Oxygen Initiative 💨 // OpenAI in China 🚫 // AMD's Silo AI Acquisition 💰

a16z's Oxygen initiative to provide AI startups with access to GPUs at below-market rates in exchange for equity, potentially reshaping the AI VC landscape. OpenAI's decision to block users in China from accessing its tools and services, potentially accelerating the development of homegrown models by Chinese AI companies. AMD's acquisition of Silo AI for $665M to enhance its AI chip capabilities and compete against industry leader Nvidia. Three exciting AI papers on the limitations of vision language models, a new approach for video instruction tuning, and a novel framework for multi-agent collaboration called the Internet of Agents. Contact:  [email protected] Timestamps: 00:34 Introduction 01:35 a16z is trying to keep AI alive with Oxygen initiative 03:14 Chinese developers scramble as OpenAI blocks access in China 04:52 AMD to acquire Finnish startup Silo AI for $665M to step up in AI race 06:18 Fake sponsor 08:00 Vision language models are blind 09:30 Video-STaR: Self-Training Enables Video Instruction Tuning with Any Supervision 11:17 Internet of Agents: Weaving a Web of Heterogeneous Agents for Collaborative Intelligence 13:37 Outro