#213 - Midjourney video, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, LiveCodeBench Pro

Our 213nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Recorded on 06/21/2025
Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.
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In this episode:

Midjourney launches its first AI video generation model, moving from text-to-image to video with a subscription model offering up to 21-second clips, highlighting the affordability and growing capabilities in AI video generation.
Google's Gemini AI family updates include high-efficiency models for cost-effective workloads, and new enhancements in Google's search function now allow for voice interactions.
The introduction of two new benchmarks, Live Code Bench Pro and Abstention Bench, aiming to test and improve the problem-solving and abstention capabilities of reasoning models, revealing current limitations.
OpenAI wins a $200 million US defense contract to support various aspects of the Department of Defense, reflecting growing collaborations between tech companies and government for AI applications.

Timestamps + Links:

(00:00:10) Intro / Banter
(00:01:32) News Preview

Tools & Apps

(00:02:12) Midjourney launches its first AI video generation model, V1

(00:05:52) Google’s Gemini AI family updated with stable 2.5 Pro, super-efficient 2.5 Flash-Lite

(00:07:59) Google’s AI Mode can now have back-and-forth voice conversations

(00:10:13) YouTube to Add Google’s Veo 3 to Shorts in Move That Could Turbocharge AI on the Video Platform

Applications & Business

(00:11:10) The ‘OpenAI Files’ will help you understand how Sam Altman’s company works

(00:12:29) OpenAI drops Scale AI as a data provider following Meta deal

(00:13:28) Amazon’s Zoox opens its first major robotaxi production facility

Projects & Open Source

(00:15:20) LiveCodeBench Pro: How Do Olympiad Medalists Judge LLMs in Competitive Programming?

(00:19:45) AbstentionBench: Reasoning LLMs Fail on Unanswerable Questions

(00:22:49) MiniMax-M1: Scaling Test-Time Compute Efficiently with Lightning Attention

Research & Advancements

(00:24:33) Scaling Laws of Motion Forecasting and Planning -- A Technical Report

Policy & Safety

(00:28:07) Universal Jailbreak Suffixes Are Strong Attention Hijackers

(00:30:52) OpenAI found features in AI models that correspond to different ‘personas’

(00:33:25) OpenAI wins $200 million U.S. defense contract

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