#193 - Sora release, Gemini 2, OpenAI's AGI Rule, US AI Czar

Our 193rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news!*and sometimes last last week's  Note: this one was recorded on 12/13, so the news is a bit outdated... will get things back on track soon! Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris. Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected] Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/. Sponsors: The Generator - An interdisciplinary AI lab empowering innovators from all fields to bring visionary ideas to life by harnessing the capabilities of artificial intelligence. If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form. Timestamps + Links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:02:44) News Preview (00:03:43) Response to listener comments (00:09:50) Sponsor Break Tools & Apps (00:11:12) OpenAI has finally released Sora (00:21:16) Google Reveals Gemini 2, AI Agents, and a Prototype Personal Assistant (00:28:23) ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode adding video and screen sharing input (plus a Santa mode) (00:30:43) Microsoft’s Copilot can browse the web with you using AI ‘Vision’ (00:32:31) Musk’s xAI has launched Grok image generation model (00:35:22) Cognition Labs’ AI Software Engineer Devin Launched for Subscribers (00:40:43) Apple launches its ChatGPT integration with Siri (00:43:23) Reddit’s New AI Search Tool Helps You Find Reddit Answers Without Google Applications & Business (00:46:35) OpenAI Aiming to Eliminate Microsoft AGI Rule to Boost Future Investment (00:53:34) GM halts funding of robotaxi development by Cruise (00:57:08) Largest AI data centre in the world to be built in northwest Alberta (01:02:36) Meta announces 4 million sq ft, 2GW Louisiana data center campus (01:05:22) Google’s future data centers will be built next to solar and wind farms Projects & Open Source (01:08:37) Google DeepMind Just Released PaliGemma 2: A New Family of Open-Weight Vision Language Models (3B, 10B and 28B) Research & Advancements (01:13:51) Training Large Language Models to Reason in a Continuous Latent Space (01:25:37) An Evolved Universal Transformer Memory (01:31:48) APOLLO: SGD-like Memory, AdamW-level Performance (01:37:59) Clio: A system for privacy-preserving insights into real-world AI use Policy & Safety (01:39:47) Character.AI steps up teen safety after bots allegedly caused suicide, self-harm (01:45:22) What Trump’s New AI and Crypto Czar David Sacks Means For the Tech Industry (01:49:03) Frontier AI systems have surpassed the self-replicating red line (01:53:52) Chip war: China launches antitrust probe into US semiconductor giant Nvidia in sign of escalation (01:56:53) White House Creating Task Force on AI Datacenter Infrastructure (02:00:00) US clears export of advanced AI chips to UAE under Microsoft deal, Axios says (02:02:19) Outro