Weekly Top Picks #91
Price AI agents / ChatGPT video input / o1 for books / T. Tao on AI x math / Sora 2 / Gemini #1 / Llama 3.3 / Epoch AI eval hub / AGI clause / OpenAI x Anduril / Genie 2 / ChatGPT with ads / ARC-AGI
The week in AI at a glance
I have so much news to share this week that I've decided to pack in more entries than usual but keep them shorter.
How will companies price AI agents?
ChatGPT will allow videos as input
How to read a book using o1
o1 for math with Terence Tao
Sora 2 is coming very soon
Google Veo is rolling out
Google Gemini is #1 once again
Meta Llama 3.3 (70B) is out
Epoch AI wants to improve benchmarking
OpenAI to drop “AGI” clause
OpenAI: national security project
Google Genie 2, a new AI for videogames
OpenAI may put ads into ChatGPT
Mike Knoop on the ARC-AGI challenge
The week in The Algorithmic Bridge
(PAID) Weekly Top Picks #90: OpenAI making enemies / AI writing on Substack / China vs the US / Superhuman AI music / David Mayer mystery / Karpathy's dunk on LLMs
(PAID) AI Companies Have Lost the Mandate of Heaven: Three grim stories will shape the future of AI. First, the scaling laws that drove the last decade of progress are hitting a wall—companies need a new thing to scale, and fast. Second, quantization tricks for shrinking models are failing, leaving small labs just as stuck as the big ones but with far less cash. Third, and most alarming, top labs have scrapped next-gen models after training failures, raising the question: have we hit the limits not just of size, but of what talented engineers can manage?
(PAID) OpenAI Announces o1 Model And ChatGPT Pro ($200/Mo): OpenAI o1 model: Better than o1-preview at math, coding, and science. Significantly more reliable (40% and 50% more accuracy than o1-preview on the 4/4 reliability test). Adaptive: faster for easy questions (up to 50-60%) and slow for harder ones. Multimodal. ChatGPT Pro: $200/month (Plus stays at $20/month). Unlimited access to the best models (o1, o1-mini, GPT-4o, and Advanced Voice). Exclusive access to o1 Pro (a slightly better version of o1).
(PAID) What Did You Think Getting Closer to AGI Would Be Like?: I reflect on OpenAI’s o1 and o1 Pro as milestones (or not) on the path to AGI and suggest that the highest peaks of their intelligence—soon far beyond human capacity—will make us feel small, even as their unexpected failures persist—revealing an extremely jagged frontier of ability.
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