AI Policy and Innovation: Fei-Fei Li’s Vision and Europe’s Regulatory Leap

Explore Fei-Fei Li's pragmatic approach to AI policy, emphasizing science over fiction, and delve into the EU's groundbreaking AI Act, setting global standards for ethical AI use. Discover Meta's ParetoQ framework for efficient AI model quantization and Kyutai's Hibiki, a revolutionary real-time speech translation model. This episode highlights pivotal advancements shaping the future of AI governance and technology.

Sources:
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/08/ai-pioneer-fei-fei-li-says-ai-policy-must-be-based-on-science-not-science-fiction/
https://apnews.com/article/ai-act-european-union-chatbots-155157e2be2e42d0f1acca33983d8c82
https://www.marktechpost.com/2025/02/08/meta-ai-introduces-paretoq-a-unified-machine-learning-framework-for-sub-4-bit-quantization-in-large-language-models/
https://www.marktechpost.com/2025/02/08/kyutai-releases-hibiki-a-2-7b-real-time-speech-to-speech-and-speech-to-text-translation-with-near-human-quality-and-voice-transfer/

Outline:
(00:00:00) Introduction
(00:00:43) AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li says AI policy must be based on ‘science, not science fiction’
(00:03:19) Europe's AI Act: How does it work and what happens next?
(00:06:41) Meta AI Introduces ParetoQ: A Unified Machine Learning Framework for Sub-4-Bit Quantization in Large Language Models
(00:09:42) Kyutai Releases Hibiki: A 2.7B Real-Time Speech-to-Speech and Speech-to-Text Translation with Near-Human Quality and Voice Transfer