🥟 Chao-Down #349 Suno and Udio get sued by major music labels for copyright infringement, Meta tags real photos as being "Made with AI", Amazon's secret ChatGPT-killer

Plus, an inside look at the failed attempt to bring AI chatbots to Los Angeles schools.

Jul 01, 2024

I just came back from the AI Engineer World’s Fair in San Francisco last week and while there were a ton of learnings and lots to unpack, a lot was happening outside the event that is worth paying attention to.

From the major record labels suing AI music startups to failed attempts at bringing AI chatbots to public schools, there’s no shortage of interesting stories to cover. So, after a week of being away, let’s dive back in.

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

US Record Labels Sue AI Music Generators Suno and Udio for Copyright Infringement (WIRED)

Meta is tagging real photos as 'Made with AI,' say photographers (TechCrunch)

Amazon Is Secretly Working on a ChatGPT Killer (Business Insider)

China’s DeepSeek Coder becomes first open-source coding model to beat GPT-4 Turbo (VentureBeat)

Google, Anthropic and xAI Want to Make Chatbots Funnier (Bloomberg)

A.I. Chatbot for Los Angeles Schools Falls Flat (The New York Times)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Optimizing AI Inference at Character.AI (Character AI)

Will AI chat replace legacy UIs? Unlikely for editor UIs. (UX Planet)

Time sinks and money sinks - How business models drive product design and user behavior (Substack)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

modelscope/DiffSynth-Studio: Enjoy the magic of Diffusion models! (Github)

niedev/RTranslator: World's first open source real-time translation app. (Github)

neelguha/legal-ml-datasets: A collection of datasets and tasks for legal machine learning (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

ChartMimic: Evaluating LMM's Cross-Modal Reasoning Capability via Chart-to-Code Generation (arxiv)

XRec: Large Language Models for Explainable Recommendation (arxiv)

Needle In A Multimodal Haystack (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Why It Pays for Startups to Move to Silicon Valley (WSJ)

Tesla Poised to Lose Its Six-Year EV Market Majority in the US (Bloomberg)

Are Chipotle’s portion sizes getting smaller? One analyst put the theory to a test (CNN Business)

Inside Netflix’s bet on advanced video encoding (The Verge)

China is beating the U.S. on nuclear power, report says (qz.com)

How Loneliness Affects the Brain (The New York Times)