🥟 Chao-Down 112 Latest Marvel series faces fan backlash for AI intro, China's underground market for NVIDIA AI chips, Dropbox launches universal personal search

“Secret Invasion”, the latest Marvel Cinematic Universe entrant, is facing backlash from fans for using AI-generated images in the series intro.

Amidst the context of the ongoing Hollywood strike and legitimate concerns of AI taking people’s jobs, it seems ill-timed to experiment with image generation models on such a high-profile Disney title.

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What happened in AI? 📰

'Secret Invasion' uses AI for intro sequence and fans are not happy (The Washington Post)

Inside China's underground market for high-end Nvidia AI chips (Reuters)

Major Publishing House to Replace Hundreds of Jobs With AI (Futurism)

Dropbox AI and Dash make it easier to find your files from all over the web (The Verge)

Jack Ma-Backed Ant Developing Large Language Model Technology (Bloomberg)

From ChatGPT to executive orders: Inside the White House’s urgent push to regulate AI (msn.com)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

GPU Programming: When, Why and How? — GPU programming: why, when and how? documentation (enccs.github.io)

Emerging Architectures for LLM Applications (a16z.com)

a16z-infra/ai-getting-started: A Javascript AI getting started stack for weekend projects, including image/text models, vector stores, auth, and deployment configs (Github)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

vllm-project/vllm: A high-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs (Github)

chengtan9907/OpenSTL: OpenSTL: A Comprehensive Benchmark of Spatio-Temporal Predictive Learning (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

Textbooks Are All You Need — We introduce phi-1, a new large language model for code, with significantly smaller size than competing models (arxiv)

SequenceMatch: Imitation Learning for Autoregressive Sequence Modelling with Backtracking (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Small tech companies are staying remote to attract workers, while Big Tech goes back to the office (Vox)

Everyone Has a Side Hustle Now. Is That a Good Thing? (SaaStr)

Trucking company advertises in 'American Truck Simulator' video game (The Washington Post)

The real story of how Facebook almost acquired Waze, but we ended up with Google (post.news)

Doctors Called to Step Up Anxiety Screening by Expert Panel (Bloomberg)

One Last Bite 😋