🥟 Chao-Down #293 NVIDIA announces Blackwell AI chip at GTC, Google researchers unveil "VLOGGER" AI that brings still photos to life, AI startup Suno looks to be the ChatGPT of music

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang gave an impressive 2 hour long(!) keynote yesterday at NVIDIA’s GTC conference for developers. It was a packed house, reaching what some have dubbed the company’s “Taylor-Swift moment”. Funny enough, Jensen “shook off “the comment, saying he hadn’t trained for the presentation by rehearsing it on a treadmill like Taylor did for her Eras tour.

For me, I was particularly intrigued by NVIDIA’s new product they are calling NIMs which are containerized microservices designed to bring a full-stack solution to enterprises building AI applications. As someone building AI apps, stitching together the different models and managing the endpoints can be a pain, so NIMs seem like a decent take from NVIDIA to solve these problems.

So many more announcements were made, especially what many are paying attention to: the latest chips to power the next generation of AI.

If you missed the keynote, catch the talk below:

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Google researchers unveil 'VLOGGER', an AI that can bring still photos to life (VentureBeat)

Thanks to generative AI, advertising's business models will be reinvented (Fast Company)

OpenAI's video generator Sora might allow nudity. Experts are worried (qz.com)

YouTube now requires creators to disclose when realistic content was made with AI (TechCrunch)

Nvidia announces GB200 Blackwell AI chip, launching later this year (CNBC)

Inside Suno AI, the Start-up Creating a ChatGPT for Music (Rolling Stone)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

The Trap of Tying Your Identity to Your Job Title. (Substack)

SaaS Growth Report 2023 - How SaaS Businesses Grow From Zero to $30M ARR and Beyond (ChartMogul)

The Curse of the Senior Software Engineer - Dmitry Kudryavtsev (yieldcode.blog)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

xai-org/grok-1: Grok open release (Github)

hpcaitech/Open-Sora: Open-Sora: Democratizing Efficient Video Production for All (Github)

albertan017/LLM4Decompile: Reverse Engineering: Decompiling Binary Code with Large Language Models (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

From One to Many: Expanding the Scope of Toxicity Mitigation in Language Models (arxiv)

Cappy: Outperforming and boosting large multi-task language models with a small scorer (Google Research Blog)

Plum: Prompt Learning using Metaheuristic (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

MrBeast and Prime Video announce ‘largest game show in history’ (TechCrunch)

Why your doctor’s office is spamming you with appointment reminders (CNN Business)

Apparently Healthy, but Diagnosed With Alzheimer’s? (The New York Times)

Plumber Jobs Have High Demand in US With Competitive Salary (Bloomberg)

Laid-off techies struggle to find jobs with cuts at highest since 2001 (CNBC)

The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood (The Atlantic)

One Last Bite 😋