Last Week in AI17 Mar 2025

#203 - Gemini Image Gen, Ascend 910C, Gemma 3, Gemini Robotics

Our 203rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Recorded on 03/14/2025

Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.
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In this episode:

OpenAI's new 'deep research' feature has raised concerns about cybersecurity and the potential misuse of AI models for bio-weapons and autonomous capabilities, prompting new safety and governance measures.
Google's extensive $3 billion investment in Anthropic is revealed, aligning with their AI strategy and reinforcing the importance of multiple technology partnerships.
Huawei's advancements in the AI chip industry are highlighted, with significant progress in producing chips comparable to Nvidia's H100, despite export control challenges.
China's recent directive discourages AI executives from traveling to the US, reflecting heightened security concerns and potentially signaling a more adversarial stance in the AI race.

Timestamps + Links:

(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
(00:01:30) News Preview
Tools & Apps

- (00:02:30) OpenAI launches new tools to help businesses build AI agents
- (00:08:50) You can now test Gemini 2.0 Flash’s native image output
- (00:13:32) Waymo is now offering 24/7 robotaxi rides in Silicon Valley
- (00:17:19) Moonvalley releases a video generator it claims was trained on licensed content
- (00:21:11) Snap introduces AI Video Lenses powered by its in-house generative model
- (00:23:37) Sudowrite Launches Muse AI Model That Can Generate Narrative-Driven Fiction

Applications & Business

Projects & Open Source

Research & Advancements

- (01:06:25) Google’s Gemini Robotics AI Model Reaches Into the Physical World
- (01:14:33) Optimizing Test-Time Compute via Meta Reinforcement Fine-Tuning
- (01:23:29) Deep Research System Card
- (01:29:50) Claude 3.7 Sonnet System Card

Policy & Safety

- (01:33:24) Detecting misbehavior in frontier reasoning models
- (01:39:30) China tells its AI leaders to avoid US travel over security concerns, WSJ reports

(01:43:48) Outro

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