#197 - AI in Gmail+Docs, MiniMax-01, Titans, Transformer^2
Summary
Alessio and Swix from Latent Space guest-host this episode, covering Google and Microsoft’s new AI pricing strategies and the ongoing data licensing wars with news publishers. They discuss OpenAI’s new task features, Endural’s $1B defense drone factory, and major funding rounds for Cursor, Synthesia, and Harvey. The show also highlights Minimax’s long-context open-source models and the rise of Chinese AI labs.
Topics discussed
Sponsors: Box and Outshift by Cisco
Guest introductions and podcast updates
Google Workspace pricing and Microsoft Copilot rebranding
AP and Google news licensing deals with LLMs
Mistral Le Chat and OpenAI ChatGPT Tasks
Palantir's drone plant and AI in defense
Axios AI newsroom and Meta's AGI challenge
Synthesia funding and Cursor's revenue growth
Cursor vs. GitHub Copilot and legal AI startup Harvey
Open source models: Qwen, MiniMax, and voice AI
Research: Memory updates, REFT, and diffusion scaling
US AI chip export controls and policy blueprint
Teen AI usage stats and LibGen copyright lawsuit
Outro and AI-generated song
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