🥟 Chao-Down #271 Cohere for AI launches open-source LLM for 101 low-resourced languages, Airbnb plans to make the "ultimate concierge" with AI, SEC warns AI firms against illegal "AI-washing"

For those following along the work my team and I have been doing with Semantic Kernel, we recently published our Spring 2024 roadmap!

It features are enterprise and production focus with plans to bring the Java and Python version of the SDK to 1.0 parity. It also has many future-looking efforts to make AI agents a reality!

Check it out!

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Microsoft and OpenAI say hackers are using ChatGPT to improve cyberattacks (The Verge)

AI Is Starting to Threaten White-Collar Jobs. Few Industries Are Immune. (WSJ)

Cohere for AI launches open source LLM for 101 languages (VentureBeat)

Airbnb plans to use AI, including its GamePlanner acquisition, to create the ‘ultimate concierge’ (TechCrunch)

Don’t let AI hype lead you into illegal ‘AI-washing,’ SEC chair warns companies and investment advisers (CNN Business)

Raising Trillions of Dollars Might Be the Easy Part of Altman’s Chip Plan (WSJ)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

4 AI launch lessons: what we learned & where we went wrong (notion.so)

Engineering Practices for LLM Application Development (martinfowler.com)

A Complete Guide to Customer Acquisition: How to Get More Customers (close.com)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

RVC-Boss/GPT-SoVITS: 1 min voice data can also be used to train a good TTS model! (few shot voice cloning) (Github)

sgl-project/sglang: SGLang is a structured generation language designed for large language models (LLMs). It makes your interaction with models faster and more controllable. (Github)

johannschopplich/unlazy: 🪧 Universal lazy loading library for placeholder images leveraging native browser APIs (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

LLM Agents can Autonomously Hack Websites (arxiv)

AutoMathText: Autonomous Data Selection with Language Models for Mathematical Texts (arxiv)

Whispers in the Machine: Confidentiality in LLM-integrated Systems (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Microsoft prepares to take Xbox everywhere (The Verge)

A look at Internet traffic trends during Super Bowl LVIII (cloudflare.com)

Global cancer rates are expected to rise 77% to hit 35M by 2050, warns WHO (Fortune Well)

'I've Never Seen It This Bad:' Game Developers Explain the Huge Layoffs Hitting Riot, Epic, and More (IGN)

Elon Musk war on Delaware may change how companies make big decisions (CNBC)

Apple Vision Pro Could Take Four Generations to Reach 'Ideal Form' (MacRumors)

One Last Bite 😋