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- 🥟 Chao-Down #190 OpenAI hits $1.3 billion annual revenue, AI gets better at forecasting hurricanes, Why AI Copilot startups are hot with VCs, BBC blocks OpenAI from data scraping
🥟 Chao-Down #190 OpenAI hits $1.3 billion annual revenue, AI gets better at forecasting hurricanes, Why AI Copilot startups are hot with VCs, BBC blocks OpenAI from data scraping
Plus, Adobe announces many generative AI products at Adobe MAX
Enjoy today’s slice of the AI internet!
-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.
What happened in AI? 📰
AI is getting better at hurricane forecasting (Ars Technica)
The BBC is blocking OpenAI data scraping but is open to AI-powered journalism - (The Verge)
ChatGPT’s mobile app hit record $4.58M in revenue last month, but growth is slowing (TechCrunch)
Why ‘AI copilot’ startups are so hot with VCs right now (Fortune)
5 Key Takeaways From Adobe MAX 2023: What You Need to Know (Design Shack)
OpenAI’s Revenue Crossed $1.3 Billion Annualized Rate, CEO Tells Staff (The Information)
Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖
How Stripe Creates the Best Documentation in the Tech Industry - Mintlify
Replacing Engineering Managers with AI Agents (engineeringcalm.com)
Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠
leptonai/leptonai: A Pythonic framework to simplify AI service building (Github)
AI-Engineer-Foundation/agent-protocol: Common interface for interacting with AI agents. The protocol is tech stack agnostic - you can use it with any framework for building agents. (Github)
OpenCompass is an open-source, efficient, and comprehensive evaluation suite and platform designed for large models (OpenCompass)
The Latest in AI Research 💡
Degradation-Aware Self-Attention Based Transformer for Blind Image Super-Resolution (arxiv.org)
Kosmos-2.5: A Multimodal Literate Model (arxiv.org)
Training a Large Video Model on a Single Machine in a Day (arxiv.org)
The World Outside of AI 🌎
The Wager That Betting Can Change the World (The New York Times)
Domino's gives free Emergency Pizza when you 'need it most' (NYPost)
Why a search engine that scans your face is dangerous (NPR)
First-ever gene therapy trial to cure form of deafness begins (Ars Technica)
The Google trial shows that Apple’s search deal is the most important contract in tech (The Verge)