GTC 2022

The Wheel Deal: ‘Racer RTX’ Demo Revs to Photorealistic Life, Built on NVIDIA Omniverse

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NVIDIA artists ran their engines at full throttle for the stunning Racer RTX demo, which debuted at last week’s GTC keynote, showcasing the power of NVIDIA Omniverse and the new GeForce RTX 4090 GPU. “Our goal was to create something that had never been done before,” said Gabriele Leone, creative director at NVIDIA, who led Read article >

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World-Class: NVIDIA Research Builds AI Model to Populate Virtual Worlds With 3D Objects, Characters

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The massive virtual worlds created by growing numbers of companies and creators could be more easily populated with a diverse array of 3D buildings, vehicles, characters and more — thanks to a new AI model from NVIDIA Research. Trained using only 2D images, NVIDIA GET3D generates 3D shapes with high-fidelity textures and complex geometric details. Read article >

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Continental and AEye Join NVIDIA DRIVE Sim Sensor Ecosystem, Providing Rich Capabilities for AV Development

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Autonomous vehicle sensors require the same rigorous testing and validation as the car itself, and one simulation platform is up to the task. Global tier-1 supplier Continental and software-defined lidar maker AEye announced this week at NVIDIA GTC that they will migrate their intelligent lidar sensor model into NVIDIA DRIVE Sim. The companies are the Read article >

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Inside AI: NVIDIA DRIVE Ecosystem Creates Pioneering In-Cabin Features With NVIDIA DRIVE IX

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As personal transportation becomes electrified and automated, time in the vehicle has begun to resemble that of a living space rather than a mind-numbing commute. Companies are creating innovative ways for drivers and passengers to make the most of this experience, using the flexibility and modularity of NVIDIA DRIVE IX. In-vehicle technology companies Cerence, Smart Read article >

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HARMAN to Deliver Immersive In-Vehicle Experience With NVIDIA DRIVE IX

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Breakthroughs in centralized, high performance computing aren’t just opening up new functionality for autonomous driving, but for the in-vehicle experience as well. With the introduction of NVIDIA DRIVE Thor, automakers can build unified AI compute platforms that combine advanced driver-assistance systems and in-vehicle infotainment. The centralized NVIDIA DRIVE architecture supports novel features in the vehicle, Read article >

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Now You’re Speaking My Language: NVIDIA Riva Sets New Bar for Fully Customizable Speech AI

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Whether for virtual assistants, transcriptions or contact centers, voice AI services are turning words and conversations into bits and bytes of business magic. Today at GTC, NVIDIA announced new additions to NVIDIA Riva, a GPU-accelerated software development kit for building and deploying speech AI applications. Riva’s pretrained models are now offered in seven languages, including Read article >

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No Hang Ups With Hangul: KT Trains Smart Speakers, Customer Call Centers With NVIDIA AI

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South Korea’s most popular AI voice assistant, GiGA Genie, converses with 8 million people each day. The AI-powered speaker from telecom company KT can control TVs, offer real-time traffic updates and complete a slew of other home-assistance tasks based on voice commands. It has mastered its conversational skills in the highly complex Korean language thanks Read article >

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New NVIDIA DGX System Software and Infrastructure Solutions Supercharge Enterprise AI

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At GTC today, NVIDIA unveiled a number of updates to its DGX portfolio to power new breakthroughs in enterprise AI development. NVIDIA DGX H100 systems are now available for order. These infrastructure building blocks support NVIDIA’s full-stack enterprise AI solutions. With 32 petaflops of performance at FP8 precision, NVIDIA DGX H100 delivers a leap in Read article >

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Keynote Wrap-Up: NVIDIA CEO Unveils Next-Gen RTX GPUs, AI Workflows in the Cloud

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New cloud services to support AI workflows and the launch of a new generation of GeForce RTX GPUs featured today in NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s GTC keynote, which was packed with new systems, silicon, and software. “Computing is advancing at incredible speeds, the engine propelling this rocket is accelerated computing, and its fuel is AI,” Read article >

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NVIDIA Omniverse ACE Enables Easier, Faster Deployment of Interactive Avatars

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Meet Violet, an AI-powered customer service assistant ready to take your order. Unveiled this week at GTC, Violet is a cloud-based avatar that represents the latest evolution in avatar development through NVIDIA Omniverse Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE), a suite of cloud-native AI microservices that make it easier to build and deploy intelligent virtual assistants and Read article >

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New NVIDIA Maxine Cloud-Native Architecture Delivers Breakthrough Audio and Video Quality at Scale

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The latest release of NVIDIA Maxine is paving the way for real-time audio and video communications. Whether for a video conference, a call made to a customer service center, or a live stream, Maxine enables clear communications to enhance virtual interactions. NVIDIA Maxine is a suite of GPU-accelerated AI software development kits (SDKs) and cloud-native Read article >

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Why the New NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchip Is Ideal for Next-Gen Recommender Systems

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Recommender systems, the economic engines of the internet, are getting a new turbocharger: the NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchip. Every day, recommenders serve up trillions of search results, ads, products, music and news stories to billions of people. They’re among the most important AI models of our time because they’re incredibly effective at finding in the Read article >

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NVIDIA Expands Large Language Models to Biology

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As scientists probe for new insights about DNA, proteins and other building blocks of life, the NVIDIA BioNeMo framework — announced today at NVIDIA GTC — will accelerate their research. NVIDIA BioNeMo is a framework for training and deploying large biomolecular language models at supercomputing scale — helping scientists better understand disease and find therapies Read article >

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NVIDIA Introduces Open-Source Project to Accelerate Computer Vision Cloud Applications

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Promising to help process images faster and more efficiently at a vast scale, NVIDIA introduced CV-CUDA, an open-source library for building accelerated end-to-end computer vision and image processing pipelines. The majority of internet traffic is video. Increasingly, this video will be augmented by AI special effects and computer graphics. To add to this complexity, fast-growing Read article >

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Growing Range of Researchers, Scientists Adopt NVIDIA cuQuantum and QODA 

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In her 18 years as a competitive figure skater, Bettina Heim learned to land a lutz with speed and grace. Now, armed with a Ph.D. in quantum computing, she’s helping Microsoft Azure Quantum carve out a position at the cutting edge of cloud services. “I’ve always been attracted to interesting problems and working hard to Read article >

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Breaking Away: ZEEKR Selects DRIVE Thor as NVIDIA Autonomous Vehicle Partners Accelerate Innovation

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The NVIDIA DRIVE ecosystem is pulling further ahead of the pack with intelligent, software-defined vehicles powered by the high-performance, scalable compute solutions announced today at NVIDIA GTC. Premium electric-mobility brand ZEEKR will be the first customer for the next-generation NVIDIA DRIVE Thor centralized AI computer, with production starting in 2025. Momentum also continues for the Read article >

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NVIDIA Robotics Software Jumps to the Cloud, Enabling Collaborative, Accelerated Development of Robots

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Robotics developers can span global teams testing for navigation of environments, underscoring the importance of easy access to simulation software for quick input and iterations. At GTC today, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang announced that the Isaac Sim robotics simulation platform is now available on the cloud. Developers will have three options to access Read article >

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NVIDIA Medical Edge AI Computing Platform Selected by Top Robotic and Digital Surgery Startups

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NVIDIA today introduced the NVIDIA IGX platform for medical edge AI use cases, bringing advanced security and safety to intelligent machines and human-machine collaboration. IGX is a hardware and software platform that delivers secure, low-latency AI inference to meet the clinical demand for instant insights from a range of devices and sensors for medical applications, Read article >

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New NVIDIA IGX Platform Helps Create Safe, Autonomous Factories of the Future

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NVIDIA today introduced the IGX edge AI computing platform for secure, safe autonomous systems. IGX brings together hardware with programmable safety extensions, commercial operating-system support and powerful AI software — enabling organizations to safely and securely deliver AI in support of human-machine collaboration. The all-in-one platform enables next-level safety, security and perception for use cases Read article >

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NVIDIA Isaac Nova Orin Opens New Era of Innovation for Autonomous Mobile Robots

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Next-day packages. New vehicle deliveries. Fresh organic produce. Each of these modern conveniences is accelerated by fleets of mobile robots. NVIDIA today is announcing updates to Nova Orin — an autonomous mobile robot (AMR) reference platform — that advance its roadmap. We’re releasing details of three reference platform configurations. Two use a single Jetson AGX Read article >

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