🥟 Chao-Down #219 Sam Altman is back as CEO of OpenAI, Anthropic releases new Claude 2.1 model, Stability AI gets into video generation, Amazon to host free AI courses to boost talent pool

What a whirlwind of events the last few days in AI has been. But it looks like that we (at least for now) have some more clarity on what the future of OpenAI will look like. Sam Altman is back alongside a reconstituted board of directors!

The challenges around org governance still need to be ironed out, but for all parties involved, it’s reassuring to have some semblance of stability before we head into the Thanksgiving holiday. We’ll have to see what next week has in store for us.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

OpenAI, Microsoft sued for copyright infringement in new class action lawsuit (Semafor)

AI community fractured over Israel-Hamas war (VentureBeat)

Stability AI gets into the video-generating game (TechCrunch)

Anthropic’s Claude 2.1 release shows the competition isn’t rubbernecking the OpenAI disaster (TechCrunch)

Microsoft AI Image Generator Blocks 'Disney' After Viral Movie Poster Trend (PetaPixel)

Amazon will host free 'AI Ready' courses in an effort to boost the AI talent pool (engadget.com)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

cxli233/FriendsDontLetFriends: Friends don't let friends make certain types of data visualization - What are they and why are they bad. (Github)

Why Technical SDRs are the Future of DevTools (hypergrowthpartners.com)

KPIs for gen AI: Why measuring your new AI is essential to its success (Google Cloud Blog)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

abi/screenshot-to-code: Drop in a screenshot and convert it to clean HTML/Tailwind/JS code (Github)

Cohere Launches Comprehensive Fine-Tuning Suite (Cohere)

Guarantee valid JSON Output with Lamini (Lamini)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

Flash-Decoding for long-context inference (PyTorch)

LoftQ: LoRA-Fine-Tuning-Aware Quantization for Large Language Models (arxiv)

Orca 2: Teaching Small Language Models How to Reason (Microsoft Research)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Parents can calm grumpy kids with a soothing caress (NPR)

Millennial, Gen Z Parents Struggle With Loneliness, Childcare Costs (businessinsider.com)

Millennials Need $525K Salary, $1M Banked to Be 'Happy': Report (Entrepreneur)

We’re Raising a Generation That Wants Less Sex (Bloomberg)

C.T.E. Study Finds That Young Football Players Are Getting the Disease (The New York Times)

280 million e-bikes are slashing oil demand far more than electric vehicles (Ars Technica)

One Last Bite 😋