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#148 - Imagen 2, Midjourney on web, FunSearch, OpenAI ‘Preparedness Framework’, campaigning voice clone
Episode 187
Our 148th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
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Timestamps + links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- Tools & Apps
- (00:02:43) Google Deepmind unveils its most advanced AI image generator, Imagen 2
- (00:08:21) Anthropic will help users if they get sued for copyright infringement
- (00:13:50) Midjourney Alpha is here with AI image generations on the web
- (00:16:34) Instagram introduces gen-AI powered background editing tool
- (00:17:09) Microsoft drastically expands Azure AI Studio to include Llama 2 Model-as-a-Service, GPT-4 Turbo with Vision
- (00:18:54) ChatGPT Is Apparently Becoming Lazy as It Has Started Asking Users to Solve Their Own Problems
- (00:22:17) You can create your own AI songs with this new Copilot extension
- (00:23:57) Stability AI announces paid membership for commercial use of its models
- Applications & Business
- (00:25:42) ByteDance is secretly using OpenAI’s tech to build a competitor
- (00:31:55) Intel unveils new AI chip to compete with Nvidia and AMD
- (00:36:36) Chinese chip-related companies shutting down with record speed — 10,900, or around 30 per day, shut down in 2023
- (00:40:11) TSMC mentions 1.4nm process tech for the first time, says 2nm remains on track
- (00:42:57) Meta has done something that will get Nvidia and AMD very, very worried — it gave up on GPU and CPU to take a RISC-y route for AI training and inference acceleration
- (00:46:17) Nvidia rushes to deliver modified AI GPU chips to China customers, allegedly places 'Super Hot Run' priority order with TSMC
- (00:49:17) Published on 2 years ago