🥟 Chao-Down #179 CIA builds its own ChatGPT-style tool to rival China, Microsoft looks to nuclear to power its datacenters, Google's DeepMind pinpoints genetic mutations that can cause disease

In a sign that the AI funding cycle isn’t slowing down, OpenAI is reportedly in talks to raise new funds at an $80-$90 billion valuation(!) It’s a huge step up from the last round that Microsoft and major VC firms like Sequoia and A16z led that valued the company at $29 billion.

Some people are questioning whether the once non-profit is worth that much mostly pointing out that increased costs and competition will eat away at the current lead that OpenAI has.

But what do you think? How much should OpenAI be valued?

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

CIA Builds Own ChaptGPT Style AI Tool in Rivalry With China (Bloomberg)

Microsoft is going nuclear to power its AI ambitions (The Verge)

Google DeepMind Claims Its AI Can Pinpoint Genetic Mutations That Cause Disease (Futurism)

AI Can Already Design Better Cities Than Humans, Study Shows (ScienceAlert)

Getty Images to Debut Its Own Artificial Intelligence Image Generator (Bloomberg)

Scientists Say New AI Can Translate What Chickens Are Saying (Futurism)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

The right newsroom jobs for AI, and the wrong ones (axios.com)

Diving into Engineering Metrics (The Hybrid Hacker)

TinyML and Efficient Deep Learning Computing (MIT Courseware)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

NExT-GPT/NExT-GPT: Code and models for NExT-GPT: Any-to-Any Multimodal Large Language Model (Github)

aiwaves-cn/agents: An Open-source Framework for Autonomous Language Agents (Github)

TabbyML/tabby: Self-hosted AI coding assistant (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

Chain-of-Verification Reduces Hallucination in Large Language Models (arxiv)

LongLoRA: Efficient Fine-tuning of Long-Context Large Language Models (arxiv)

Distilling step-by-step: Outperforming larger language models with less training data and smaller model sizes (Google Research Blog)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Covid Testing, Variants, Symptoms: What to Know Now in 2023 (Bloomberg)

FTC files “the big one,” a lawsuit alleging Amazon illegally maintains monopoly (Ars Technica)

WGA Strike To Officially End As Guild Leaders Approve Tentative Deal (Deadline)

Inside Apple’s Plan to Change the Way We Watch Sports (GQ)

The science behind creativity - Psychologists and neuroscientists are exploring where creativity comes from and how to increase your own (apa.org)

NFT Crash: 95% of the Market May Now Be Worthless, Study Finds (businessinsider.com)

One Last Bite 😋

I’m speaking today at The AI Conference talking about the Semantic Kernel and how it can power applications like Meta’s persona chatbots mentioned below!