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Italian AI startup iGenius announced yesterday local time that it is deploying an AI supercomputer called Colosseum (note: meaning Colosseum of Rome). The supercomputer is based on NVIDIA's Grace Blackwell supercomputer chip, and will be one of the largest NVIDIA DGX SuperPODs in the world based on that chip. iGenius says the Colosseum supercomputer will eventually contain thousands of Grace Blackwell superchips with advanced liquid cooling and is expected to boost...

Musk's AI startup xAI has ordered $1.08 billion worth of GB200 AI servers from NVIDIA and has been given priority delivery, DigiTimes reports. NVIDIA is expected to start delivering the servers in January 2025, and they will be manufactured by Foxconn. Musk contacted NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang directly to discuss the order for xAI's GB200 servers, the report said. Prioritizing NVIDIA's AI servers will help xAI better achieve its goals. Jen-Hsun Huang ...

NVIDIA published a blog post on November 25, announcing the launch of music generation AI model Fugatto, claiming that it is "the world's most flexible sound machine", which can be finely controlled sound generation. NVIDIA said the tool is like a "Swiss Army Knife" in the field of sound, not only can create music, modify the sound, but also the flexibility to mix a variety of music, vocals and sound effects, and even create unprecedented sounds. Users simply type in a text description or insert some audio, and Fugatto generates corresponding music clips, sound effects, and even changes the accent and emotion of vocals based on the description. For example, the user...

Bloomberg yesterday (November 25) released a blog post, reported that Amazon in order to reduce dependence on Nvidia, has launched a "moon landing" (moonshot) plan, hoping to deploy 100,000 second-generation self-developed chips, improve data processing efficiency and reduce the cost of AI chip procurement. 1AI cited sources reported that Amazon set up an engineering laboratory in Austin, Texas, and set up a specialized team of engineers dedicated to the development of AI chips. The source said the lab atmosphere is similar to a startup, with engineers focusing on circuit board and cooling system improvements to optimize un...

Jen-Hsun Huang, Founder and CEO of NVIDIA, was awarded an honorary doctorate degree in engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. On that day, he appeared at the degree conferral ceremony and delivered a speech, talking about the changes and outlook of artificial intelligence, as well as his message to graduates. 1AI noted that Jen-Hsun Huang also engaged in an insightful conversation with Council Chairman Shen Xiangyang. Jen-Hsun Huang mentioned that three types of robots are expected to achieve mass production and are almost limited to these three, and that any other types of robots that have appeared in history have struggled to achieve mass production. The three types of robots are: automobiles, because we've spent the last 150 to 200 years...

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) held an honorary doctorate degree conferral ceremony and a doctoral graduation ceremony on November 23, in which it awarded an honorary doctorate in engineering to Jen-Hsun Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. 1AI noted that in addition to Jen-Hsun Huang being awarded an honorary doctorate in engineering, the list of recipients also included actor Tony Leung Chiu-Wai (honorary doctorate in humanities), 2013 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Michael Levitt (honorary doctorate in science), and Fields Medalist David Mumford (honorary doctorate in science). According to the HKUST Council, Jen-Hsun Huang has led NVIDIA to achieve great success in accelerated computing over the past 30 years...

U.S. chipmaker NVIDIA plans to invest in several cities in Indonesia, including a school focused on artificial intelligence in Central Java, Indonesian Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka said on Thursday. Raka revealed that NVIDIA Chief Executive Officer Jen-Hsun Huang conveyed the investment plans during his visit to Indonesia last week, but Raka did not provide more details about those plans. NVIDIA yesterday announced revenues of $35.1 billion for the third quarter ended Oct. 27, 2024, up from ...

Nov. 20, 2011 - NVIDIA announced two new Earth-2-based NVIDIA NIM microservices at SC24 on Nov. 18, Pacific Time that increase the simulation speed of climate change models in NVIDIA Earth-2 by 500 times. Earth-2 is a digital twin cloud platform for simulating and visualizing weather and climate conditions. A Bloomberg report shows that insured losses from natural disasters in the first half of 2024 will be about $62 billion (current...

Nov. 19, 2011 - NVIDIA unveiled two new pieces of AI hardware at the SC24 supercomputing conference yesterday, the H200 NVL PCIe GPU and the GB200 NVL4 supercomputer chip, according to NVIDIA, which said that about 70 percent of enterprise racks provide less than 20kW of power and are air-cooled. NVIDIA says that about 70% of enterprise racks provide less than 20kW of power and are air-cooled, and the H200 NVL in PCIe AIC form factor is a relatively low-power, air-cooled AI compute card for these environments. The H200 NVL is dual-slot thick, with a maximum TDP of ...

At NVIDIA AI Summit Japan 2024, NVIDIA announced a series of collaborations with SoftBank aimed at accelerating AI initiatives in Japan while unlocking billions of dollars in AI revenue opportunities for telecom providers worldwide. NVIDIA revealed that SoftBank is utilizing the NVIDIA AI Aerial Accelerated Computing Platform to successfully pilot the world's first telecom network that combines AI and 5G, stating that "this is a breakthrough in computing that opens up a potentially multi-billion-dollar AI revenue stream for telecom operators." SoftBank ...

Chip giant Nvidia is in talks with Elon Musk about a potential investment in xAI, people familiar with the matter say, according to the New York Post. xAI is an AI company founded by Musk that has developed Grok, a large language model currently deployed on social media platform X. The company has also developed a large language model called Grok. Although Grok launched later than competitors such as OpenAI's ChatGPT, it has grown and evolved very quickly. While NVIDIA has yet to comment on a potential investment in xAI, its CEO Jen-Hsun Huang has been very supportive...

Nov. 4 (Bloomberg) -- NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang has asked SK Hynix to supply next-generation, high-bandwidth memory chips known as HBM4 six months ahead of schedule, SK Group Chairman Choi Tae-won said, according to a Reuters report today. SK Hynix plans to launch the first HBM4 products with 12-layer DRAM stacks in the second half of 2025, with 16-layer stacked HBMs launching slightly later in 2026. SK Hynix and TSMC signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in April this year, announcing that they will collaborate on HBM in...

October 27 news, Denmark launched the country's first AI supercomputer, named after the Danish mythological goddess Gefion, aimed at promoting breakthroughs in quantum computing, clean energy, biotechnology and other fields, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang and the King of Denmark attended the unveiling ceremony. Gefion is a NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD supercomputer powered by 1528 NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs using NVIDIA's Quantum-2 InfiniBand net...

October 25, according to "AI Robot Tea House" reported on October 22, Innovation Works Chairman and CEO Kai-Fu Lee recently expressed his views on the current AI situation in a private forum: the current AI ecosystem may be gradually moving towards "unsustainable! In his opinion, the current AI ecosystem may be gradually becoming "unsustainable". In his opinion, at this stage, except for graphics card giant NVIDIA, which is reaping a full harvest financially, other players in the AI field, including application developers and enterprises, are struggling to make a meager profit, and the entire AI ecosystem shows a serious "imbalance". Li Kaifu pointed out that, in general, application...

NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang told thousands of business technology leaders that companies must transform into AI-driven organizations to embrace what he called the "new industrial revolution," the Wall Street Journal reported today. Jen-Hsun Huang said NVIDIA is already putting this philosophy into practice by actively applying AI to areas such as chip design, software writing and supply chain management. In the long term, Huang said, NVIDIA is building what he called an "AI brain. The idea is to gather knowledge about a company's operations, business processes and customer interactions and hand it over to AI, with the ultimate goal of enabling CIOs and CEOs to...

NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang told thousands of business technology leaders that companies must transform into AI-driven organizations to embrace what he called the "new industrial revolution," the Wall Street Journal reported today. Jen-Hsun Huang said NVIDIA is already putting this philosophy into practice by actively applying AI to areas such as chip design, software writing and supply chain management. In the long term, Huang said, NVIDIA is building what he called an "AI brain. The idea is to gather knowledge about a company's operations, business processes and customer interactions and hand it over to AI, with the ultimate goal of enabling CIOs and CEOs to...

At Tech World, Lenovo's 2024 annual global innovation event, Lenovo Group unveiled its sixth-generation vertical liquid-cooled product, the ThinkSystem N1380 Neptune, to power compute for generative AI. At the conference, Lenovo announced the launch of the Lenovo Hybrid AI Comprehensive Advantage Set with NVIDIA, and further expanded its long-standing partnership with NVIDIA with the ThinkSystem SC777 V4 Neptune. This new system leverages the new ThinkSystem N1380...

Microsoft's official Azure X account posted last night to "show off" its new gear: the company has gotten its hands on an AI server powered by NVIDIA's GB200 superchip, making it the first of the world's cloud service providers to use the Blackwell architecture. In March, NVIDIA unveiled its most powerful AI acceleration card, the GB200, at the GTC 2024 developer conference, which utilizes the next-generation AI graphics processor architecture, Blackwell, etched using TSMC's 4-nanometer (4NP) process. bla...

Foxconn Senior Vice President Benjamin Ting announced at the 2024 Hon Hai Technology Day that Foxconn plans to build the world's largest NVIDIA GB200 chip manufacturing plant in Mexico, although he did not disclose exactly where the facility will be built, Reuters reported today. Foxconn, currently a major supplier to Apple, is expanding its business to make other electronics. As demand soars for AI startups to train big models, which require a lot of computing power, Foxconn is looking to compete for new markets, and hitching a ride on NVIDIA's giant wheel is a natural first choice. This year ...

The Decoder (September 18) published a blog post in which Jim Fan, a senior scientist at NVIDIA, predicted a "GPT-3 moment" in robotics in the next few years. About Jim Fan Jim Fan received his Ph.D. from the Vision Lab at Stanford University under the supervision of Prof. Fei-Fei Li. His research interests are broad, including multimodal fundamental models, reinforcement learning, and computer vision, and he has interned at Google Cloud AI, OpenAI, and Baidu's Silicon Valley Artificial Intelligence Lab. Jim F...

NVIDIA’s Deep Learning Institute (DLI) and Dartmouth College have collaborated to develop a new, free “Generative AI Teaching Kit.” “Our primary goal is to give students the skills to develop their own GPU-accelerated generative AI applications,” said Sam Raymond, an adjunct assistant professor of engineering at Dartmouth College who helped develop the kit. “We believe that learning this course will help you…

NVIDIA has updated the official logo style for GeForce RTX to include the line "Powering Advanced AI". The logo is used for display on retail boxes for graphics cards, desktop PCs and laptops. NVIDIA is a leading hardware brand in the AI-accelerated space, and the logo change signifies that NVIDIA is showing its AI influence to a wider audience. However, the new slogan also makes the GeForce RTX logo longer, and IT housemates who buy new graphics cards, laptops...

Baidu announced today that it will jointly launch the "2024 Baidu Search Wenxin Intelligent Agent Innovation Competition" with NVIDIA, with 2 major tracks and 5 competition questions. Attached are the specific tracks: The task of the technical track contestants is to develop an LLM-based agent, given a large set of tools, to intelligently orchestrate and schedule these tools to answer complex questions in the open domain. The contestants of the intelligent agent application track need to create a life and entertainment intelligent agent based on the Wenxin intelligent agent platform around people's daily life needs, and provide users with new and innovative gameplay or leisure services. Intelligent agents should…

NVIDIA released the Mistral-NeMo-Minitron 8B small-language AI model in a blog post on August 21st, featuring high accuracy and computational efficiency to run the model on GPU-accelerated data centers, clouds and workstations. NVIDIA and Mistral AI released the open-source Mistral NeMo 12B model last month, and based on that NVIDIA is once again releasing the smaller Mistral-NeMo-Minitron 8B model, with a total of 8 billion parameters, which can be run on...