HeyJaredThe Attention Mechanism with Andrew Mayne
Andrew Mayne, former science communicator at OpenAI, takes you through the latest in Artificial Intelligence. Hosted by Justin Robert Young. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Hugging Face Report (opens the original)
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Andrew and Justin discuss the follow-up reporting and investigations surrounding the Hugging Face hack, Nvidia's acquisition of Hugging Face, and the looming promise of some fresh models to kick off the fall. The Attention Mechanism is now available in video! Check it out here . Chapters 00:00 - Intro 01:30 - Hugging Face Report 21:08 - Hugging Face Acquired 26:24 - Cursor and OpenAI 31:08 - Fable 5.1 and Astra 51:22 - Wrap-up Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Problem with Text Watermarks (opens the original)
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Andrew and Justin discuss Anthropic's text-based AI watermarks, the future of private companies in an AI world, and whether Google can keep up with the rest of its frontier rivals. The Attention Mechanism is now available in video! Check it out here . Chapters 00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:55 - Watermarks 00:20:45 - Dario's Private Company Thoughts 00:36:58 - Always-Listening Assistants and Google's Place in the Frontier Race 00:54:34 - RIP Atlas, One Last Time 00:58:25 - Wrap-up Hosted on Acast. See a
The End of the DeepMind Era? (opens the original)
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Andrew and Justin reconvene to talk about an ongoing series of recent upheavals at Google, asking whether the company's lack of focus on AI puts it at a disadvantage over its frontier rivals. They also discuss Sam Altman's trip to Washington and the discourse surrounding model hacking incidents. The Attention Mechanism is now available in video! Check it out here . Editor's note: Some minor crosstalk issues in this episode due to recording sync delays. Chapters 00:00 - Intro 01:04 - Google Shake
A Good Guy with a Frontier Model (opens the original)
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Andrew and Justin discuss the Hugging Face breach, which saw an unreleased OpenAI model find its way into the company's systems during internal testing. They also discuss the launch of Opus 5, the ongoing progress made by Chinese models, and the crunch for compute as 10GW data center plans start to make some motion. Plus, a tribute to the late John C. Dvorak. The Attention Mechanism is now available in video! Check it out here . Chapters 00:00 - Intro 01:23 - Hugging Face 15:45 - Chinese Models
A Frontier Shakeup (opens the original)
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Andrew and Justin discuss what's turned out to be a busy July for frontier models, including the launch of Kimi K3, the latest in Anthropic's Fable saga, and the arrival of GPT-5.6. They also dive into Anthropic's strange World Cup ad campaign and OpenAI's relaunched desktop app. You can watch a video version of this podcast here: https://youtu.be/bTUfneEBn14 Chapters 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:11 - Kimi and Chinese Models 00:08:26 - Google's Position 00:21:47 - Anthropic's Fable Saga 00:32:31 - Ant
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