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Our 195th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news! *and sometimes last last week's Recorded on 01/04/2024 Join our brand new Discord here! https://discord.gg/nTyezGSKwP Note: apologies for Andrey's slurred speech and the jumpy editing, will be back to normal next week! Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekinai.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai 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. In this episode: - OpenAI teases new deliberative alignment techniques in its O3 model, showcasing major improvements in reasoning benchmarks, whilst surprising with autonomy in hacks against chess engines. - Microsoft and OpenAI continue to wrangle over the terms of their partnership, highlighting tensions amid OpenAI's shift towards a for-profit model. - Chinese AI companies like DeepSeek and Quen release advanced open-source models, presenting significant contributions to AI capabilities and performance optimization. - Sakana AI introduces innovative applications of AI to the search for artificial life, emphasizing the potential and curiosity-driven outcomes of open-ended learning and exploration. 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 (00:03:07) News Preview (00:03:54) Response to listener comments (00:05:00) Sponsor Break Tools & Apps (00:06:11) OpenAI announces new o3 model (00:21:17) Alibaba slashes prices on large language models by up to 85% as China AI rivalry heats up (00:23:04) ElevenLabs launches Flash, its fastest text-to-speech AI yet Applications & Business (00:24:24) OpenAI announces plan to transform into a for-profit company (00:33:17) Microsoft and OpenAI Wrangle Over Terms of Their Blockbuster Partnership (00:37:36) Elon Musk’s xAI gets investment from Nvidia in recent funding round: report (00:39:43) Sam Altman’s nuclear energy startup signs one of the largest nuclear power deals to date (00:41:13) OpenAI Search Leader Departs After Less Than a Year (00:42:43) Senior OpenAI Researcher Radford Departs Projects & Open Source (00:45:21) DeepSeek-AI Just Released DeepSeek-V3: A Strong Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) Language Model with 671B Total Parameters with 37B Activated for Each Token (00:54:14) Qwen Team Releases QvQ: An Open-Weight Model for Multimodal Reasoning (00:58:09) LightOn and Answer.ai Releases ModernBERT: A New Model Series that is a Pareto Improvement over BERT with both Speed and Accuracy Research & Advancements (01:00:31) Deliberation in Latent Space via Differentiable Cache Augmentation (01:05:14) Automating the Search for Artificial Life with Foundation Models Policy & Safety (01:10:27) Nonprofit group joins Elon Musk’s effort to block OpenAI’s for-profit transition (01:14:35) OpenAI Researchers Propose 'Deliberative Alignment' : A Training Approach that Teaches LLMs to Explicitly Reason through Safety Specifications before Producing an Answer (01:22:06) o1-preview autonomously hacked its environment rather than lose to Stockfish in our chess challenge. No adversarial prompting needed. (01:27:22) Elon Musk’s xAI supercomputer gets 150MW power boost despite concerns over grid impact and local power stability (01:29:06) DOE: Data centers consumed 4.4% of US power in 2023, could hit 12% by 2028 Synthetic Media & Art (01:32:20) OpenAI failed to deliver the opt-out tool it promised by 2025 (01:36:15) Outro See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .