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THIS WEEK IN AI: Fable 5 Returns, OpenAI Might Nationalize, Meta Sells Compute

Shownote

We are so back. Anthropic announced the return of Fable 5, its safety updates, and related releases like Sonnet 5 and Claude Science.  In other news this week, we look into Meta’s brain-to-text research, OpenAI reports, new inference hardware, and recent ...

Highlights

This podcast episode covers a range of recent developments in AI, including the return of Anthropic's Fable 5 model after a brief ban, new research from Meta on brain-to-text decoding, and strategic shifts at major AI labs like OpenAI and Meta. The hosts also discuss breakthroughs in inference hardware and the current state of robotics, both in the home and in industry.
00:00
Anthropic's Fable 5 model is back.
03:14
Fable 5 returns with new safeguards
10:37
Combining Fable 5 with Claude Science yields significant technological innovation
11:34
61% word accuracy with non-invasive electrodes.
16:37
Meta will sell old GPUs for inference to make money.
22:15
Inference accounts for 60-70% of revenue at top AI labs.
25:46
75% less power for the same inference output.
27:37
Memory is a scarce, costly component
33:23
No single chore is pressing enough to require a robot.
38:55
Many cool AI companies are private and uninvestable
39:01
Nearing episode 200 celebration

Chapters

Fable 5 Returns
00:00
Banned, Safeguarded, Back
03:12
Sonnet 5 And Science
07:58
Meta Reads Your Mind
11:33
Meta's Compute Pivot
14:11
OpenAI's Power Play
17:17
Etched's Chip Breakthrough
23:26
Memory Market Shock
27:37
Robots In The Home
31:02
Industry, Not Housebots
36:54
Episode 200 Milestone
39:01

Transcript

Ejaaz: The King is officially back. Anthropic's flagship model, Fable 5, is finally available for everyone after being banned for almost two weeks by the US government. It is still the world's best model. I've been using it in the 12 to 24 hours since it's...