🥟 Chao-Down #156 NVIDIA blows past earnings expectations, Beijing limits use of generative AI in healthcare, Microsoft makes AI design tool widely available in Edge, Meta publicly releases Code Llama

If NVIDIA’s quarterly results proved anything, it’s that AI demand is real and growing!

Yesterday, NVIDIA reported second-quarter results that blew past its own revenue guidance and surpassed all of Wall Street’s expectations. They even indicated that next quarter would continue the acceleration.

In just one quarter(!), Nvidia's revenue reached $13.5 billion, more than doubling last year's second-quarter revenue due to a 171-percent growth in its data center business. Net income grew to $6.2 billion in the past quarter amounting to a gross margin of 70 percent. A large reason for that was the insatiable demand for GPUs.

If you’re building in AI, what a time to be alive.

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

The A.I. Industry’s Desperate Hunt for GPUs Amid a Chip Shortage (The New York Times)

MediaTek is about to bring powerful AI apps to some Android phones (Digital Trends)

IBM taps AI to translate COBOL code to Java (TechCrunch)

US Judge Rules AI-Generated Art Not Protected by Copyright Law (ARTnews.com)

Beijing to limit use of generative AI in online healthcare activities, including medical diagnosis, amid growing interest in ChatGPT-like services (South China Morning Post)

Microsoft’s AI-powered design tool is now widely available in Edge (The Verge)

Meta Releases Code Llama, a Coding Version of Llama 2 (WIRED)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

AVA Discovery View: Surfacing Authentic Moments (Netflix TechBlog)

How Games Typically Get Built - The differences between games development and more “standard” software engineering, roles, and how games are typically built. (Pragmatic Engineer)

Gamification Strategies to Engage and Retain Users (inturact.com)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

GitHub - chrieke/prettymapp: 🖼️ Create beautiful maps from OpenStreetMap data in a streamlit webapp (Github)

Introducing Code Llama, an AI Tool for Coding (Meta)

bentoml/OneDiffusion: OneDiffusion: Run any Stable Diffusion models and fine-tuned weights with ease (github.com)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

Self-Alignment with Instruction Backtranslation (arxiv)

SpeechX: Neural Codec Language Model as a Versatile Speech Transformer (arxiv)

rese1f/StableVideo: [ICCV 2023] StableVideo: Text-driven Consistency-aware Diffusion Video Editing (Github)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

US Office Workers Call in Sick on August 24 More Than Any Other Day (Bloomberg)

Chandrayaan-3 landing: India becomes the fourth country ever to land a spacecraft on the moon (CNN)

Reducing inequality benefits everyone — so why isn’t it happening? (Nature)

Fatigue Is So Much More Than Being Tired (The Atlantic)

Why you should go to sleep at the same time all week (BBC News)

One Last Bite 😋