🥟 Chao-Down #109 Bytedance purchases $1 billion worth of NVIDIA GPUs, Bill Gates and Xi Jinping discuss AI tech between US and China, Meta releases new text-to-speech model

Over the weekend, I participated in UC Berkeley’s AI LLM Hackathon as an open source mentor and judge, representing Microsoft and my product Semantic Kernel!

It was a great event with over 1500+ hackers from around the world building new generative AI products! Expect to see more vlogs and content from the event on my YouTube.

But until then, see the behind the scenes of what went into preparing for the event!

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

China's ByteDance Has Gobbled Up $1 Billion of Nvidia GPUs for AI This Year | Tom's Hardware)

AI in Hiring and Evaluating Workers: What Americans Think (Pew Research Center)

How A.I. Is Helping Architects Change Workplace Design (The New York Times)

Exclusive: Xi Jinping tells Bill Gates he welcomes U.S. AI tech in China (Reuters)

AI and media companies negotiate landmark deals over news content (Financial Times)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Some Intuition on Attention and the Transformer (eugeneyan.com)

youssefHosni/Data-Science-Interview-Questions-Answers: Curated list of data science interview questions and answers (Github)

LLM Fine Tuning Guide for Enterprises in 2023 (AI Multiple)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

AntonOsika/gpt-engineer: Specify what you want it to build, the AI asks for clarification, and then builds it. (Github)

lancedb/lance: Modern columnar data format for ML and LLMs implemented in Rust. Convert from parquet in 2 lines of code for 100x faster random access, vector index, and data versioning. (Github)

jncraton/languagemodels: Explore large language models on any computer with 512MB of RAM (Github)

Levanter — Legible, Scalable, Reproducible Foundation Models with JAX (Stanford)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

Infinite Photorealistic Worlds using Procedural Generation (link)

Introducing Voicebox: The first generative AI model for speech to generalize across tasks with state-of-the-art performance (facebook)

Bigger, Better, Faster: Human-level Atari with human-level efficiency (arxiv)

Can Language Models Teach Weaker Agents? Teacher Explanations Improve Students via Theory of Mind (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

How Huawei Got Caught Spying and Lost a $200 Million 5G Contract (Bloomberg)

Depression Hits US Appalachia Hardest as Cases Rise Nationwide (Bloomberg)

Potential Tax Increases in China Risk Political Backlash for Xi (Bloomberg)

New report flashes a warning light over 401(k) account balances (CNN Business)

The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens (WIRED)

One Last Bite 😋