🥟 Chao-Down #343 Apple's deal with OpenAI pays no cash, Perplexity's revenue-sharing deal with publishers under question after media backlash, NVIDIA dominates latest MLPerf benchmarks
Plus, an insider look at the missed opportunities for Amazon's Alexa to win in AI.
Enjoy today’s slice of the AI internet!
-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.
What happened in AI? 📰
Apple to ‘Pay’ OpenAI for ChatGPT Through Distribution, Not Cash (Bloomberg)
Perplexity was planning revenue-sharing deals with publishers when it came under media fire (Semafor)
LinkedIn leans on AI to do the work of job hunting (TechCrunch)
How Amazon blew Alexa’s shot to dominate AI, according to employees who worked on it (Fortune)
Microsoft is killing off GPT Builder in Copilot Pro for consumers, just three months after broad availability (xda-developers.com)
Nvidia Conquers Latest AI Tests (IEEE Spectrum)
Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖
Three Laws of Software Complexity (or: why software engineers are always grumpy) | mahesh’s blog (maheshba.bitbucket.io)
Uncensor any LLM with abliteration (huggingface.co)
Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠
EricLBuehler/mistral.rs: Blazingly fast LLM inference. (Github)
datastrato/gravitino: World's most powerful open data catalog for building a high-performance, geo-distributed and federated metadata lake. (Github)
netease-youdao/QAnything: Question and Answer based on Anything. (Github)
The Latest in AI Research 💡
LLMs Can't Plan, But Can Help Planning in LLM-Modulo Frameworks (arxiv)
Together MoA — collective intelligence of open-source models pushing the frontier of LLM capabilities (Together AI)
Autoregressive Model Beats Diffusion: Llama for Scalable Image Generation (arxiv)
The World Outside of AI 🌎
How Americans Get News on TikTok, X, Facebook and Instagram (Pew Research Center)
California minimum wage hike raises fast foot prices (qz.com)
How Dr Pepper passed Pepsi by marketing around football, flavor innovation (Marketing Dive)
Why Cancer Patients May No Longer Need Chemotherapy (Bloomberg)
The Loneliness of the American Worker (WSJ)
How 3M Discovered, Then Concealed, the Dangers of Forever Chemicals (The New Yorker)