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Our 202nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Recorded on 03/07/2025
Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.
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- Alibaba released Qwen-32B, their latest reasoning model, on par with leading models like DeepMind’s R1.
- Anthropic raised $3.5 billion in a funding round, valuing the company at $61.5 billion, solidifying its position as a key competitor to OpenAI.
- DeepMind introduced BigBench Extra Hard, a more challenging benchmark to evaluate the reasoning capabilities of large language models.
- Reinforcement Learning pioneers Andrew Bartow and Rich Sutton were awarded the prestigious Turing Award for their contributions to the field.
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- (00:01:41) Episode Preview
- (00:02:50) GPT-4.5 Discussion
- (00:14:13) Alibaba’s New QwQ 32B Model is as Good as DeepSeek-R1 ; Outperforms OpenAI’s o1-mini
- (00:21:29) With Alexa Plus, Amazon finally reinvents its best product
- (00:26:08) Another DeepSeek moment? General AI agent Manus shows ability to handle complex tasks
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- (00:33:19) A.I. Start-Up Anthropic Closes Deal That Values It at $61.5 Billion
- (00:35:49) Nvidia-Backed CoreWeave Files for IPO, Shows Growing Revenue
- (00:38:05) Waymo and Uber's Austin robotaxi expansion begins today
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- (00:45:25) DeepSeek AI Releases DualPipe: A Bidirectional Pipeline Parallelism Algorithm for Computation-Communication Overlap in V3/R1 Training
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- (00:56:10) Cognitive Behaviors that Enable Self-Improving Reasoners
- (01:01:49) The MASK Benchmark: Disentangling Honesty From Accuracy in AI Systems
- (01:05:32) Pioneers of Reinforcement Learning Win the Turing Award
- (01:06:56) OpenAI launches $50M grant program to help fund academic research
- (01:07:25) The Nuclear-Level Risk of Superintelligent AI
- (01:13:34) METR’s GPT-4.5 pre-deployment evaluations
- (01:17:16) Chinese buyers are getting Nvidia Blackwell chips despite US export controls
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- Alibaba released Qwen-32B, their latest reasoning model, on par with leading models like DeepMind’s R1.
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