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1 hour 33 minutes

#163 - Llama 3, Grok-1.5 Vision, new Atlas robot, RHO-1, Medium ban
Our 163rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Note: apology for this one coming out a few days late, got delayed in editing it -Andrey

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Timestamps + links:
- Intro / Banter
- Tools & Apps
  - (00:02:16) Meta releases Llama 3, claims it’s among the best open models available
  - (00:14:01) Elon Musk’s xAI Unveils Grok-1.5 Vision, Beats OpenAI’s GPT-4V
  - (00:17:55) Reka releases Reka Core, its multimodal language model to rival GPT-4 and Claude 3 Opus
  - (00:21:50) Cohere Compass Private Beta: A New Multi-Aspect Embedding Model
  - (00:23:48) Amazon Music’s Maestro lets listeners make AI playlists
  - (00:24:36) Snap plans to add watermarks to images created with its AI-powered tools
- Applications & Business
- Projects & Open Source
  - (00:44:08) OpenEQA: Embodied Question Answering in the Era of Foundation Models
  - (00:50:03) Introducing Idefics2: A Powerful 8B Vision-Language Model for the community
- Research & Advancements
  - (00:51:21) RHO-1: Not All Tokens Are What You Need
  - (00:57:21) Scaling Laws for Fine-Grained Mixture of Experts
  - (01:03:20) Chinchilla Scaling: A replication attempt
  - (01:07:18) China develops new light-based chiplet that could power artificial general intelligence — where AI is smarter than humans
  - (01:10:45) OSWorld: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents for Open-Ended Tasks in Real Computer Environments
- Policy & Safety
- Synthetic Media & Art
  - (01:30:25) Medium bans AI-generated content from its paid Partner Program
24 April 2024, 10:22 pm
1 hour 45 minutes

#162 - Udio Song AI, TPU v5, Mixtral 8x22, Mixture-of-Depths, Musicians sign open letter
Our 162nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Timestamps + links:
- Tools & Apps
  - (00:02:50) AI-Music Arms Race: Meet Udio, the Other ChatGPT for Music
  - (00:07:42) Anthropic launches external tool use for Claude AI, enabling stock ticker integrations and more
  - (00:11:51) Building LLMs for Code Repair
  - (00:14:16) Early Reviews of Humane AI Pin Aren’t Impressed
  - (00:16:23) Microsoft 365’s Copilot gets a GPT-4 Turbo upgrade and improved image generation
  - (00:18:41) AI editing tools are coming to all Google Photos users
- Applications & Business
  - (00:19:21) Google announces the Cloud TPU v5p, its most powerful AI accelerator yet
  - (00:23:32) Meta unveils its newest custom AI chip as it races to catch up
  - (00:27:27) Intel Unveils New AI Accelerator in Bid to Challenge Nvidia
  - (00:30:46) Adobe Is Buying Videos for $3 Per Minute to Build AI Model
  - (00:32:55) OpenAI transcribed over a million hours of YouTube videos to train GPT-4
  - (00:36:23) Waymo will launch paid robotaxi service in Los Angeles on Wednesday
  - (00:37:23) OpenAI removes Sam Altman's ownership of its Startup Fund
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
  - (00:52:08) Mixture-of-Depths: Dynamically allocating compute in transformer-based language models
  - (00:57:41) Leave No Context Behind: Efficient Infinite Context Transformers with Infini-attention
  - (01:03:31) Octopus v2: On-device language model for super agent
  - (01:07:54) Bigger is not Always Better: Scaling Properties of Latent Diffusion Models
  - (01:09:54) Many-shot Jailbreaking
- Policy & Safety
- Synthetic Media & Art
  - (01:39:26) Billie Eilish, Pearl Jam, Nicki Minaj Among 200 Artists Calling for Responsible AI Music Practices
- Fun!
  - (01:41:52) OpenAI's Sora just made its first music video and it's like a psychedelic trip
15 April 2024, 12:57 am
1 hour 36 minutes

#161 - Claude 3 beats GPT-4, Stability CEO resigns, DBRX, TacticAI, UN resolution on AI
Our 161st episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Note - one extra story we didn't get to but worth knowing from this week: ‘Totally surreal’: OpenAI shares first short films created with new AI tool Sora

Timestamps + links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- Tools & Apps
  - (00:05:20) Google starts testing AI overviews from SGE in main Google search interface
  - (00:10:00) Adobe’s new GenStudio platform is an AI factory for advertisers
  - (00:13:53) Claude-3 Haiku has reached GPT-4 level by our user preference
  - (00:15:26) Microsoft Teams is getting smarter Copilot AI features
  - (00:17:16) Samsung is beating Apple in the race to bring AI to smartphones
  - (00:19:18) Elon Musk says all premium subscribers on X will gain access to AI chatbot Grok this week
- Applications & Business
- Projects & Open Source
  - (00:38:40) Introducing DBRX: A New State-of-the-Art Open LLM
  - (00:44:06) Common Corpus: A Large Public Domain Dataset for Training LLMs
  - (00:46:07) DROID: A Large-Scale In-the-Wild Robot Manipulation Dataset
  - (00:48:15) InternLM2 Technical Report
- Research & Advancements
  - (00:51:49) TacticAI: an AI assistant for football tactics
  - (00:55:44) On the Conversational Persuasiveness of Large Language Models: A Randomized Controlled Trial
  - (00:59:26) AutoDev: Automated AI-Driven Development
  - (01:02:48) Reverse Training to Nurse the Reversal Curse
  - (01:07:43) Cobra: Extending Mamba to Multi-Modal Large Language Model for Efficient Inference
  - (01:09:48) Gamba: Marry Gaussian Splatting with Mamba for single view 3D reconstruction
- Policy & Safety
  - (01:11:12) General Assembly adopts landmark resolution on artificial intelligence
  - (01:16:24) Israel Deploys Expansive Facial Recognition Program in Gaza
  - (01:19:49) LINEARITY OF RELATION DECODING IN TRANSFORMER LANGUAGE MODELS
  - (01:24:52) US Weighs Sanctioning Huawei’s Secretive Chinese Chip Network
  - (01:27:51) New York City welcomes robotaxis — but only with safety drivers
  - (01:28:40) The White House Puts New Guardrails on Government Use of AI
- Synthetic Media & Art
  - (01:31:17) BBC Will Stop Using AI For ‘Doctor Who’ Promotion After Receiving Complaints
31 March 2024, 8:09 pm
1 hour 39 minutes

#160 - Nvidia's new GPU, Microsoft pays for Inflection AI, Grok-1 open sourced, Jeremie's Action Plan
Our 160th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Timestamps + links:
- Tools & Apps
  - (00:01:36) Adobe Substance 3D’s AI features can turn text into backgrounds and textures
  - (00:05:04) OpenAI’s chatbot store is filling up with spam
  - (00:11:02) Apple’s AI ambitions could include Google or OpenAI
- Applications & Business
  - (00:13:31) Nvidia reveals Blackwell B200 GPU, the ‘world’s most powerful chip’ for AI
  - (00:19:34) Microsoft to Pay Inflection AI $650 Million After Scooping Up Most of Staff
  - (00:24:33) Figure 01: Conversations & Actions in Humanoid Robotics!
  - (00:28:07) OpenAI's GPT-4.5 Turbo leaked on search engines and could launch in June
  - (00:30:32) Abu Dhabi in talks to invest in OpenAI chip venture
  - (00:33:43) Nvidia Announces GR00T, a Foundation Model For Humanoids
- Projects & Open Source
  - (00:35:38) Open Release of Grok-1
  - (00:41:25) Stability AI brings a new dimension to video with Stable Video 3D
  - (00:44:23) Colossal-AI Team Introduces Open-Sora: An Open-Source Library for Video Generation
  - (00:45:43) Evolutionary Optimization of Model Merging Recipes
- Research & Advancements
  - (00:46:52) DiPaCo: Distributed Path Composition
  - (00:53:58) MM1: Methods, Analysis & Insights from Multimodal LLM Pre-training
  - (00:59:37) PERL: Parameter Efficient Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
  - (01:01:55) VideoAgent: Long-form Video Understanding with Large Language Model as Agent
  - (01:05:38) MusicHiFi: Fast High-Fidelity Stereo Vocoding
- Policy & Safety
- Synthetic Media & Art
  - (01:30:17) AI-Generated Science
  - (01:35:35) YouTube adds new AI-generated content labeling tool
- Fun!
  - (01:37:29) 10 of My Most Popular Text-To-Image Series (+Prompts)
24 March 2024, 7:10 pm
1 hour 3 seconds

#159 - Inflection-2.5, Devin, OpenAI board update, SIMA, EU AI Act passed
Our 159th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Timestamps + links:
- Intro / Banter
- Tools & Apps
  - (00:03:24) Inflection-2.5: meet the world's best personal AI
  - (00:06:37) Introducing Devin, the first AI software engineer
  - (00:11:00) DoorDash’s new AI-powered ‘SafeChat+’ tool automatically detects verbal abuse
  - (00:12:44) Anthropic releases Claude 3 Haiku, an AI model built for speed and affordability
  - (00:13:30) Pika Labs just added sound effects to its generative AI videos — here’s how it sounds
  - (00:15:33) Salesforce announces new AI tools for doctors
- Applications & Business
  - (00:17:33) Sam Altman Rejoins OpenAI Board Along With Three New Directors
  - (00:21:15) Cohere releases powerful ‘Command-R’ language model for enterprise use
  - (00:23:16) Building Meta’s GenAI Infrastructure
  - (00:25:53) Baidu Launches China's First 24/7 Robotaxi Service
- Projects & Open Source
  - (00:26:54) Croissant: a metadata format for ML-ready datasets
  - (00:29:40) SaulLM-7B: A pioneering Large Language Model for Law
  - (00:31:45) Kai-Fu Lee’s AI Company “01.AI” Announces the Open Source of the Yi-9B Model
- Research & Advancements
  - (00:33:50) A generalist AI agent for 3D virtual environments
  - (00:39:16) Stealing Part of a Production Language Model
  - (00:42:01) Data Interpreter: An LLM Agent For Data Science
  - (00:43:54) ShortGPT: Layers in Large Language Models are More Redundant Than You Expect
  - (00:44:55) PixArt-Σ: Weak-to-Strong Training of Diffusion Transformer for 4K Text-to-Image Generation
- Policy & Safety
- Synthetic Media & Art
- Fun!
  - (00:58:12) I made by Superman action figure talk with Pika Labs’ new AI lip sync tool — watch this
18 March 2024, 3:28 pm
1 hour 48 minutes

#158 - Claude 3, Elon Musk sues OpenAI, StarCoder 2, AI-Generated Spam
Our 158th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Timestamps + links:
- Tools & Apps
  - (00:01:05) Introducing the next generation of Claude
  - (00:16:05) Competition in AI video generation heats up as Deepmind alums unveil Haiper
  - (00:19:40) Meta AI creates ahistorical images, like Google Gemini
  - (00:22:12) Ideogram Is A New AI Image Generator That Obliterates the Competition, Outperforming MidJourney and Dall-E 3
  - (00:24:25) Wix’s new AI chatbot builds websites in seconds based on prompts
  - (00:26:34) I used generative AI to turn my story into a comic—and you can too
- Applications & Business
- Projects & Open Source
  - (00:45:13) StarCoder 2 and The Stack v2: The Next Generation
  - (00:49:05) Introducing TripoSR: Fast 3D Object Generation from Single Images
  - (00:51:21) H2O AI releases Danube, a super-tiny LLM for mobile applications
- Research & Advancements
  - (00:52:27) AtP*: An efficient and scalable method for localizing LLM behaviour to components
  - (00:58:28) Stable Diffusion 3: Research Paper
  - (01:02:10) Approaching Human-Level Forecasting with Language Models
  - (01:05:34) Here Come the AI Worms
  - (01:08:20) High-speed humanoid feels like a step change in robotics
  - (01:12:26) Functional Benchmarks for Robust Evaluation of Reasoning Performance, and the Reasoning Gap
- Policy & Safety
- Synthetic Media & Art
  - (01:34:18) Trump supporters target black voters with faked AI images
  - (01:37:10) AI-Generated Kara Swisher Biographies Flood Amazon
  - (01:39:55) Inside the World of AI TikTok Spammers
  - (01:43:35) Twitter is becoming a 'ghost town' of bots as AI-generated spam content floods the internet
- Fun!
  - (01:46:35) Man tries to steal driverless car in L.A., doesn’t get far: police
10 March 2024, 7:38 pm
1 hour 44 minutes

#157 - Gemini controversy, new Mistral models, Deepmind's Genie & Griffinn, AI Warfare is here
Our 157th 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
- Applications & Business
  - (00:30:09) Microsoft Strikes Deal with France’s Mistral AI
  - (00:33:45) Figure Raises $675M at $2.6B Valuation and Signs Collaboration Agreement with OpenAI
  - (00:37:05) Nvidia posts record revenue up 265% on booming AI business
  - (00:39:54) MediaTek’s latest chipsets are now ‘optimized’ for Gemini Nano
  - (00:41:28) Tumblr’s owner is striking deals with OpenAI and Midjourney for training data, says report
  - (00:43:45) Mistral AI models coming soon to Amazon Bedrock
- Projects & Open Source
- Research & Advancements
  - (00:57:51) Genie: Generative Interactive Environments
  - (01:07:08) Griffin: Mixing Gated Linear Recurrences with Local Attention for Efficient Language Models
  - (01:15:16) Quantum Circuit Optimization with AlphaTensor
  - (01:20:56) Back to Basics: Revisiting REINFORCE Style Optimization for Learning from Human Feedback in LLMs
  - (01:22:10) Repetition Improves Language Model Embeddings
- Policy & Safety
- Synthetic Media & Art
  - (01:40:23) The Intercept, Raw Story, and AlterNet sue OpenAI and Microsoft
  - (01:41:15) A viral photo of a guy smoking in McDonald's is completely fake — and of course made by AI
- Fun!
  - (01:42:54) Impossible AI Food
3 March 2024, 8:05 pm
1 hour 45 minutes

#156 - OpenAI's Sora, Gemini 1.5, BioMistral, V-JEPA, AI Task Force, Fun!
Our 156th 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
  - (00:02:16) OpenAI introduces Sora, its text-to-video AI model
  - (00:13:24) Gemini 1.5 is Google’s next-gen AI model — and it’s already almost ready
  - (00:24:00) Groq AI model goes viral and rivals ChatGPT, challenges Elon Musk’s Grok
  - (00:29:26) Introducing IP Adapters: Create Consistent Game Assets in Seconds
  - (00:31:36) Report: OpenAI working on web search product
  - (00:33:20) Adobe Acrobat adds generative AI to ‘easily chat with documents’
- Applications & Business
- Projects & Open Source
  - (00:51:41) BioMistral: A Collection of Open-Source Pretrained Large Language Models for Medical Domains
  - (00:54:33) Nomic AI Releases the First Fully Open-Source Long Context Text Embedding Model that Surpasses OpenAI Ada-002 Performance on Various Benchmarks
- Research & Advancements
  - (00:57:33) Meta unveils V-JEPA AI model that improves training by learning from video
  - (01:04:51) Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Without Prompting
  - (01:09:45) OS-Copilot: Towards Generalist Computer Agents with Self-Improvement
  - (01:11:40) World Model on Million-Length Video And Language With RingAttention
  - (01:15:00) Amazon AGI Team Say Their AI Is Showing "Emergent Abilities"
- Policy & Safety
- Synthetic Media & Art
  - (01:32:13) Sarah Silverman’s lawsuit against OpenAI partially dismissed
- Fun & Miscellaneous
  - (01:36:14) A Visual Guide to Mamba and State Space Models
  - (01:38:00) Scientific Journal Publishes AI-Generated Rat with Gigantic Penis In Worrying Incident
  - (01:40:50) Helen Mirren Rips Up AI-Generated Speech at American Cinematheque Awards
  - (01:41:40) Microsoft's game-changing Super Bowl ad
25 February 2024, 7:43 pm
1 hour 45 minutes

#155 - ChatGPT memory, Altman seeks trillions, Califonia AI regulation, art gen lawsuit
Our 155th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Correction: Andrey said CLIP came out with DALL-E 2; it came out alongside the first DALL-E.

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Timestamps + links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- Tools & Apps
  - (00:03:45) ChatGPT is getting ‘memory’ to remember who you are and what you like
  - (00:08:20) Reka Flash: An Efficient and Capable Multimodal Language Model
  - (00:14:22) Say What? Chat With RTX Brings Custom Chatbot to NVIDIA RTX AI PCs
- Applications & Business
  - (00:17:49) Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips and AI
  - (00:26:12) Report: China’s SMIC to begin production of 5nm chips for Huawei
  - (00:30:32) A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco
  - (00:34:18) OpenAI reportedly developing two AI agents to automate entire work processes
  - (00:37:23) Cruise names first chief safety officer following crash and controversy
- Projects & Open Source
  - (00:39:15) Cohere for AI launches open source LLM for 101 languages
  - (00:43:10 ) BUD-E: ENHANCING AI VOICE ASSISTANTS’ CONVERSATIONAL QUALITY, NATURALNESS AND EMPATHY
  - (00:47:36) EVA-CLIP-18B: Scaling CLIP to 18 Billion Parameters
  - (00:51:30) Introducing Stable Cascade
- Research & Advancements
  - (00:53:14) SELF-DISCOVER: Large Language Models Self-Compose Reasoning Structures
  - (01:01:30) BlackMamba: Mixture of Experts for State-Space Models
  - (01:05:34) An Interactive Agent Foundation Model
  - (01:09:00) Grandmaster-Level Chess Without Search
  - (01:13:42) More Agents Is All You Need
  - (01:16:04) MusicMagus: Zero-Shot Text-to-Music Editing via Diffusion Models
- Policy & Safety
  - (01:16:41) Debating with More Persuasive LLMs Leads to More Truthful Answers
  - (01:23:49) In Big Tech’s backyard, California lawmaker unveils landmark AI bill
  - (01:28:06) AI Deployed Nukes 'to Have Peace in the World' in Tense War Simulation
  - (01:31:32) Protesters gather outside OpenAI office, opposing military AI and AGI
  - (01:35:43) AI safeguards can easily be broken, UK Safety Institute finds
- Synthetic Media & Art
  - (01:39:35) Stability, Midjourney, Runway hit back in AI art lawsuit
  - (01:42:25) AI Companies Take Hit as Judge Says Artists Have “Public Interest” In Pursuing Lawsuits
- (01:44:42) Outro
16 February 2024, 7:39 pm
1 hour 37 minutes

#154 - Google Gemini, Waymo Collision, Smaug-72B, EU AI Act final text, image watermarks
Our 154th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

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Correction: Andrey mentioned "State space machines", he meant "State space models"

Timestamps + links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- Tools & Apps
  - (00:02:06) Google Releases Gemini, an A.I.-Driven Chatbot and Voice Assistant
  - (00:05:56) Copilot gets a big redesign and a new way to edit your AI-generated images
  - (00:09:40) Arc Search's AI responses launched as an unfettered experience with no guardrails
  - (00:12:40) Brilliant Labs’s Frame glasses serve as multimodal AI assistant
  - (00:15:30) Stability AI launches SVD 1.1, a diffusion model for more consistent AI videos
  - (00:16:18) OpenAI launches ChatGPT app for Apple Vision Pro
- Applications & Business
- Projects & Open Source
  - (00:37:23) Allen Institute for AI launches open and transparent OLMo large language model
  - (00:42:46) Meet ‘Smaug-72B’: The new king of open-source AI
  - (00:47:02) Introducing Qwen1.5
  - (00:50:54) Hugging Face launches open source AI assistant maker to rival OpenAI’s custom GPTs
  - (00:53:20) Apple releases ‘MGIE’, a revolutionary AI model for instruction-based image editing
- Research & Advancements
  - (00:54:30) Learning Universal Predictors
  - (01:01:00) Can Mamba Learn How to Learn? A Comparative Study on In-Context Learning Tasks
  - (01:04:40) MusicRL: Aligning Music Generation to Human Preferences
  - (01:05:47) FP6-LLM: Efficiently Serving Large Language Models Through FP6-CentricAlgorithm-System Co-Design
  - (01:09:06) AgentBoard: An Analytical Evaluation Board of Multi-turn LLM Agents
  - (01:12:36) Specialized Language Models with Cheap Inference from Limited Domain Data
- Policy & Safety
  - (01:13:22) EU’s AI Act passes last big hurdle on the way to adoption
  - (01:17:04) Building an early warning system for LLM-aided biological threat creation
  - (01:23:44) FCC votes to ban scam robocalls that use AI-generated voices
  - (01:24:33) Biden administration names a director of the new AI Safety Institute
  - (01:26:23) OpenAI's GPT-4 finally meets its match: Scots Gaelic smashes safety guardrails
- Synthetic Media & Art
  - (01:28:04) AI poisoning tool Nightshade received 250,000 downloads in 5 days: ‘beyond anything we imagined’
  - (01:30:24) Labeling AI-Generated Images on Facebook, Instagram and Threads
  - (01:33:06) OpenAI is adding new watermarks to DALL-E 3
  - (01:34:38) Following lawsuit, rep admits “AI” George Carlin was human-written
- (01:36:20) Outro
11 February 2024, 7:54 pm
1 hour 46 minutes

#153 - Taylor Swift Deepfakes, ChatGPT features, Meta-Prompting, two new US bills
Our 153rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Check out our sponsor, the SuperDataScience podcast. You can listen to SDS across all major podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts) plus there’s a video version on YouTube.

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Timestamps + links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- Synthetic Media & Art
  - (00:03:15) Trolls have flooded X with graphic Taylor Swift AI fakes
  - (00:08:30) YouTube Deletes 1,000 Videos of Celebrity AI Scam Ads
  - (00:10:20) Iceland Has Its Own AI George Carlin Moment, Considers Law Against Deepfaking the Dead
  - (00:12:20) Guns N’ Roses share AI-generated video for ‘The General’
- Tools & Apps
  - (00:13:30) Microsoft Makes Swift Changes to AI Tool
  - (00:16:38) OpenAI drops prices and fixes ‘lazy’ GPT-4 that refused to work
  - (00:20:40) ChatGPT's new "@GPT" feature paves the way for OpenAI's vision of a universal assistant
  - (00:23:47) ChatGPT finally has competition — Google Bard with Gemini just matched it with a huge upgrade
  - (00:26:37) Browser alternatives Brave, Arc, add new AI integrations
  - (00:28:37) Baidu's Ernie AI chatbot to power Samsung's new Galaxy S24 smartphones
- Applications & Business
- Projects & Open Source
  - (00:50:07) New open source AI coding tool surpasses its inspiration: Google DeepMind’s AlphaCode
  - (00:53:00) Meta’s free Code Llama AI programming tool closes the gap with GPT-4
  - (00:54:30) DeepSeek-Coder: When the Large Language Model Meets Programming -- The Rise of Code Intelligence
  - Lighting round
- Research & Advancements
- Policy & Safety
- (01:45:15) Outro
4 February 2024, 8:29 pm
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