Nvidia delivers the superchip that will become “the engine of the new industrial revolution”
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| Jensen Huang is the Taylor Swift of AI. The year’s biggest AI convention started with a bang, as Nvidia’s CEO delivered the goods and left thousands in attendance cheering. The company has had a blockbuster year, with its stock soaring some 260%. But investors had been waiting with bated breath to see whether the chip manufacturing could continue its winning streak. |
| By all indications, Nvidia delivered. CEO Jensen Huang unveiled a new generation of AI superchips called Blackwell that he says is destined to become “the engine of the new industrial revolution.” The chips are about twice the size of Nvidia’s previous AI-friendly GPUs and can be chained together for even more performance. |
| So what’s the big deal? Forget 10X, Huang claimed that the computing power on Nvidia’s chips has shot up by 1,000X in the past 8 years. That is a mind-boggling leap in computing power. |
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| Here’s what else you need to know: |
- Nvidia’s new tech will help AI models reach 10 trillion parameters — leagues above OpenAI GPT-3’s 175 billion.
- Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure are some of the platforms that have already signed up for the new tech.
- Nvidia announced Project GR00T, a new initiative to “create a general-purpose foundation model for humanoid robot learning.”
- The company also launched NIM, a software platform that aims to make it easier to deploy AI models into production.
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| The world’s top AI researchers and investors are stopping by the conference this week, including all eight authors of the groundbreaking Transformer paper that launched the generative AI boom in 2018. This is just the kickoff of what will likely prove to be a long announcement season, with Google, OpenAI, and Apple trying to one-up each other with their own AI releases.” |
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