🥟 Chao-Down #258 Google Gemini beats GPT4 on latest leaderboard, AI hiring frenzy fuels layoffs in other tech areas, ByteDance creates AI model to let users instantly speak in another person's voice

Are we experiencing a new way to do search? We’ve already seen some startups like Perplexity AI, You.com, and even Microsoft Copilot show us versions of the future. But one company is taking a fresh take on the space.

Over the weekend, the internet browser company Arc released their latest product Arc Search for the iPhone that “browses for you.”

The previous search experience involved going to Google, typing a query, and clicking on one of 10 blue links to find your info.

This time Arc Search provides a “Browse for me” button which will do a web search on your behalf of 6 relevant webpages and construct a brand-new website that contains the answer to your query. The experience still has some kinks to work out like how it selects the 6 webpages it sources from and how it will handle citation and copyright, but it’s a refreshing take on how we will search information in the future.

Check out CEO Josh Miller’s original Tweet storm to see the full details and play with the app yourself!

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Google Gemini Pro moves to second place in chatbot performance table (analyticsindiamag.com)

Taiwan Builds Own AI Language Model to Counter China’s Influence (bloomberglaw.com)

AI hiring frenzy to fuel layoffs in other tech segments this year (CNBC)

ByteDance AI Model Lets Users Instantly Speak in Another Person's Voice (businessinsider.com)

Researchers Say the Deepfake Biden Robocall Was Likely Made With Tools From AI Startup ElevenLabs (WIRED)

Former Google CEO's New Startup Will Build AI Attack Drones (Extremetech)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Why the new AI Pin will be a usability nightmare (UX Collective)

Vertical Software 2.0. Expansion opportunities in vertical software (Point Nine Land)

Five "Cons" To Adding a Free Edition (SaaStr)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

janhq/jan: Jan is an open source alternative to ChatGPT that runs 100% offline on your computer (Github)

YangLing0818/RPG-DiffusionMaster: Mastering Text-to-Image Diffusion: Recaptioning, Planning, and Generating with Multimodal LLMs (PRG) (Github)

vectara/hallucination-leaderboard: Leaderboard Comparing LLM Performance at Producing Hallucinations when Summarizing Short Documents (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

Contrastive Preference Optimization: Pushing the Boundaries of LLM Performance in Machine Translation (arxiv)

WARM: On the Benefits of Weight Averaged Reward Models (arxiv)

Benchmarking Large Multimodal Models against Common Corruptions (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

What the IRS Knows About Your Online Sales This Year - (WSJ)

Do Humidifiers Need Distilled Water to Keep Running All Winter? (Bloomberg)

The Rooftop Solar Industry Could Be On the Verge of Collapse (TIME)

Caffeine’s Dirty Little Secret (The Atlantic)

What's behind the tech industry's mass layoffs in 2024? (NPR)

The Danger of Relying on Anti-Anxiety Drugs (WSJ)

One Last Bite 😋