Noam Shazeer, co-author of the 'Attention Is All You Need' transformer paper and one of the most consequential engineers in AI history, has left Google for OpenAI. That single personnel move is the most significant story in this week's roundup, and the episode spends time unpacking what it signals about talent concentration at the frontier labs.
The episode also covers Microsoft quietly shipping a Chinese open-source model inside Copilot, MidJourney making a move into medical imaging, and Meta undergoing an AI reorganization that the hosts characterize as a crisis. The Anthropic Fable 5 shutdown and Snap's AR glasses get analytical treatment rather than hype, which is why the runtime earns its 32 minutes.
The title is deliberately understated. The hosts argue that several of this week's developments look alarming on the surface but reveal different conclusions under scrutiny. Whether you agree or not, the reasoning is specific enough to be worth hearing. Start at the 11:46 timestamp if your time is short.
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