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What the Senate Wants to Know About OpenAI
A group of 5 Senators sent a letter to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman asking for more information about a slate of recent controversies. Also, Elon Musk asks …
1 year, 11 months ago
Llama 3.1 405B Eliminates Gap Between Open and Closed Source AI
According to the earliest benchmarks, the newly released Llama 3.1 405B has almost entirely (if not entirely) closed the gap between closed and open …
1 year, 11 months ago
GPT-4o Mini and the Rise of Smaller, Low Cost AI Models
OpenAI released GPT-4o Mini this week. It's both more powerful and 60% cheaper than GPT-3.5. In this episode, NLW discusses how model competition is …
1 year, 11 months ago
Elon Turns On "Most Powerful AI Training Cluster In the World"
At 4:20am, Elon Musk turned on the Memphis Supercluster to begin training what he claims will be the world's most powerful AI by December. Also NLW e…
1 year, 11 months ago
AI and the Necessary Transformation of Education
A reading and discussion inspired by https://hechingerreport.org/opinion-what-teachers-call-ai-cheating-leaders-in-the-workforce-might-call-progress/…
1 year, 11 months ago
A Draft Republican Exec Order Calls for AI "Manhattan Projects"
NLW covers reporting about a draft Republican AI executive order. Also, Menlo Ventures and Anthropic partner on a $100m fund.
Concerned about being…
1 year, 11 months ago
Why Republican VP Nominee JD Vance is Loudly For Open Source AI
NLW covers the pro-open source AI statements of JD Vance and situates his previous VC career. Before that in the Headlines, is Microsoft building Age…
2 years ago
OpenAI's Q* Reasoning AI is Now Code-Named "Strawberry"
Discover OpenAI’s latest breakthrough with the newly announced reasoning AI, code-named “Strawberry.” This episode examines the features and capabili…
2 years ago
AI Is The Fastest Adopted Work Tech Ever, But Still Not Fast Enough for Some
Explore why AI is the fastest adopted work tech ever, yet still not fast enough for some. A nuanced discussion on AI’s current place in the hype cycl…
2 years ago
OpenAI's New System for Determining How Close AGI Is
OpenAI introduces a new leveling system to track the progress towards AGI. Learn about the five stages of AI development and what each level signifie…
2 years ago