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#152 - live translation on phones, Meta aims at AGI, AlphaGeometry, political deepfakes
Episode 191
Our 152nd 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
- (00:02:15) Samsung’s latest Galaxy phones offer live translation over phone calls, texts
- (00:06:16) The Rabbit R1 will receive live info from Perplexity’s AI ‘answer engine’
- (00:10:31) Google is using AI to organize and customize your Chrome browser
- (00:12:10) Adobe’s new AI-powered Premiere Pro features eradicate boring audio editing tasks
- (00:13:16) Waymo looks to launch full fleet of robotaxis in LA
- (00:15:16) Tesla finally releases FSD v12, its last hope for self-driving
- Applications & Business
- (00:19:45) OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is still chasing billions to build AI chips
- (00:25:00) Mark Zuckerberg’s new goal is creating artificial general intelligence
- (00:32:43) AI voice startup ElevenLabs lands $80M round, launches marketplace of cloned voices
- (00:35:03) Anthropic’s Margins Raise Questions on AI Startups’ Long-Term Profitability
- (00:38:00) Cohere in talks to raise as much as $1bn as AI arms race heats up
- (00:39:40) DOJ and FTC push to investigate Microsoft's OpenAI partnership- Politico
- (00:41:30) Figure announces commercial agreement with BMW Manufacturing to bring general purpose robots into automotive production
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
- (00:48:58) Published on 1 year, 10 months ago