Next-gen reasoning with OpenAI's o1 (& much more) | Trends in AI - September 2024

The AI landscape is buzzing with developments, from massive funding rounds to strategic acquisitions and groundbreaking model releases. In this installment of the Trends in AI webinar, we will unpack OpenAI's newest model, o1, which sets a new standard for reasoning. We also discuss the state of AI in Europe, the hardware battle for AI chips, all the latest model releases in LLMs, VLMs, and embedding models, and spotlight some of the top research papers from September 2024.

Dissecting the current Trends in AI: News, R&D breakthroughs, trending papers and code, and the latest gossip. Live talk show from LAB42 with the Zeta Alpha crew, and online on Zoom.

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro by Jakub Zavrel and Dinos Papakostas
0:50 Overview of Trends in AI - September 2024
1:49 Breaking news: OpenAI's o1 sets a new standard for reasoning
7:44 The future of the EU in tech & AI
9:10 European AI developments
12:50 The hardware battle in AI
18:51 AI startups & funding
21:18 LLM & VLM model releases
27:12 An update in the MTEB top-10: Zeta Alpha's first embedding model
28:50 Zeta Alpha's neural discovery platform
30:21 The top 10 research papers of September 2024
31:42 ColPali: Efficient Document Retrieval with Vision Language Models
36:13 RouterRetriever: Exploring the Benefits of Routing over Multiple Expert Embedding Models
39:30 Scaling LLM Test-Time Compute Optimally can be More Effective than Scaling Model Parameters
42:53 FlashAttention-3: Fast and Accurate Attention with Asynchrony and Low-precision
44:50 Automated Design of Agentic Systems
48:21 The AI Scientist: Towards Fully Automated Open-Ended Scientific Discovery
52:09 De novo design of high-affinity protein binders with AlphaProteo
54:08 OLMoE: Open Mixture-of-Experts Language Models
55:13 Diffusion Models Are Real-Time Game Engines
55:59 Sapiens: Foundation for Human Vision Models
57:10 Closing up with some AI conspiracies
58:32 Transformers at Work 2024 - Live from San Francisco!
59:42 Outro