Last Week in AI20 Jan 2025

#197 - AI in Gmail+Docs, MiniMax-01, Titans, Transformer^2

Our 197th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Recorded on 01/17/2024

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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.

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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’ expansion into four new markets
- (00:29:39) AI researcher François Chollet founds a new AI lab focused on AGI
- (00:32:18) Nvidia-backed AI video platform Synthesia doubles valuation to $2.1 billion
- (00:34:46) Anysphere Raises $105M in Series B
- (00:40:14) Harvey Valuation of 3 Billion
Projects & Open Source
Research & Advancements
- (00:57:03) Titans: Learning to Memorize at Test Time
- (01:04:38) Transformer2: Self-adaptive LLMs
- (01:08:15) Inference-Time Scaling for Diffusion Models beyond Scaling Denoising Steps
Policy & Safety
Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:17:55) In AI copyright case, Zuckerberg turns to YouTube for his defense
(01:19:53) Outro

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