🥟 Chao-Down #234 DeepMind outdoes mathematicians on unsolved math problem, GM's Cruise lays off 24% of workforce, Waymo launches curbside robotaxi pickup at Phoenix airport

We just wrapped up the v1.0 hackathon for the Semantic Kernel (the project I’m working on)!

A lot of great projects were built, and the community provided invaluable feedback for us to stabilize the interfaces and the SDK. We’re excited to release 1.0 very soon!

Here were some of our favorite submissions from the hackathon. Check them out!

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Cruise slashes 24% of self-driving car workforce in sweeping layoffs (TechCrunch)

Waymo launches curbside robotaxi pickup at Phoenix airport (TechCrunch)

Pope Francis calls for treaty to regulate artificial intelligence (The Washington Post)

Putin quizzed by apparent AI version of himself during live phone-in (CNBC)

An ‘AI’ fast food drive-thru is mostly just human workers in the Philippines (The Verge)

DeepMind AI outdoes human mathematicians on unsolved problem (Nature)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Unbundling the Game Engine: The Rise of Next Generation 3D Creation Engines (a16z.com)

Vertical AI - Why a Vertical Approach is Key to Building Enduring AI Applications (Greylock)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

llmware-ai/llmware: Providing enterprise-grade LLM-based development framework, tools, and fine-tuned models. (Github)

bricks-cloud/BricksLLM: Simplifying LLM ops in production (Github)

KwaiKEG/KwaiAgents: A generalized information-seeking agent system with Large Language Models (LLMs). (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

HyperDreamer: Hyper-Realistic 3D Content Generation and Editing from a Single Image (arxiv)

Magicoder: Source Code Is All You Need (arxiv)

Rethinking Compression: Reduced Order Modelling of Latent Features in Large Language Models (arxiv)

Weak-to-strong generalization (openai.com)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

A Tax Rule Change Is Threatening the Survival of Some Businesses (WSJ)

How Gen Z Is Speaking Their Mind at Work (businessinsider.com)

Is the Texas boom town of Austin losing its luster? (TechCrunch)

The Rise and Fall of the ‘IBM Way’ (The Atlantic)

Why You Should Wear Sunscreen In Winter and Indoors (Bloomberg)

Forget quiet quitting, employers are doing quiet layoffs now (axios.com)

One Last Bite 😋