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Our 216th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Recorded on 07/11/2025
Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.
Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected]
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/.
In this episode:
- xAI launches Grok 4 with breakthrough performance across benchmarks, becoming the first true frontier model outside established labs, alongside a $300/month subscription tier
- Grok's alignment challenges emerge with antisemitic responses, highlighting the difficulty of steering models toward "truth-seeking" without harmful biases
- Perplexity and OpenAI launch AI-powered browsers to compete with Google Chrome, signaling a major shift in how users interact with AI systems
- Meta study reveals AI tools actually slow down experienced developers by 20% on complex tasks, contradicting expectations and anecdotal reports of productivity gains
Timestamps + Links:
- (00:00:10) Intro / Banter
- (00:01:02) News Preview
Tools & Apps
- (00:01:59) Elon Musk's xAI launches Grok 4 alongside a $300 monthly subscription | TechCrunch
- (00:15:28) Elon Musk’s AI chatbot is suddenly posting antisemitic tropes
- (00:29:52) Perplexity launches Comet, an AI-powered web browser | TechCrunch
- (00:32:54) OpenAI is reportedly releasing an AI browser in the coming weeks | TechCrunch
- (00:33:27) Replit Launches New Feature for its Agent, CEO Calls it ‘Deep Research for Coding’
- (00:34:40) Cursor launches a web app to manage AI coding agents
- (00:36:07) Cursor apologizes for unclear pricing changes that upset users | TechCrunch
Applications & Business
- (00:39:10) Lovable on track to raise $150M at $2B valuation
- (00:41:11) Amazon built a massive AI supercluster for Anthropic called Project Rainier – here's what we know so far
- (00:46:35) Elon Musk confirms xAI is buying an overseas power plant and shipping the whole thing to the U.S. to power its new data center — 1 million AI GPUs and up to 2 Gigawatts of power under one roof, equivalent to powering 1.9 million homes
- (00:48:16) Microsoft's own AI chip delayed six months in major setback — in-house chip now reportedly expected in 2026, but won't hold a candle to Nvidia Blackwell
- (00:49:54) Ilya Sutskever becomes CEO of Safe Superintelligence after Meta poached Daniel Gross
- (00:52:46) OpenAI’s Stock Compensation Reflect Steep Costs of Talent Wars
Projects & Open Source
- (00:58:04) Hugging Face Releases SmolLM3: A 3B Long-Context, Multilingual Reasoning Model - MarkTechPost
- (00:58:33) Kimi K2: Open Agentic Intelligence
- (00:58:59) Kyutai Releases 2B Parameter Streaming Text-to-Speech TTS with 220ms Latency and 2.5M Hours of Training
Research & Advancements
- (01:02:14) Does Math Reasoning Improve General LLM Capabilities? Understanding Transferability of LLM Reasoning
- (01:07:58) Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity
- (01:13:03) Mitigating Goal Misgeneralization with Minimax Regret
- (01:17:01) Correlated Errors in Large Language Models
- (01:20:31) What skills does SWE-bench Verified evaluate?
Policy & Safety
- (01:22:53) Evaluating Frontier Models for Stealth and Situational Awareness
- (01:25:49) When Chain of Thought is Necessary, Language Models Struggle to Evade Monitors
- (01:30:09) Why Do Some Language Models Fake Alignment While Others Don't?
- (01:34:35) Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers
- (01:35:40) Google faces EU antitrust complaint over AI Overviews
- (01:36:41) The transfer of user data by DeepSeek to China is unlawful': Germany calls for Google and Apple to remove the AI app from their stores
- (01:37:30) Virology Capabilities Test (VCT): A Multimodal Virology Q&A Benchmark
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Our 216th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Recorded on 07/11/2025
Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.
Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected]
Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/.
In this episode:
- xAI launches Grok 4 with breakthrough performance across benchmarks, becoming the first true frontier model outside established labs, alongside a $300/month subscription tier
- Grok's alignment challenges emerge with antisemitic responses, highlighting the difficulty of steering models toward "truth-seeking" without harmful biases
- Perplexity and OpenAI launch AI-powered browsers to compete with Google Chrome, signaling a major shift in how users interact with AI systems
- Meta study reveals AI tools actually slow down experienced developers by 20% on complex tasks, contradicting expectations and anecdotal reports of productivity gains
Timestamps + Links:
- (00:00:10) Intro / Banter
- (00:01:02) News Preview
Tools & Apps
- (00:01:59) Elon Musk's xAI launches Grok 4 alongside a $300 monthly subscription | TechCrunch
- (00:15:28) Elon Musk’s AI chatbot is suddenly posting antisemitic tropes
- (00:29:52) Perplexity launches Comet, an AI-powered web browser | TechCrunch
- (00:32:54) OpenAI is reportedly releasing an AI browser in the coming weeks | TechCrunch
- (00:33:27) Replit Launches New Feature for its Agent, CEO Calls it ‘Deep Research for Coding’
- (00:34:40) Cursor launches a web app to manage AI coding agents
- (00:36:07) Cursor apologizes for unclear pricing changes that upset users | TechCrunch
Applications & Business
- (00:39:10) Lovable on track to raise $150M at $2B valuation
- (00:41:11) Amazon built a massive AI supercluster for Anthropic called Project Rainier – here's what we know so far
- (00:46:35) Elon Musk confirms xAI is buying an overseas power plant and shipping the whole thing to the U.S. to power its new data center — 1 million AI GPUs and up to 2 Gigawatts of power under one roof, equivalent to powering 1.9 million homes
- (00:48:16) Microsoft's own AI chip delayed six months in major setback — in-house chip now reportedly expected in 2026, but won't hold a candle to Nvidia Blackwell
- (00:49:54) Ilya Sutskever becomes CEO of Safe Superintelligence after Meta poached Daniel Gross
- (00:52:46) OpenAI’s Stock Compensation Reflect Steep Costs of Talent Wars
Projects & Open Source
- (00:58:04) Hugging Face Releases SmolLM3: A 3B Long-Context, Multilingual Reasoning Model - MarkTechPost
- (00:58:33) Kimi K2: Open Agentic Intelligence
- (00:58:59) Kyutai Releases 2B Parameter Streaming Text-to-Speech TTS with 220ms Latency and 2.5M Hours of Training
Research & Advancements
- (01:02:14) Does Math Reasoning Improve General LLM Capabilities? Understanding Transferability of LLM Reasoning
- (01:07:58) Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity
- (01:13:03) Mitigating Goal Misgeneralization with Minimax Regret
- (01:17:01) Correlated Errors in Large Language Models
- (01:20:31) What skills does SWE-bench Verified evaluate?
Policy & Safety
- (01:22:53) Evaluating Frontier Models for Stealth and Situational Awareness
- (01:25:49) When Chain of Thought is Necessary, Language Models Struggle to Evade Monitors
- (01:30:09) Why Do Some Language Models Fake Alignment While Others Don't?
- (01:34:35) Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers
- (01:35:40) Google faces EU antitrust complaint over AI Overviews
- (01:36:41) The transfer of user data by DeepSeek to China is unlawful': Germany calls for Google and Apple to remove the AI app from their stores
- (01:37:30) Virology Capabilities Test (VCT): A Multimodal Virology Q&A Benchmark
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