Let's talk about the news for September 11

News

The Apple update
mostly meh, but they have a model running efficiently on a device. that’s potentially magic. with optional pushing to cloud then chatgpt


OpenAI plans to release 'Strawberry' for ChatGPT in two weeks, Information reports | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/technology/ar...

Robert Yang on X: "Introducing Project Sid: the first simulations of 1000+ truly autonomous agents collaborating in a virtual world, w/ emergent economy, culture, religion, and government Humans are the only species to land the moon, because we can cooperate at a vast scale Can AI do the same? https://t.co/bh2OHDJWU7" / Twitter
https://x.com/GuangyuRobert/status/18...



Ollama Updates


New Models
Mistral releases its first multimodal AI model: Pixtral 12B | VentureBeat
https://venturebeat.com/ai/pixtral-12...

(1) Fish Audio on X: "Excited to introduce Fish Speech 1.4 - now open-source and more powerful than ever! 🎉 Our mission is to make cutting-edge voice tech accessible to everyone. What's new: - Trained on 700k hours of multilingual data (up from 200k) - Now supports 8 languages: English, Chinese, https://t.co/A9vS1yGuRR" / Twitter
https://x.com/FishAudio/status/183378...



Funding

00:00:00 - Introduction and technical difficulties
00:01:58 - Discussion of knock-knock jokes
00:04:15 - Request for AI image generation tutorial
00:06:00 - Apple event and AI announcements
00:16:31 - Project SID: AI agents in Minecraft
00:21:41 - Mistral's new Pixtral multimodal AI model
00:24:39 - Fish Speech text-to-speech model
00:26:22 - Discussion of AGI timeline predictions
00:31:33 - Recommendations for small LLM models
00:39:20 - Thoughts on structured output and function calling
00:44:43 - Rant about sales pitches and pricing transparency
00:55:20 - Closing thoughts and viewer comments