🥟 Chao-Down #224 ChatGPT's one year anniversary, Microsoft secures nonvoting board seat at OpenAI, DeepMind uses AI to discover new materials, AI hasn't hit jobs yet but has hurt wages.

What better way to kick off the holiday season than with an AI hackathon!

My team at Microsoft is approaching a big milestone for the Semantic Kernel with the upcoming release of the 1.0 SDK.

To get the community familiar with the changes that are coming and to get as much feedback as possible, we’re launching a weeklong hackathon open globally for people to hack with the Semantic Kernel!

If you want to hack with us, make sure to RSVP!

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

On ChatGPT’s first anniversary, its mobile apps have topped 110M installs and nearly $30M in revenue (TechCrunch)

OpenAI staff uneasy after Sam Altman's return (Semafor)

Microsoft secures nonvoting board seat at OpenAI (CNBC)

AI isn't coming for everyone's job yet—but it is hurting wages (Quartz)

Google AI and robots join forces to build new materials (Nature)

Sidestepping GPU ban, Chinese factories dismantle and transform Nvidia RTX 4090 gaming cards into AI accelerators | Tom's Hardware (tomshardware.com)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Understanding the Open Source Tool Stack For LLMs (beehiiv.com)

Alternatives To Product Managers (Silicon Valley Product Group)

The Future of Music: How Generative AI Is Transforming the Music Industry (Andreessen Horowitz)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

OthersideAI/self-operating-computer: A framework to enable multimodal models to operate a computer. (Github)

braintrustdata/braintrust-proxy: The Braintrust AI proxy offers a unified way to access the world's leading AI models through a single AP (Github)

CICERO - Meta has created the first AI agent to achieve human-level performance in the complex natural language strategy game Diplomacy (Meta)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

SentAlign: Accurate and Scalable Sentence Alignment (arxiv)

Qwen-Audio: Advancing Universal Audio Understanding via Unified Large-Scale Audio-Language Models (arxiv)

Fine-tuning Language Models for Factuality (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Why Is Everyone So Unhappy at Work Right Now? (WSJ)

Could China’s Child Pneumonia Outbreak Spread? All You Need to Know (Bloomberg)

Tesla Cybertruck is here: electric truck will start at $60,990 and get up to 340 miles of range (The Verge)

No More Dry Burgers: McDonald’s Overhauls Its Biggest Item (WSJ)

The Tyranny of Consistency - Consistency is helpful as a tool for designing user-friendly experiences. Until it isn’t. (UX Magazine)

Anduril unveils Roadrunner, “a fighter jet weapon that lands like a Falcon 9” | (TechCrunch)

One Last Bite 😋

ChatGPT Recovers to Near-Peak Levels (Similarweb)