#177 - Instagram AI Bots, Noam Shazeer -> Google, FLUX.1, SAM2
Summary
Hosts Jeremy and Andrei discuss Apple Intelligence’s delayed iOS 18 launch, Meta’s new AI Studio for Instagram, and NVIDIA’s Blackwell chip delay. They also cover Perplexity’s publisher revenue sharing, Character.ai founders joining Google, and new humanoid robots. The episode highlights the shift toward on-device AI privacy and the challenges of hardware development in the current AI landscape.
Topics discussed
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Introduction and guest co-host Andrei Kurenkov
Apple Intelligence: On-device AI and privacy features
Google Gemini and the race to catch up with OpenAI
Instagram AI characters and Meta's Llama 3.1 release
Midjourney v6.1 and text-to-video advancements
New AI hardware: The AI Necklace
Bing AI summaries and GPT-4o Mini release
Perplexity AI joins Google and funding challenges
Perplexity Publishers Program and content licensing
NVIDIA delays next-gen AI chip due to design flaw
Humanoid robots and the challenges of hardware AI
Waymo expansion in San Francisco and autonomous driving
Canva acquires AI video startup Runway
Stable Diffusion 3.5 and Google's Gemma 2 models
Stable Fast 3D for game asset generation
OpenDevon: Autonomous AI coding agents
Meta Segment Anything 2 (SAM 2) for video segmentation
Mixture of Experts (MoE) and LLM evaluation methods
Training LLMs from scratch and cost efficiency
EU AI Act enforcement and regulatory compliance
US-China AI chip bans and UK antitrust probe into Anthropic
AI deepfakes in elections and concluding remarks
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