🥟 Chao-Down #278 Microsoft invests in French OpenAI competitor Mistral, NVIDIA announces new RTX 500 GPUs for AI-enhanced workflows, Study finds that AI can significantly help detect colon cancer

Will we soon see more smartphones adopt an AI-as-a-service model?

From the Pixel 8, Galaxy S24, to even new phones that are yet to be released, we’re witnessing generative AI features become central to smartphone makers’ offerings. While these features are currently free (Samsung says customers can use them freely until 2025), they can quickly move behind a paywall in the near future.

Deutsche Telekom, Europe's biggest telecom operator, introduced a smartphone at Mobile World Congress that relies on AI instead of apps to perform tasks for users. The company's "T-phone" will feature an app-less interface and can do things like recommend vacation destinations, buy items, or share photos and videos with contacts. Details are scant about how they intend to deliver this, but one can imagine a subscription will be in play.

As our phones become more advanced, will we be willing to pay the premium to continue to have the latest tech at our fingertips?

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Introducing Mistral-Large on Azure in partnership with Mistral AI (Microsoft Azure Blog)

NVIDIA RTX 500 and 1000 Professional Ada Generation Laptop GPUs Drive AI-Enhanced Workflows From Anywhere (NVIDIA Blog)

Study finds AI-assisted polyp detection system significantly improves colonoscopy (Medical Xpress)

Why the metaphors we use to describe AI will shape its future (charterworks.com)

AI Is Accelerating the Loss of Our Scarcest Natural Resource: Water (Forbes)

We're slowly moving to a subscription phone, thanks to AI (androidauthority.com)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

How Capable Leaders Navigate Uncertainty and Ambiguity (Substack)

Engineering is more about people than tech (eng-leadership.com)

How to find meaning in your science career: six expert tips (Nature)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

MobileLLM: Optimizing Sub-billion Parameter Language Models for On-Device Use Cases (arxiv)

Bay Bridge: A supercomputer built for startups (sfcompute.com)

Sally-SH/VSP-LLM- Visual Speech Processing incorporated with LLMs (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

LongRoPE: Extending LLM Context Window Beyond 2 Million Tokens (arxiv)

YOLOv9: Learning What You Want to Learn Using Programmable Gradient Information (arxiv)

User-LLM: Efficient LLM Contextualization with User Embeddings (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Half of College Grads Are Working Jobs That Don’t Use Their Degrees (WSJ)

The Diet Shift That Makes the Biggest Impact on Climate Change (Bloomberg)

More Adolescent Boys Have Eating Disorders. Two Experts Discuss Why. (The New York Times)

This tiny, tamper-proof ID tag can authenticate almost anything (MIT News)

Secret Mathematical Patterns Revealed in Bach's Music (Scientific American)

A New Startup Wants to Turn the Sugar You Eat Into Fiber (WIRED)

One Last Bite 😋

Americans spending 11.3% of income on food, most in 30 years (nypost.com)