🥟 Chao-Down #347 Ex-OpenAI founder launches new AI lab, Adobe updates terms of service to not use your data to train AI, Deepmind's new tool generates soundtracks from video pixels and text prompts
Plus, a look at how Chinese AI startups are sidestepping political tensions to enter the US market.
Ilya Sutskever, the cofounder of OpenAI, who left not too long ago has come out from his silence with a new venture with “one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence.”
We approach safety and capabilities in tandem, as technical problems to be solved through revolutionary engineering and scientific breakthroughs. We plan to advance capabilities as fast as possible while making sure our safety always remains ahead.
This way, we can scale in peace.
Our singular focus means no distraction by management overhead or product cycles, and our business model means safety, security, and progress are all insulated from short-term commercial pressures.
Sutskever is hoping to not repeat the mistakes from his previous venture by not being pressured to deliver products that are short-sighted and commercially driven. But knowing how expensive building AI is, how long will Sutskever be able to hold true to his vision of building safe superintelligence?
-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.
What happened in AI? 📰
Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI's former chief scientist, launches new AI company (TechCrunch)
China’s Top AI Startups Enter U.S., Defying Political Tensions (The Information)
Adobe Says It Won’t Train AI Using Artists’ Work. Creatives Aren’t Convinced (WIRED)
Google DeepMind’s new AI tool uses video pixels and text prompts to generate soundtracks (The Verge)
Japan goes light on AI regulation to court investment (Nikkei Asia)
What a Stanford study of AI copilots for lawyers says about AI for everyone else (Fortune)
Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖
Every Way To Get Structured Output From LLMs (boundaryml.com)
The history of AI art: it goes back further than you might think | Creative Bloq
Roblox’s Road to 4D Generative AI (Roblox)
Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠
qnguyen3/chat-with-mlx: An all-in-one LLMs Chat UI for Apple Silicon Mac using MLX Framework. (Github)
microsoft/Samba: Official implementation of "Samba: Simple Hybrid State Space Models for Efficient Unlimited Context Language Modeling" (Github)
omnivore-app/omnivore: Omnivore is a complete, open source read-it-later solution for people who like reading. (Github)
The Latest in AI Research 💡
SelfGoal: Your Language Agents Already Know How to Achieve High-level Goals (arxiv)
Hallucination is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models (arxiv)
LLM Dataset Inference: Did you train on my dataset? (arxiv)
The World Outside of AI 🌎
The Boston Celtics Won the NBA Title. Their MVP Was Math. (WSJ)
Apple is shutting down Apple Pay Later just months after launch (The Verge)
STEM Students Refuse to Work at Google and Amazon Over Project Nimbus | (WIRED)
China gripped by record heat, heavy rain, raising food security concerns in country | (CNN Business)
Gas prices are falling in time for summer driving season (qz.com)
Why advertisers pay more to reach viewers who watch less (phys.org)
One Last Bite 😋
