Three Ways to Ride the Flywheel of Cybersecurity AI

The business transformations that generative AI brings come with risks that AI itself can help secure in a kind of flywheel of progress. Companies who were quick to embrace the open internet more than 20 years ago were among the first to reap its benef…

Light Bulb Moment: NVIDIA CEO Sees Bright Future for AI-Powered Electric Grid

The electric grid and the utilities managing it have an important role to play in the next industrial revolution that’s being driven by AI and accelerated computing, said NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang Monday at the annual meeting of the Edison Electric Institute (EEI), an association of U.S. and international utilities. “The future of
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‘Create a Data Flywheel With AI,’ NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Tells Attendees at Snowflake Summit

AI gives every company an opportunity to turn its processes into a data flywheel, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang told thousands of attendees Monday at the Snowflake Data Cloud Summit. Companies need to “take all the most important processes they do, capture them in a data flywheel and turn that into the company’s AI
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Model Innovators: How Digital Twins Are Making Industries More Efficient

A manufacturing plant near Hsinchu, Taiwan’s Silicon Valley, is among facilities worldwide boosting energy efficiency with AI-enabled digital twins. A virtual model can help streamline operations, maximizing throughput for its physical counterpart, say engineers at Wistron, a global designer and manufacturer of computers and electronics systems. In the first of several use cases, the company
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NVIDIA, Huang Win Top Honors in Innovation, Engineering

NVIDIA today was named the world’s most innovative company by Fast Company magazine. The accolade comes on the heels of company founder and CEO Jensen Huang being inducted into the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. A team of several dozen journalists at Fast Company — a business media brand launched in 1995 by two Harvard
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Speak Like a Native: NVIDIA Parlays Win in Voice Challenge

Thanks to their work driving AI forward, Akshit Arora and Rafael Valle could someday speak to their spouses’ families in their native languages. Arora and Valle — along with colleagues Sungwon Kim and Rohan Badlani — won the LIMMITS ’24 challenge which asks contestants to recreate in real time a speaker’s voice in English or
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Buried Treasure: Startup Mines Clean Energy’s Prospects With Digital Twins

Mark Swinnerton aims to fight climate change by transforming abandoned mines into storage tanks of renewable energy. The CEO of startup Green Gravity is prototyping his ambitious vision in a warehouse 60 miles south of Sydney, Australia, and simulating it in NVIDIA Omniverse, a platform for building 3D workflows and applications. The concept requires some Read article >

Cool Robots of 2023: Meet the Autonomous Movers and Shakers

Outside the glare of the klieg lights that ChatGPT commanded this year, a troupe of autonomous machines nudged the frontiers of robotics forward. Here are six that showed special prowess — swimming, diving, gripping, seeing, strolling and flying through 2023. A Media Darling at CES Ella — a smart stroller from startup Glüxkind Technologies, of Read article >

Why GPUs Are Great for AI

GPUs have been called the rare Earth metals — even the gold — of artificial intelligence, because they’re foundational for today’s generative AI era. Three technical reasons, and many stories, explain why that’s so. Each reason has multiple facets well worth exploring, but at a high level: GPUs employ parallel processing. GPU systems scale up Read article >

Why GPUs Are Great for AI

GPUs have been called the rare Earth metals — even the gold — of artificial intelligence, because they’re foundational for today’s generative AI era. Three technical reasons, and many stories, explain why that’s so. Each reason has multiple facets well…

What Is Retrieval-Augmented Generation, aka RAG?

Editor’s note: This article, originally published on Nov. 15, 2023, has been updated. To understand the latest advancements in generative AI, imagine a courtroom. Judges hear and decide cases based on their general understanding of the law. Sometimes a case — like a malpractice suit or a labor dispute — requires special expertise, so judges
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What Is Retrieval-Augmented Generation?

To understand the latest advance in generative AI, imagine a courtroom. Judges hear and decide cases based on their general understanding of the law. Sometimes a case — like a malpractice suit or a labor dispute —  requires special expertise, so judges…

New Class of Accelerated, Efficient AI Systems Mark the Next Era of Supercomputing

NVIDIA today unveiled at SC23 the next wave of technologies that will lift scientific and industrial research centers worldwide to new levels of performance and energy efficiency. “NVIDIA hardware and software innovations are creating a new class of AI supercomputers,” said Ian Buck, vice president of the company’s high performance computing and hyperscale data center Read article >