Last Week in AI24 Mar 2025

#204 - OpenAI Audio, Rubin GPUs, MCP, Zochi

Our 204th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Recorded on 03/21/2025

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

Baidu launched two new multimodal models, Ernie 4.5 and Ernie X1, boasting competitive pricing and capabilities compared to Western counterparts like GPT-4.5 and DeepSeek R1.
OpenAI introduced new audio models, including impressive speech-to-text and text-to-speech systems, and added O1 Pro to their developer API at high costs, reflecting efforts for more profitability.
Nvidia and Apple announced significant hardware advancements, including Nvidia's future GPU plans and Apple's new Mac Studio offering that can run DeepSeek R1.
DeepSeek employees are facing travel restrictions, suggesting China is treating its AI development with increased secrecy and urgency, emphasizing a wartime footing in AI competition.

Timestamps + Links:

(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
(00:01:36) News Preview
Tools & Apps

- (00:02:50) Baidu launches two new versions of its AI model Ernie
- (00:10:46) OpenAI Unveils New Audio Models to Make AI Agents Sound More Human Than Ever
- (00:16:41) OpenAI’s o1-pro is the company’s most expensive AI model yet
- (00:20:53) Google brings a ‘canvas’ feature to Gemini, plus Audio Overview
- (00:22:18) Anthropic adds web search to its Claude chatbot
- (00:23:55) xAI launches an API for generating images

Applications & Business

Projects & Open Source

- (00:46:32) Anthropic’s Not-So-Secret Weapon That’s Giving Agents a Boost
- (00:50:50) Mistral AI drops new open-source model that outperforms GPT-4o Mini with fraction of parameters
- (00:53:30) EXAONE Deep: Reasoning Enhanced Language Models

Research & Advancements

- (00:55:58) Sample, Scrutinize and Scale: Effective Inference-Time Search by Scaling Verification
- (01:07:44) Block Diffusion: Interpolating Between Autoregressive and Diffusion Language Models
- (01:12:27) Communication-Efficient Language Model Training Scales Reliably and Robustly: Scaling Laws for DiLoCo
- (01:18:46) Transformers without Normalization
- (01:19:52) Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks
- (01:26:12) HCAST: Human-Calibrated Autonomy Software Tasks

Policy & Safety

- (01:26:45) Announcing Zochi, an Intology Project
- (01:32:46) DeepSeek, a National Treasure in China, is Now Being Closely Guarded
- (01:37:02) Claude Sonnet 3.7 (often) knows when it’s in alignment evaluations

Synthetic Media & Art

- (01:42:27) US appeals court rejects copyrights for AI-generated art lacking 'human' creator
- (01:45:10) Trump urged by Ben Stiller, Paul McCartney and hundreds of stars to protect AI copyright rules

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