#210 - Claude 4, Google I/O 2025, OpenAI+io, Gemini Diffusion

Our 210th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

Recorded on 05/23/2025

Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.

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In this episode:

• Google's Gemini diffusion technology showcases significant improvements in speed and efficiency for generating text, potentially revolutionizing the auto-regressive generation paradigm.


• Anthropic activates AI Safety Level 3 protections for Claude Opus 4, implementing robust measures such as bug bounties, synthetic jailbreak data, and preliminary egress bandwidth controls to mitigate bio-risk threats.


• OpenAI responds to the California Attorney General, refuting claims by the not-for-private-gain coalition and defending their controversial restructuring plans amidst ongoing criticism.


• Mistral delays the release of its Llama 4 Behemoth model due to training challenges, while Meta faces similar obstacles in rolling out its large-scale AI models, signaling difficulties in reaching frontier level performance.

Timestamps + Links:

• (00:00:00) Intro / Banter


• (00:01:43) News Preview


• Tools & Apps
  
  (00:02:58) Anthropic’s new Claude 4 AI models can reason over many steps
  
  (00:09:58) Google Unveils A.I. Chatbot, Signaling a New Era for Search
  
  (00:14:04) Google rolls out Project Mariner, its web-browsing AI agent
  
  (00:16:40) Veo 3 can generate videos — and soundtracks to go along with them
  
  (00:21:26) Imagen 4 is Google’s newest AI image generator
  
  (00:23:15) Google Meet is getting real-time speech translation
  
  (00:25:36)