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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...

Recently, NVIDIA's research team developed an AI model called "StormCast" that can predict thunderstorms within an accuracy of several kilometers. This technological breakthrough is of great significance to the field of meteorological forecasting, because it has always been very challenging to capture the complex dynamics of the atmosphere at such a fine scale. The StormCast model combines two innovative technologies. The researchers used a generative model that can simulate a variety of possible development scenarios. StormCast also presents a dense atmospheric state with multiple vertical layers, ensuring…

The four-year wait is finally over. The launch of Black Myth: Wukong has attracted the enthusiastic attention of players around the world. This game is not only a milestone in the history of Chinese games, but is also expected to shake up the Chinese game landscape. Black Myth: Wukong created a miracle in the history of Chinese games when it was first launched. The pre-sale sales reached 390 million yuan in one month, and the sales volume was 1.2 million copies, which greatly refreshed the pre-sale record of domestic games. According to Steam data, this game is not only popular among Chinese players, but also continues to occupy the first place in the world's best-selling products, setting a new record for Steam download bandwidth. Game…

Recently, California and NVIDIA jointly launched an unprecedented artificial intelligence training program to help 100,000 residents master AI technology. The program, which has been supported by California Governor Gavin Newsom, aims to provide technical guidance, mentor support, and advanced hardware resources to students, educators, and professionals. This program not only focuses on education, but also strives to promote innovation and create jobs. Source Note: The image is generated by AI, and the image is authorized by Midjourney. According to the plan, NVIDIA will introduce their resources to community colleges, including curriculum, certificates, software, and training...

A research report released by Meta shows that its 16,384 NVIDIA H100 graphics card cluster used to train the 405 billion parameter model Llama 3 experienced 419 unexpected failures in 54 days, an average of one every three hours. More than half of the failures were caused by the graphics card or its high-bandwidth memory (HBM3). Due to the huge scale of the system and the high synchronization of tasks, a single graphics card failure may cause the entire training task to be interrupted and need to be restarted. Despite this, the Meta team has maintained more than 90% of effective...

According to Wired magazine, several technology giants including Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic and Salesforce were found to have used thousands of YouTube videos without permission to train their artificial intelligence models, sparking serious copyright and ethical disputes. The report revealed that these companies integrated subtitles of various YouTube videos into their AI training data sets. The creators affected range widely, including well-known bloggers MKBHD, MrBeast, Jacksepticeye, talk show actors Stephen Colbert, John Oliver…

According to Wired, some tech giants including Apple used the subtitle files of YouTube videos to train artificial intelligence models without the consent of the creators. The creators affected by this incident include well-known tech bloggers MKBHD (Marques Brownlee), MrBeast, PewDiePie, and talk show hosts Stephen Colbert, John Oliver, and Jimmy Kimmel. These subtitle files used to train AI are equivalent to the text transcription of the video. Investigative journalists revealed that one…

Musk has announced that his artificial intelligence startup xAI's large language model Grok-2 will be launched in August, which will bring more advanced AI capabilities. Although Grok-2 has not yet been unveiled, Musk has already started to promote its Grok-3. Musk said that training AI chatbots requires data sets, and it is a lot of work to clean large language models (LMM) from existing data. He also talked about several problems with OpenAI model output training. He revealed that xAI's Grok-3 used 100,000...

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI has announced a partnership with Dell, Nvidia and Supermicro to build what it says will be the world’s largest supercomputer. The project will provide the startup with a large amount of computing resources to support its training work and reduce its reliance on cloud services from Oracle and X’s data centers. Source note: Image generated by AI, image license service provider Midjourney The plan was announced in early June, with Dell CEO Michael Dell posting a photo of the server rack on X (formerly Twitter)…

Qatari telecoms group Ooredoo has signed a deal with NVIDIA to deploy AI technology in the company's data centers in five countries in the Middle East, Aziz Aluthman Fakhroo, chief executive of Ooredoo, said in an interview on 23rd local time, Reuters reported. The move represents NVIDIA's first large-scale rollout in the Middle East, and Ooredoo will be the first company in the region to offer its data center customers direct access to NVIDIA's AI and graphics processing technology. Previously, Washington had restricted access to the place...