#181 - Google Chatbots, Cerebras vs Nvidia, AI Doom, ElevenLabs Controversy

Our 181st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form. Email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected] In this episode: - Google's AI advancements with Gemini 1.5 models and AI-generated avatars, along with Samsung's lithography progress. - Microsoft's Inflection usage caps for Pi, new AI inference services by Cerebrus Systems competing with Nvidia. - Biases in AI, prompt leak attacks, and transparency in models and distributed training optimizations, including the 'distro' optimizer. - AI regulation discussions including California’s SB1047, China's AI safety stance, and new export restrictions impacting Nvidia’s AI chips. Timestamps + Links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:03:08)Response to listener comments / corrections Tools & Apps(00:09:19) Google’s custom AI chatbots have arrived (00:12:52) Google releases three new experimental AI models (00:17:14) Google Gemini will let you create AI-generated people again (00:22:32) Five months after Microsoft hired its founders, Inflection adds usage caps to Pi (00:26:42:) Plaud takes a crack at a simpler AI pin Applications & Business(00:30:31) Cerebras Systems throws down gauntlet to Nvidia with launch of ‘world’s fastest’ AI inference service (00:41:06) Nvidia announces $50 billion stock buyback (00:46:24) OpenAI in talks to raise funding that would value it at more than $100 billion (00:50:44) OpenAI Aims to Release New AI Model, ‘Strawberry,’ in Fall (00:52:53) 3 Co-Founders Leave French AI Startup H Amid ‘Operational Differences’ (00:57:29) Samsung to Adopt High-NA Lithography Alongside Intel, Ahead of TSMC (01:02:11) Unitree's $16,000 G1 could become the first mainstream humanoid robot Projects & Open Source(01:04:59) Meta leads open-source AI boom, Llama downloads surge 10x year-over-year (01:09:08) A_Preliminary_Report_on_DisTrO. Research & Advancements(01:13:56) Diffusion Models Are Real-Time Game Engines (01:23:18) LLM Defenses Are Not Robust to Multi-Turn Human Jailbreaks Yet (01:32:21) Interviewing AI researchers on automation of AI R&D (01:40:33) Anthropic releases AI model system prompts, winning praise for transparency Policy & Safety(01:47:12) U.S. AI Safety Institute Signs Agreements Regarding AI Safety Research, Testing and Evaluation With Anthropic and OpenAI (01:50:46) China’s Views on AI Safety Are Changing—Quickly (01:56:27) Poll: 7 in 10 Californians Support SB1047, Will Blame Governor Newsom for AI-Enabled Catastrophe if He Vetoes (02:01:31) Elon Musk voices support for California bill requiring safety tests on AI models (02:03:55) Chinese Engineers Reportedly Accessing NVIDIA’s High-End AI Chips Through Decentralized “GPU Rental Services” (02:08:25) U.S. gov't tightens China restrictions on supercomputer component sales Synthetic Media & Art(02:11:13) Actors Say AI Voice-Over Generator ElevenLabs Cloned Likenesses (02:14:06) Outro