🥟 Chao-Down #227 Google unveils multimodal AI model Gemini, Generative AI and Big Tech's water problem, Meta and IBM form "AI Alliance" to promote open-source

At long last, Google just announced their Gemini foundation model! It’s positioned as Google’s “most capable AI model yet” and centers around multi-modality or being able to work with text, image, audio, and video data.

Interestingly enough it’ll come in the form of three models: Gemini Ultra, Gemini Pro, and Gemini Nano — the latter of which is meant to run on edge and mobile devices.

What do you think of Gemini?

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Introducing Gemini: Google’s most capable AI model yet (blog.google)

Meta and IBM launch ‘AI Alliance’ to promote open-source AI development | (The Guardian)

Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis Says Gemini Is a New Breed of AI (WIRED)

Microsoft’s Copilot is getting OpenAI’s latest models and a new code interpreter - (The Verge)

A New Trick Uses AI to Jailbreak AI Models—Including GPT-4 (WIRED)

Water: Why a 'thirsty' generative AI boom poses a problem for Big Tech (CNBC)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

The Five Pillars of Startup Impact - How Startups Can Innovate Our Way Out of America's Crises (digitalnative.tech)

microsoft/generative-ai-for-beginners: 12 Lessons, Get Started Building with Generative AI 🔗 (Github)

Learn from hundreds of real tech interview experiences (Onsites.fyi)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

eric-mitchell/direct-preference-optimization: Reference implementation for DPO (Direct Preference Optimization) (Github)

Seamless Communication - A family of AI research models that enable more natural and authentic communication across languages (AI at Meta)

ykhli/local-ai-stack: A starter kit to build *local-only* AI apps that cost $0 to run -- starting with document Q&A. Written in Javascript (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

Efficient Dataset Distillation via Minimax Diffusion (arxiv)

Don't Make Your LLM an Evaluation Benchmark Cheater (arxiv.org)

Can Generalist Foundation Models Outcompete Special-Purpose Tuning? Case Study in Medicine (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Chrome’s next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates | (Ars Technica)'

Dying malls get second lives as lifestyle hubs (axios.com)

‘How do you reduce a national dish to a powder?’: the weird, secretive world of crisp flavours (The Guardian)

Exercise, diet and mood can improve vaccine effectiveness (The Washington Post)

World’s biggest experimental nuclear fusion reactor launched in Japan (The Guardian)

One Last Bite 😋

Is it cheaper to rent or buy property? (economist.com)