performance in tasks like table tennis. - Research advancements such as Google's compute-efficient inference models and self-compressing neural networks, showcasing significant reductions in compute requirements while maintaining performance.

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Timestamps + Links:

(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
(00:03:14) Response to listener comments / corrections
Applications & Business
Tools & Apps
- (00:55:40) OpenAI cuts GPT-4o prices, launches Structured Outputs amidst price war with Google
- (01:02:08) Apple Intelligence could get a $20 Plus version
- (01:04:05) Audible is testing an AI-powered search feature
- (01:05:53) Reddit to test AI-powered search result pages
Research & Advancements
Policy & Safety
- (01:33:35) METR announces results of study on comparative capabilities of humans and agents
- (01:39:35) ‘The Godmother of AI’ says California’s well-intended AI bill will harm the U.S. ecosystem
- (01:49:13) Google Monopolized Search Through Illegal Deals, Judge Rules
- (01:54:56) Amazon faces UK merger probe over $4B Anthropic AI investment
- (01:55:44) GPT-4o System Card
(02:03:09) Outro

#178 - More Not-Acquihires, More OpenAI drama, More LLM Scaling Talk

Last Week in AI

#178 - More Not-Acquihires, More OpenAI drama, More LLM Scaling Talk