🥟 Chao-Down #351 Microsoft open-sources GraphRAG, Figma in hot water over AI design feature, Perplexity faces accusations from news outlets over plagiarism and unethical web scraping

Plus, a look at how AI video games can help better understand the human mind.

Jul 03, 2024

For those following my work outside of this newsletter, my team and I recently open-sourced our latest research GraphRAG, an end-to-end AI system leveraging knowledge graphs and large language models on private datasets.

For those building AI applications, you’ve probably encountered the limitations of retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and its inability to draw connections between multiple sources of documents. GraphRAG seeks to address this by leveraging graph machine learning to provide useful knowledge artifacts for an LLM to use.

It’s early innings for all things knowledge graphs and we’re excited to see what the community builds with GraphRAG.

Check out our announcement video below and the community reception over at HackerNews!

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

News outlets are accusing Perplexity of plagiarism and unethical web scraping (TechCrunch)

Big Tech turns to nuclear power for AI electricity (qz.com)

Figma disables its AI design feature that appeared to be ripping off Apple's Weather app (TechCrunch)

Apple Spurned Idea of iPhone AI Partnership With Meta Months Ago (Bloomberg)

Meta changes its label from 'Made with AI' to 'AI info' to indicate use of AI in photos (TechCrunch)

How AI video games can help reveal the mysteries of the human mind (MIT Technology Review)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Data Flywheels for LLM Applications (sh-reya.com)

Visualizing algorithms for rate limiting (smudge.ai blog)

Latency and Throughput - The difference between latency and throughput. Plus, how to optimize them in system design. (The Polymathic Engineer)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

adithya-s-k/omniparse: Ingest, parse, and optimize any data format ➡️ from documents to multimedia ➡️ for enhanced compatibility with GenAI frameworks (Github)

GitHub - phidatahq/phidata: Build AI Assistants with memory, knowledge and tools. (Github)

modelscope/FunClip: Open-source, accurate and easy-to-use video speech recognition & clipping tool, LLM based AI clipping intergrated. (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

Connecting the Dots: Evaluating Abstract Reasoning Capabilities of LLMs Using the New York Times Connections Word Game (arxiv)

An Image is Worth More Than 16x16 Patches: Exploring Transformers on Individual Pixels (arxiv)

The Prompt Report: A Systematic Survey of Prompting Techniques (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

America’s Frozen Housing Market Is Warping the Economy (WSJ)

Office workers are swapping weekday lunch for happy hour (qz.com)

Why Some Songs Make Everyone Want to Dance (Scientific American)

Researchers craft smiling robot face from living human skin cells (Ars Technica)

Does sleep really clean the brain? Maybe not, new paper argues (AAAS)

How religious scientists balance work and faith (Nature)