Happy Thanksgiving, members. It’s a very special GFN Thursday. As the official kickoff to what’s sure to be a busy holiday season for our members around the globe, this week’s GFN Thursday brings a few reminders of the joys of PC gaming in the cloud. Plus, kick back for the holiday with four new games Read article >

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A picture worth a thousand words now takes just three or four words to create, thanks to GauGAN2, the latest version of NVIDIA Research’s wildly popular AI painting demo. The deep learning model behind GauGAN allows anyone to channel their imagination into photorealistic masterpieces — and it’s easier than ever. Simply type a phrase like Read article >

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By the time the night was over, it felt like Jensen Huang had given everyone in the ballroom a good laugh and a few things to think about. The annual dinner of the Semiconductor Industry Association—a group of companies that together employ a quarter-million workers in the U.S. and racked up U.S. sales over $200 Read article >

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You don’t need a private plane to be at the forefront of personal travel. Electric automaker Xpeng took the wraps off the G9 SUV this week at the international Auto Guangzhou show in China. The intelligent, software-defined vehicle is built on the high-performance compute of NVIDIA DRIVE Orin and delivers AI capabilities that are continuously Read article >

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When Julien Trombini and Guillaume Cazenave founded video-analytics startup Two-i four years ago, they had an ambitious goal: improving the quality of urban life by one day being able to monitor a city’s roads, garbage collection and other public services. Along the way, the pair found a wholly different niche. Today, the company’s technology — Read article >

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By the time the night was over, it felt like Jensen Huang had given everyone in the ballroom a good laugh and a few things to think about. The annual dinner of the Semiconductor Industry Association—a group of companies that together employ a quarter-million workers in the U.S. and racked up U.S. sales over $200 Read article >

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Fewer than 4,000 tigers remain worldwide, according to Tigers United, a university consortium that recently began using AI to help save the species. Jeremy Dertien is a conservation biologist with Tigers United and a Ph.D. candidate in wildlife biology and conservation planning at Clemson University. He spoke with NVIDIA AI Podcast host Noah Kravitz about Read article >

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You’ve reached your weekly gaming checkpoint. Welcome to a positively packed GFN Thursday. This week delivers a sweet deal for gamers ready to upgrade their PC gaming from the cloud. With any new, paid six-month Priority or GeForce NOW RTX 3080 subscription, members will receive Crysis Remastered for free for a limited time. Gamers and Read article >

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Manufacturers are bringing product designs to life in a newly immersive world. Rendermedia, based in the U.K., specializes in immersive solutions for commerce and industries. The company provides clients with tools and applications for photorealistic virtual, augmented and extended reality (collectively known as XR) in areas like product design, training and collaboration. With NVIDIA RTX Read article >

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NVIDIA-powered systems won four of five tests in MLPerf HPC 1.0, an industry benchmark for AI performance on scientific applications in high performance computing. They’re the latest results from MLPerf, a set of industry benchmarks for deep learning first released in May 2018. MLPerf HPC addresses a style of computing that speeds and augments simulations Read article >

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A partial differential equation is “the most powerful tool humanity has ever created,” Cornell University mathematician Steven Strogatz wrote in a 2009 New York Times opinion piece. This quote opened last week’s GTC talk AI4Science: The Convergence of AI and Scientific Computing, presented by Anima Anandkumar, director of machine learning research at NVIDIA and professor Read article >

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Siemens Energy, a leading supplier of power plant technology in the trillion-dollar worldwide energy market, is relying on the NVIDIA Omniverse platform to create digital twins to support predictive maintenance of power plants. In doing so, Siemens Energy joins a wave of companies across various industries that are using digital twins to enhance their operations. Read article >

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Just as the Dallas/Fort Worth airport became a hub for travelers crisscrossing America, the north Texas region will be a gateway to AI if folks at Southern Methodist University have their way. SMU is installing an NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, an accelerated supercomputer it expects will power projects in machine learning for its sprawling metro community Read article >

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Two simulations of a billion atoms, two fresh insights into how the SARS-CoV-2 virus works, and a new AI model to speed drug discovery. Those are results from finalists for Gordon Bell awards, considered a Nobel prize in high performance computing. They used AI, accelerated computing or both to advance science with NVIDIA’s technologies. A Read article >

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Modern computing workloads — including scientific simulations, visualization, data analytics, and machine learning — are pushing supercomputing centers, cloud providers and enterprises to rethink their computing architecture. The processor or the network or the software optimizations alone can’t address the latest needs of researchers, engineers and data scientists. Instead, the data center is the new Read article >

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The earth is warming. The past seven years are on track to be the seven warmest on record. The emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities are responsible for approximately 1.1°C of average warming since the period 1850-1900. What we’re experiencing is very different from the global average. We experience extreme weather — historic droughts, Read article >

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The appetite for AI and data science is increasing, and nowhere is that more prevalent than in emerging markets. Registrations for this week’s GTC from African nations tripled compared with the spring edition of the event. Indeed, Nigeria had the third most registered attendees for countries in the EMEA region, ahead of France, Italy and Read article >

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Researchers tackling the challenge of visual misinformation — think the TikTok video of Tom Cruise supposedly golfing in Italy during the pandemic — must continuously advance their tools to identify AI-generated images. NVIDIA is furthering this effort by collaborating with researchers to support the development and testing of detector algorithms on our state-of-the-art image-generation models. Read article >

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