Last Week in AI1 Apr 2025

#205 - Gemini 2.5, ChatGPT Image Gen, Thoughts of LLMs

Our 205th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Recorded on 03/28/2025

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

OpenAI's new image generation capabilities represent significant advancements in AI tools, showcasing impressive benchmarks and multimodal functionalities.
OpenAI is finalizing a historic $40 billion funding round led by SoftBank, and Sam Altman shifts focus to technical direction while COO Brad Lightcap takes on more operational responsibilities.,
Anthropic unveils groundbreaking interpretability research, introducing cross-layer tracers and showcasing deep insights into model reasoning through applications on Claude 3.5.
New challenging benchmarks such as ARC AGI 2 and complex Sudoku variations aim to push the boundaries of reasoning and problem-solving capabilities in AI models.

Timestamps + Links:

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

Applications & Business

Projects & Open Source

(00:40:27) A new, challenging AGI test stumps most AI models
(00:45:16) Challenging the Boundaries of Reasoning: An Olympiad-Level Math Benchmark for Large Language Models
(00:48:13) Wan: Open and Advanced Large-Scale Video Generative Models
(00:50:38) DeepSeek V3-0324 tops non-reasoning AI models in open-source first
(00:54:46) OpenAI adopts rival Anthropic’s standard for connecting AI models to data

Research & Advancements

(00:55:56) Anthropic can now track the bizarre inner workings of a large language model
(01:06:00) Chain-of-Tools: Utilizing Massive Unseen Tools in the CoT Reasoning of Frozen Language Models
(01:11:50) Inside-Out: Hidden Factual Knowledge in LLMs
(01:15:14) Sakana AI super-powers AI reasoning using Japan’s own Sudoku Puzzles

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