Podcast appearances and mentions of mimi billing

Merry Christmas folks! This week, guest host (Sifted's) Mimi Billing and Ather discuss December's AI news updates. Highlights included Uber's entry into AI data labeling, Google DeepMind's Genie 2 for training AI in simulated environments, and Amazon's collaboration with Anthropic to develop a mega AI supercomputer. We covered the importance of new algorithms over mere scaling and the potential of agentic AI to bring advancements toward artificial general intelligence (AGI). The year saw record AI funding rounds, with Databricks leading at $10 billion, while disappointments included unmet expectations for reasoning capabilities in AI models. Looking ahead, we anticipate innovations in AI model architectures, memory integration, and task automation tools.

This week, guest host (Sifted's) Mimi Billing and Ather discuss November's AI news updates. Topics include; OpenAI's Slush presentation, which revealed both innovation and cultural challenges, and the diminishing returns of AI scaling laws. They explore the rise of specialized models, new players like Gemesis and Mistral, and OpenAI's ChatGPT search feature. The episode also examines AI's growing role in medicine, highlighting its diagnostic potential alongside concerns about biases and reliability, while reflecting on the balance between rapid progress and persistent challenges in AI development.

This week, guest host (Sifted's) Mimi Billing and Ather discuss June's AI news updates. Topics include Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI over a nonprofit agreement, Anthropic's Cloud 3 outperforming ChatGPT and Google's Gemini, and major investments in Anthropic by Google and Amazon. They also cover the EU AI Act's approval, marking the first regulatory framework for AI in Europe, and the UN's resolution on ethical AI development. The resignation of Stability AI's CEO, Emad Mostaque, is discussed in light of the company's financial struggles. The episode highlights the crowded AI startup landscape and the need for innovation. A quick reminder to everyone of our next live recording at Epicenter Stockholm on September 3rd. Sign up at: https://ai-podden-live-at-epicenter.confetti.events/ invite=896d06ea9ecd5f2d0ac122d4cefa8d50c469  Hope to see you all there!

In our first ever live recording at Epicenter Stockholm, Ather and Mimi Billing open with Kai-fu Lee's prediction that AI will take 50% of jobs by 2027 and the market's projected growth to $184 billion by 2024. Despite major investments, the profitability of large language models (LLMs) remains uncertain. OpenAI's financial success is noted, but high development costs are a concern. Privacy issues with Microsoft's new AI hardware and Google's challenges with its AI overview feature are highlighted. Ethical concerns arise from Scarlett Johansson's lawsuit threat against OpenAI for voice theft. They also discuss recent AI reasoning research and the need for more efficient training methods.

This week our guest host, Sifted's Mimi Billing and Ather discuss April's AI developments, including; implications in geopolitics and business, highlighting Microsoft's warning about AI's potential use to disrupt elections in the US, South Korea, and India. They explore China's advancements in AI, the impact of quantum computing on AI development, and recent innovations in human behaviour modeling and reasoning algorithms in large language models. The episode also touches on AI's role in the food and beverage industry, exemplified by an AI-developed coffee blend in Finland, while acknowledging the technological hurdles in mimicking human sensory experiences. 

This week our guest host, Sifted's Mimi Billing and Ather discuss March's AI developments, including; Elon Musk has sued OpenAI, alleging violation of their nonprofit agreement through a Microsoft collaboration and deviation from open-source values. Concurrently, Musk introduced his open-source language model, GROK. Meanwhile, Anthropic's new AI, Cloud 3, reportedly surpasses ChatGPT and Google's Gemini in performance. The episode also covers the EU AI Act and a UN AI resolution, drawing varied perspectives on their impact. Additionally, the resignation of Stability AI's CEO and the company's financial woes post a $101 million October 2022 funding round were discussed, underlining the difficulties in AI monetization and the saturated startup landscape.  

This week our guest host, Sifted's Mimi Billing and Ather discuss February's AI developments, including OpenAI's new video tool, Sora, and its careful release strategy amidst ethical concerns. They explore the bias issues in Google's Gemini AI and contrast different AI philosophies, highlighting the debate between practical AI applications and the pursuit of genuine intelligence. The conversation also covers NVIDIA's significant market valuation, the concept of an AI bubble, and Google's approach to AI-written content for publishers. Investments in robotics by NVIDIA and OpenAI are mentioned as forward-looking strategies. Finally, the hosts ponder the hype around AI compared to past excitement in the crypto industry. Don't forget to subscribe and follow us on Linkedin.

In this episode of AI-Podden, Mimi Billing and I highlight the latest news in AI in December and take a look back at 2023. Google DeepMind's Gemini In early December Google Deepmind launched its large language model Gemini in three different versions: Ultra, Pro, and Nano. The Ultra version is said to beat OpenAI's GPT-4 in almost everything – it is also said to be better than human experts in language understanding. The one thing that GPT4 is still stronger at is commonsense reasoning for everyday tasks. EU AI ACT On Friday the 9th, European Union policymakers agreed on a provisional deal on some landmark rules governing the use of artificial intelligence (AI). Many seem to be happy about it, when reading Reauters but in Sifted, The Act — which has yet to be finalised — is said to be perhaps hindering the progress of smaller startups, according to investors and AI founders, potentially putting Europe even further back in the global AI race. The act would not apply to open source models (like Mistral's), unless they are considered high risk or being used for banned purposes, according to a draft of the legislation that the European site Sifted has seen. But some say that most large-scale AI models will be considered “high risk”. Robots making house-tasks A couple of months ago in the AI podcast we spoke about Nvidia using an AI-enabled system to teach robots complex skills — like training a robotic hand to spin a pen between its fingers. Now A new open-source system, called Dobb-E, has launched that teaches robots domestic tasks, according to MIT Tech Review. The biggest challenge for this kind of tasks is: a lack of training data. The robot learns a domestic task by having the tasks recorded using a simple Iphone, then it learns the task in about 20 minutes, anything from how to open an air fryer, close a door, to straighten a cushion. Looking back at 2023 The past 12 months have represented a year of collective AI hysteria, with big advances like the release of OpenAI's GPT-4 and Google DeepMind's Gemini – so Generative AI is probably top of mind when it comes to what has happened in the AI space in 2023. Are there any other developments that have been overshadowed by GenAI? Certainly breakthroughs related to reasoning and planning, such as GFlowNets by Yoshua Bengio and his research group. But also, Nvidia's AI system that can learn how to design “rewards” to train robots to perform physical tasks, such as the pen spinning example that was demonstrated. Looking ahead — 2024 Multi-modal will continue as an important capability to develop for AI. But also, planning and reasoning, according to Jeff Dean, Chief Scientist at Google and DeepMind. Generalization beyond memorization. Happy Holidays!

In this special episode of AI-podden, we have the pleasure to introduce Mimi Billing from Sifted who will be co-hosting AI-podden in this special format where we get updates of the recent AI developments. In this episode, we are discussing why Nvidia is using AI to train a robot how to spin a pen between its fingers, China's claim that they have built an LLM as good as Chat GPT4 and the newest developments in the space of regulating AI - these are some of the topics discussed in this episode of the AI podcast with Ather Gattami and Mimi Billing. Read more: https://ai-podden.se/

Welcome to the Evolution Exchange Nordics Podcast. Today I will be speaking with Mimi Billing Mimi is a journalist writing for the European startup site Sifted.eu, backed by Financial Times, where she focuses on discussing whats going on across the Nordics. She previously I worked at Di Digital as a reporter where Ishe also ran events such as Di Startup Tour and Di Female Founders. Today we are discussing the trend of impact companies. • What is an impact company? Why has it become a trend? • Top impact companies to look out for in Sweden ? • Why are different sectors looking to adopt the term impact company onto the title impact company? E.g. fintech • Which sectors do we think will try to latch onto the impact company title, that people should watch out for • How will none impact companies respond • How import is this for the typical tech, prdouct or data person when choosing their next job

This week, we're talking about Getir, the speedy delivery company which has raised a massive $768m Series E round at a $11.8bn valuation. We ask, is the company really worth all that cash? We're also speaking to reporter Mimi Billing about social shopping — or shopping-turned-social game — and the Finnish startup trying to bring the Chinese craze to Europe. Finally, we're discussing our latest coverage on the war in Ukraine, including how Russian founders are reacting.

In this episode, we had the pleasure of talking live from Slush with Mimi Billing from Sifted who started by giving us an understanding of where the name of the publication comes from. Mimi is a Swede who found her love for journalism on a trip to Israel. Her main beat is health tech but she is most recently interested in new tech like nuclear power. Startups are doing so many great things but she tells us that it's so important to go deeper in a story if you want to make something people really want to read. Throughout the interview, she provides interesting insight on how she works with editors at Sifted and how she chooses the stories to write about.

This week's guest is Mimi Billing, a Swedish healthtech journalist, covering pan-European Healthtech for Sifted, a Financial Times backed media outlet. We discuss the state of European healthtech, how it differs across the Nordics, Germany and the UK and the important role that journalists play in the healthtech ecosystem. We also touch on cultural differences across Europe, how that plays into go to market strategies and what healthtech founders should think about before pitching their startup to a journalist. Get in touch with Mimi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mimibilling/ Get in touch with Fiona: https://twitter.com/dr_fiona Get in touch with Crista Galli Ventures: https://twitter.com/CristaGalliVC https://www.linkedin.com/company/crista-galli-ventures/

This week on my Sunday Session I'm joined by Mimi Billing Senior reporter at @siftedeu. Mimi writes about European health-tech and innovation in the Nordics. Previously at @didigital_se. Get in Touch with Mimi: @MimiBilling on Twitter Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon

In this episode of "Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy", Jim Joyce and got to spend some awesome time with Mimi Billing a management consultant turned journalist at Sifted. We chat about:

This week, a little glimmer of hope from central Europe in the form of a new Slovakian president who refuses to fight dirty. And a little glimmer of the future in the form of our guest, bionic woman and tech journalist Mimi Billing, one of a growing number of Swedes to have got themselves... microchipped? Plus: Russian whale jails, a decades-old French mystery, and germs at the opera. Follow Mimi on Twitter here and read her great article about Swedish body-hacking here! And for more on Slovakia's badass president-elect Zuzana Čaputová, there's no better place to start than the latest episode of the In Between Europe podcast hosted by our former guest Zselyke Csaky, which you can check out here. A massive thanks to our growing army of Patreon supporters for keeping the show going. You can chip in at patreon.com/europeanspodcast. See you next week, and in the meantime, see you online! Twitter.com/EuropeansPod Instagram.com/europeanspodcast Facebook.com/europeanspodcast europeanspodcast@gmail.com

Victor, Maria och Nanna sänder denna lördag. Vi pratar den evolutionära funktionen av klimakteriet, deplatforming och Facebookmoderatorernas jobb med techskribenten Mimi Billing samt män som väljer gynekologi.

Vetenskap, udda djur, historia och spännande händelser. Morgonpasset i P3 tar sig an kända och okända gäster och pratar om spännande, galna och oväntade ämnen.

Hon är Youtube-stjärnan som drog in en halv miljon visningar på en dag – och succén har fortsatt. Mimi Billing möter ”the queen of shitty robots” i Austin, Texas. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hon är Youtube-stjärnan som drog in en halv miljon visningar på en dag – och succén har fortsatt. Mimi Billing möter ”the queen of shitty robots” i Austin, Texas. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Varför har Facebook lagt till en “hamburge-knapp” på sajten i USA? Varför investerar SEB och Nordea tiotals miljoner kronor i blockchain-klubben R3? Och vem tog hem priserna på Female Founders? Det är några frågor som besvaras i veckans Digitalpodden, denna vecka med Mimi Billing, Jonas Leijonhufvud och Miriam Olsson Jeffery. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Mimi Billing inleder veckans Digitalpodden med en rapport från teknik, musik och filmfestivalen Southby Southwest (SXSW) i Austin, Texas. Vi får bland annat lära oss vad som händer när en stad jagar bort taxiappar som Uber och Lyft. Vidare pratar Jonas och Mimi om Sigmastocks samarbete med Nordea och spekulerar i vad de kan leda till. De diskuterar även varför noteringen av det finska spelbolaget Next Games är relevant för Sverige och varför grundarna lämnade startupfabriken The Springfield Project. Vår Silicon Valley-korre Miriam Olsson Jeffery beskriver sedan hur hon efter ett år äntligen fick en intervju med hjärnan bakom Mojang-affären, Peter Zetterberg. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

I denna veckas Digitalpodd: Viktor Ström och Mimi Billing rapporterar direkt från Almedalsveckan, men inte om Almedalsveckan. Istället: Malmöbolaget Neo Technology hjälper Linkedin i Kina, Soundtrack Your Brand har vind i seglen och Klarna-grundaren Niklas Adalberth planerar att rädda världen. Dessutom: Har det blivit trendigt att vara ängelinvesterare? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

I veckans podd: Kommer vi snart att kunna åka mellan Stockholm och Göteborg på 30 minuter i en hyperloop? Di:s Mimi Billing har träffat bolaget som vill förverkliga Elon Musks dröm. Dessutom: Jonas och Viktor utvärderar Readlys överlevnadschanser och Berlins fulspel efter Brexit-omröstningen. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.