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Microsoft has hired Sam Altman and Greg Brockman to lead its new advanced AI research team 

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TLDR 2023-11-21

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Big Tech & Startups

Microsoft hires former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (4 minute read)

Microsoft has hired Sam Altman and Greg Brockman to lead its new advanced AI research team. Altman will be the CEO of this new group. The new team will include some key OpenAI talent. Former Twitch CEO and co-founder Emmett Shear has been named as interim CEO at OpenAI. Altman had been negotiating a return to OpenAI, but the company's board refused to step down and let him return. Microsoft still has a multibillion-dollar investment in OpenAI and will remain committed to its partnership with the company.
Hundreds of OpenAI employees threaten to resign and join Microsoft (4 minute read)

Most of the staff at OpenAI have threatened to resign from the company and join Microsoft. Microsoft has assured OpenAI staff that there are positions for all OpenAI employees in its new advanced AI research team should they choose to join. Over 650 out of a total of 770 OpenAI staff have signed a letter saying they will leave if the board doesn't reinstate Sam Altman and Greg Brockman and then resign. The board seems to have decided to remain in place - they have named a new CEO, Emmett Shear.
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Science & Futuristic Technology

NYC Will Soon Be Home to 15 Robot-Run Vegetarian Restaurants From Chipotle’s Founder (2 minute read)

Kernel, a new endeavor from the founder of Chipotle, is a vegetarian fast-casual restaurant that will be operated mostly by robots. There are plans to open at least 15 locations with the first opening by early 2024. The remainder will be on track for New York City in the next two years. Each location will employ three workers who will receive more pay and better benefits than people working at other chains.
‘Electrocaloric’ heat pump could transform air conditioning (2 minute read)

A new type of heat pump developed by materials scientists at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology in Belvaux uses electric fields and a special ceramic to warm or cool air. The technology combines a number of existing techniques and could be potentially competitive with heat pumps without the need for refrigerants in a smaller space. It still needs to be refined further before it is ready for commercialization.
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Programming, Design & Data Science

Those who have maintained forks of OSS at work, what was your experience like? (Lobsters Thread)

This thread looks at the experience of those who have maintained open-source software at work, particularly those with forks of abandoned projects and forks that diverged from upstream. The replies in the thread are long and detailed.
A guide to LLM inference and performance (18 minute read)

Using the full power of the GPU during LLM inference requires knowing if the inference is compute-bound or memory-bound. Calculating the operations per byte possible on a given GPU and comparing it to the arithmetic of a model's attention layers reveals where the bottleneck is. This information can be used to pick an appropriate GPU for model inference and use techniques like batching to better utilize GPU resources.
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Miscellaneous

OpenAI’s Misalignment and Microsoft’s Gain (20 minute read)

OpenAI fired Sam Altman on Friday. Altman was quickly hired by Microsoft. This has caused a talent drain within OpenAI, with a good portion of it going to Microsoft. The situation highlights the problems of running a non-profit organization. This article looks at OpenAI's non-profit model, the issues within OpenAI, Microsoft's involvement, and how these recent events will change the AI landscape.
A secret Google deal let Spotify completely bypass Android’s app store fees (2 minute read)

Spotify doesn't pay any commission fees when it uses its own payment processor on Android. It only pays a 4% fee when users choose to use Google as their payment processor. Google fought to keep the terms of its deal with Spotify secret during its antitrust trial as it could damage negotiations with other app developers who might want more generous fees. Spotify's unprecedented popularity was enough to justify a bespoke deal.
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Quick Links

Cruise co-founder resigns following CEO exit (2 minute read)

Cruise's co-founder and chief product officer Daniel Kan has resigned just a day after the company's CEO Kyle Vogt announced his resignation.
Who is Emmett Shear, OpenAI’s third CEO in three days? (7 minute read)

Emmett Shear is the co-founder of the video game live-streaming company Twitch.
YouTube is reportedly slowing down videos for Firefox users (3 minute read)

Some Firefox users are experiencing a five-second delay when loading YouTube videos.
Friends Don't Let Friends Make Bad Graphs (GitHub Repo)

This opinionated essay talks about good and bad practices in data visualization with examples and explanations.
The Cost of Index Everything (2 minute read)

More information isn't always better - index size is a trade-off against retrieval quality.
Sam Altman is still trying to return as OpenAI CEO (6 minute read)

Multiple sources say that Sam Altman and Greg Brockman are willing to return to OpenAI if the remaining board members who fired Altman stepped aside.

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