Sam on Lex Fridman
“Here’s my conversation with Sam Altman (@sama), his 2nd time on the podcast. We talk about the board saga, Elon lawsuit, Ilya, Sora, GPT-5, $7 trillion in compute, open source, and AGI. This was a truly fascinating conversation. It’s here on X in full, and is up on YouTube,… https://twitter.com/lexfridman/status/1769755831619219527
Transcript for Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #419 – Lex Fridman – https://lexfridman.com/sam-altman-2-transcript
“Midjourney released a new update to the style reference tool yesterday There are now 4 versions, two of them are new. The updated version is the new default (–sv 4) –sv 4 is really good, but –sv 3 is…kinda funky https://twitter.com/nickfloats/status/1771301120247255317
“Breaking: Nvidia just announced their new “AI SuperChip” Introducing Blackwell Its 4x faster than its previous chip https://twitter.com/PelosiTracker_/status/1769828432114762073
“I’m blown away by Devin. Watch me use it for 27min. It’s insane. The era of AI agents has begun. https://twitter.com/mckaywrigley/status/1767985840448516343
“Many of us are so deeply immersed in technical details that we forget what purpose AI is serving. AI is meant for the benefit of all humanity from all walks of life. @drfeifei’s fireside chat is a breath of fresh air. She offers a warm, human touch on cold, calculating machines.… https://twitter.com/DrJimFan/status/1771210354368110743
“Today is the beginning of our moonshot to solve embodied AGI in the physical world. I’m so excited to announce Project GR00T, our new initiative to create a general-purpose foundation model for humanoid robot learning. The GR00T model will enable a robot to understand multimodal… https://twitter.com/DrJimFan/status/1769860044324319658
“Yesterday @nvidia CEO Jensen Huang highlighted the power of open-source science in drug discovery via DiffDock’s inclusion in BioNeMo. DiffDock was introduced in 2022 by #JameelClinic researchers @GabriCorso, @HannesStaerk, Bowen Jing, @BarzilayRegina, Tommi Jaakkola #GTC24 https://twitter.com/AIHealthMIT/status/1770479101117096061
“Wonderful fireside chat between Jim Fan @DrJimFan and Percy Laing @percyliang on the Future of Foundation Models at #GTC2024 A few memorable points to myself: 1. Percy is the person who coined the term “foundation models”, or FoMo 🙂 The switch turned on for him in 2020 when… https://twitter.com/charles_rqi/status/1770212765829054484
“I had the great honor to host @percyliang, Associate Professor at Stanford and co-founder of Together AI. Percy coined the term “Foundation Model” and spearheaded many inspiring works on LLM agents: Alpaca, Generative Agents (Stanford Smallville, the Westworld experiment),… https://twitter.com/DrJimFan/status/1770511408889020510
Is the “AI developer”a threat to jobs – or a marketing stunt? – The Pragmatic Engineer – https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-ai-developer/
Nvidia Waves and Moats – Stratechery by Ben Thompson – https://stratechery.com/2024/nvidia-waves-and-moats/
Bringing AI to the Masses | Andreessen Horowitz – https://a16z.com/adam-dangelo-ai-masses/
Inside Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s plan to stay ahead of the AI boom – https://www.fastcompany.com/91033514/nvidia-most-innovative-companies-2024
Figma CEO Dylan Field is optimistic about AI and the future of design – The Verge – https://www.theverge.com/24102160/figma-ceo-adobe-deal-design-ai-web-future-regulation-sxsw-decoder-interview

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AI News #25: Week Ending 03/22/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 55 Links
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- Robert Scoble: https://x.com/Scobleizer
- Ethan Mollick: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emollick/
- Alan Thompson: https://lifearchitect.ai/
- Theoretically Media: https://www.youtube.com/@TheoreticallyMedia
- The Rundown: https://www.therundown.ai/
- Bilawal Sidhu: https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/
- TLDR: https://tldr.tech/ai
- Jeremiah Owyang: https://twitter.com/jowyang
- Nick St. Pierre: https://twitter.com/nickfloats
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- Marshall Kirkpatrick: https://aitimetoimpact.com/
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