Amid a pandemic that’s put much of the world’s work, learning, even family reunions online, two of the leaders who have made today’s virtual world possible met Thursday on, where else — Zoom — to talk about what’s next. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and Zoom CEO Eric Yuan spoke Thursday at the online video conference Read article >

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Not everyone needs to be a developer, but everyone will need to be an AI decision maker. That was the message behind a panel discussion on Advancing Equitable AI, which took place at our GPU Technology Conference last week. It was one of several GTC events advancing the conversation on diversity, equity and ethics in Read article >

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When large organizations require translation services, there’s no room for the amusing errors often produced by automated apps. That’s where Lilt, an AI-powered enterprise language translation company, comes in. Lilt CEO Spence Green spoke with AI Podcast host Noah Kravitz about how the company is using a human-in-the-loop process to achieve fast, accurate and affordable Read article >

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The popularity of public cloud offerings is evident — just look at how top cloud service providers report double-digit growth year over year. However, application performance requirements and regulatory compliance issues, to name two examples, often require data to be stored locally to reduce distance and latency and to place data entirely within a company’s Read article >

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Music and engineering were completely separate parts of Bryce Denney’s life until the pandemic hit. By day, the Massachusetts-based NVIDIA engineer helped test processors. On nights and weekends, he played piano chamber music and accompanied theater troupes that his wife, Kathryn, sang in or led. It was a good balance for someone who graduated with Read article >

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The upcoming election isn’t the only thing on lawmakers’ minds. Several congressional representatives have been grappling with U.S. AI policy for years, and their work is getting closer to being made into law. The issue is one of America’s greatest challenges and opportunities: What should the U.S. do to harness AI for the public good, Read article >

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In a conversation that ranged from the automation of software to holodeck-style working environments, NVIDIA CEO and founder Jensen Huang explained why now is the moment to back a new generation of startups as part of this week’s GPU Technology Conference. Jeff Herbst, vice president of business development and head of the NVIDIA Inception startup Read article >

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Pindar Van Arman is a veritable triple threat — he can paint, he can program and he can program robots that paint. The AI Podcast · Art(ificial) Intelligence: Pindar Van Arman Builds Robots that Paint - Ep. 129 Van Arman first started incorporating robots into his artistic method 15 years ago to save time. He Read article >

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Ajit Pai recalls a cold February day, standing in a field at the Wind River reservation in central Wyoming with Arapaho Indian leaders, hearing how they used a Connecting America grant to link schools and homes to gigabit fiber Internet. It was one of many technology transformations the chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission Read article >

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There are major shifts happening in the media and entertainment industry. With the rise of streaming services, there’s a growing demand for high-quality programming  and an increasing need for fresh content to satisfy hundreds of millions of subscribers. At the same time, teams are often collaborating on complex assets using multiple applications while working from Read article >

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AI is a retailer’s automated helper, acting as a smart assistant to suggest the perfect position for products in stores, accurately predict consumer demand, automate order fulfillment in warehouses, and much more. The technology can help retailers grow their top line, potentially improving net profit margins from 2 percent to 6 percent — and adding Read article >

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For researchers like Max Zimmerman, it was a welcome pile-on to tackle a global pandemic. A million citizen scientists donated time on their home systems so the Folding@home consortium could calculate the intricate movements of proteins inside the coronavirus. Then a team of NVIDIA simulation experts combined the best tools from multiple industries to let Read article >

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Hate hunting and pecking away at your keyboard every time you have a quick question? You’ll love this. Microsoft’s Bing search engine has turned to Turing-NLG and NVIDIA GPUs to suggest full sentences for you as you type. Turing-NLG is a cutting-edge, large-scale unsupervised language model that has achieved strong performance on language modeling benchmarks. Read article >

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On land, underwater, in the air — even underground and on other planets — new autonomous machines and the applications that run on them are emerging daily. Robots are working on construction sites to improve safety, they’re on factory floors to enhance logistics and they’re roaming farm rows to pick weeds and harvest crops. As Read article >

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The line between the physical and virtual worlds is blurring as autonomous vehicle simulation sharpens with NVIDIA Omniverse, our photorealistic 3D simulation and collaboration platform. During the GPU Technology Conference keynote, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang showcased for the first time NVIDIA DRIVE Sim running on NVIDIA Omniverse. DRIVE Sim leverages the cutting-edge capabilities Read article >

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The land famed for its midsummer festivities and everyone’s favorite flatpack furniture store is about to add another jewel to its crown. Linköping University, home to 36,000 staff and students, has announced its plans to build Sweden’s fastest AI supercomputer, based on the NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD computing infrastructure. Carrying the name of renowned Swedish scientist Read article >

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The NVIDIA DRIVE ecosystem is going multidimensional. During the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference this week, autonomous trucking startup Locomation and simulation company Blackshark.ai announced technological developments powered by NVIDIA DRIVE. Locomation, a Pittsburgh-based provider of autonomous trucking technology, said it would integrate NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Orin in the upcoming rollout of its platooning system on Read article >

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For many, the portal into AI is robotics. And one of the best ways to get good at robotics is to get hands on. Roll up your sleeves, because this week at NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference, the Duckietown Foundation announced that it’s offering a free edX course on AI and robotics using the Duckiebot hardware Read article >

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