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Nov 3, 2026 24 min

11 Major AI Developments: RT-2 to '100X GPT-4'

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There were 11 major developments in AI in just this week, from RT-2 – a significant step on the path to robotic AGI – to ‘100x GPT 4 in 18 months’, and from the uplifting news of TranscribeGlass and AI Barbie-heimer to dramatic revelations about OpenAI in the Atlantic. We’ll also glimpse Stable Beluga 2 – the ‘first true competitor’ to ChatGPT, based on the open source Llama 2, hear about Universal Jailbreaks, learn that OpenAI has surrendered on Text Detection, plus I’ll cover the highlights of the Senate hearing on AI. https://www.patreon.com/AIExplainedChapters:0:18 – RT-22:46 – 100X GPT-43:57 – AI Video4:29 – Altman Atlantic8:41 – Jan Leike Interview10:02 – Speech Transcription + Generation11:07 – OpenAI Text Surrender11:43 – Stable Beluga 212:51 – Universal Jailbreaks14:19 – Senate testimony: Bio16:59 – Senate Testimony: SecurityRT-2: https://www.deepmind.com/blog/rt-2-new-model-translates-vision-and-language-into-actionRT-2 Paper: https://robotics-transformer2.github.io/assets/rt2.pdfRT-2 NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/28/technology/google-robots-ai.htmlSuleyman Barron’s Interview: https://www.barrons.com/articles/ai-chatbot-siri-alexa-inflection-pi-fa1809f8OpenAI Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/09/sam-altman-openai-chatgpt-gpt-4/674764/TranscribeGlass: https://twitter.com/igorsushko/status/1684645290132000768Barbie-heimer: https://twitter.com/terhavlova/status/1684265329277403149 Runway Gen 2: https://twitter.com/runwayml/status/1666429706932043776ElevenLabs: https://elevenlabs.io/speech-synthesisJan Leike Interview: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bsNXqHgiDA6dAKNun/24-superalignment-with-jan-leikeStable Beluga 2: https://stability.ai/blog/stable-beluga-large-instruction-fine-tuned-modelsOpen LLM Leaderboard: https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceH4/open_llm_leaderboardFast Takeoff: https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/YgNYA6pj2hPSDQiTE/distinguishing-definitions-of-takeoff#:~:text=associated%20with%20testing.-,Fast,case%20in%20Yudkowsky's%20foom%20scenario.OpenAI Text Detection Surrender: https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/25/openai-scuttles-ai-written-text-detector-over-low-rate-of-accuracy/Universal Jailbreaks: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/27/business/ai-chatgpt-safety-research.htmlhttps://llm-attacks.org/https://twitter.com/mustafasuleymn?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5EauthorSenate Hearing Amodei: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm1zexCjELoAltman Question from Philip @ AI Explained in Melbourne: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SMzkBKzsQsWired Bio Expert: https://www.wired.com/story/have-a-nice-future-podcast-15/https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained Non-Hype, Free Newsletter: https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/

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