Of the millions diagnosed with cancer each year, over half receive some form of radiation therapy. Deep learning is helping radiation oncologists make the process more precise by automatically labeling tumors from medical scans in a process known as contouring. It’s a delicate balance. “If oncologists contour too small an area, then radiation doesn’t treat Read article >

The post AI Came, AI Saw, AI Conquered: How Vysioneer Improves Precision Radiation Therapy appeared first on The Official NVIDIA Blog.

Creating cinematic-quality visuals has traditionally been a time-consuming, costly process. But that’s changing, with UNIT, a London-based visual effects company pioneering the use of NVIDIA RTX Servers to dramatically accelerate the rendering workflow for its work on post- production, design, grade, audio, and computer graphics for film, TV and commercials. In searching for the best Read article >

The post Visual Effects Studio Pioneers RTX Servers to Boost Final-Frame Rendering appeared first on The Official NVIDIA Blog.

You can’t have an AI podcast and not interview someone using AI to make podcasts better. That’s why we reached out to serial entrepreneur Andrew Mason to talk to him about what he’s doing now. His company, Descript Podcast Studio, uses AI, natural language processing and automatic speech synthesis to make podcast editing easier and Read article >

The post Pod Squad: Descript Uses AI to Make Managing Podcasts Quicker, Easier appeared first on The Official NVIDIA Blog.

York Yang is a hardcore millennial: He doesn’t wait for restaurants or mass transit — he orders on-demand meals and wheels. And when it comes to grocery checkouts, he takes matters into his own hands. Yang and three co-founders started Caper, a maker of automated shopping carts, to solve their generation’s distaste for waiting in Read article >

The post Retail Therapy: Smart Carts Roll Out to Assist Shoppers and Avoid Checkouts appeared first on The Official NVIDIA Blog.

With more than 10 million residents, Jakarta isn’t just one of the world’s most populous cities, it’s also one of the most congested  — with 13 million motorcycles, 4.4 million cars and millions more trucks and vans. The costs are heavy for Indonesia’s capital, including lost productivity, wasted fuel and air pollution. The city government Read article >

The post Road to Recovery: Jakarta Uses NVIDIA Metropolis to Retrieve Unpaid Vehicle Tax appeared first on The Official NVIDIA Blog.

All the goodness of GPU acceleration on Amazon Web Services can now also run inside your own data center. AWS Outposts powered by NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPUs are generally available starting today. They bring cloud-based Amazon EC2 G4 instances inside your data center to meet user requirements for security and latency in a wide Read article >

The post AWS Outposts Station a GPU Garrison in Your Datacenter appeared first on The Official NVIDIA Blog.

All the goodness of GPU acceleration on Amazon Web Services can now also run inside your own data center. AWS Outposts powered by NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPUs are generally available starting today. They bring cloud-based Amazon EC2 G4 instances inside your data center to meet user requirements for security and latency in a wide Read article >

The post AWS Outposts Station a GPU Garrison in Your Datacenter appeared first on The Official NVIDIA Blog.

Approvals for AI-based healthcare products are streaming in from regulators around the globe, with medical imaging leading the way. It’s just the start of what’s expected to become a steady flow as submissions rise and the technology becomes better understood. More than 90 medical imaging products using AI are now cleared for clinical use, thanks Read article >

The post Healthcare Regulators Open the Tap for AI appeared first on The Official NVIDIA Blog.

With over 100 exhibitors at the annual Radiological Society of North America conference using NVIDIA technology to bring AI to radiology, 2019 looks to be a tipping point for AI in healthcare. Despite AI’s great potential, a key challenge remains: gaining access to the huge volumes of data required to train AI models while protecting Read article >

The post NVIDIA Clara Federated Learning to Deliver AI to Hospitals While Protecting Patient Data appeared first on The Official NVIDIA Blog.

Honeybee colonies worldwide are under siege by parasites, but they now have a white knight: a band of Israeli entrepreneurs bearing AI. Beewise, an Israel-based startup, is using AI in its small northern community on the border of Lebanon to monitor honeybee colonies. It’s secured seed funding of more than $3 million and launched its Read article >

The post Buzzworthy AI: Startup’s Robo-Hives Counter Bee Population Declines appeared first on The Official NVIDIA Blog.

Five years ago, when Eric Betzig got the call he won a Nobel Prize for inventing a microscope that could see features as small as 20 nanometers, he was already working on a new one. The new device captures the equivalent of 3D video of living cells — and now it’s using NVIDIA GPUs and Read article >

The post Life Observed: Nobel Winner Sees Biology’s Future with GPUs appeared first on The Official NVIDIA Blog.

Now that data is the new oil, AI software startups are sprouting across the tech terrain like pumpjacks in Texas. A whopping $80 billion in venture capital is fueling as many as 12,000 new companies. Only a few will tap a gusher. Those who do, experts say, will practice six key success factors. Master your Read article >

The post Read ‘em and Reap: 6 Success Factors for AI Startups appeared first on The Official NVIDIA Blog.

AI is now riding in the lap of luxury. Mercedes-Benz just took the wraps off the much-anticipated Mercedes-Maybach GLS SUV — the largest model under the ultra-luxury brand today. The marquee feature of the vehicle’s interior is the MBUX intelligent cockpit, powered by NVIDIA. The debut, which took place at the Guangzhou Auto Show, follows Read article >

The post Driving First Class: Mercedes-Benz Gives Ultra-Luxury, Performance the AI Treatment appeared first on The Official NVIDIA Blog.

Researchers tapped GPUs in the world’s most powerful supercomputer to set a record simulating current flows through a chip, snagging the 2019 Gordon Bell prize, awarded at this week’s SC19 supercomputing show. Their work could shed light on a wide variety of challenges in materials science, such as how to keep processors cool inside high-performance Read article >

The post GPU-Powered Semi Simulation Snags Coveted Research Award appeared first on The Official NVIDIA Blog.

Back in the day, the annual SC supercomputing conference was filled with tabletops hung with research posters. Three decades on, the show’s Denver edition this week was a sea of sharp-angled booths, crowned with three-dimensional signage, promoting logos in a multitude of blues and reds. But nowhere on the SC19 show floor drew more of Read article >

The post Smart into Art: NVIDIA SC19 Booth Turns Computer Scientists into Art at News-Filled Show appeared first on The Official NVIDIA Blog.

From animators creating complex scenes with realistic 3D characters to architects designing buildings with accurate reflections, real-time ray tracing and AI are proving to be game-changers across industries. And now more of the world’s top applications have begun shipping with NVIDIA RTX technology to let artists explore their creativity further. Among the latest this week: Read article >

The post RTX On: Chaos V-Ray GPU Next and Blender Cycles Now Shipping with RTX Support appeared first on The Official NVIDIA Blog.

At Oracle, customer service chatbots use conversational AI to respond to consumers with more speed and complexity. Suhas Uliyar, vice president for product management for digital assistance and AI at Oracle, stopped by to talk to AI Podcast host Noah Kravitz about how the newest wave of conversational AI can keep up with the nuances Read article >

The post Speaking the Same Language: How Oracle’s Conversational AI Serves Customers appeared first on The Official NVIDIA Blog.

Students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are learning about autonomous driving by taking NVIDIA-powered data science workstations for a spin. In an undergraduate robotics class at MIT, 17 students were organized into three teams and given a miniature racing car. Their task: teach it how to drive by itself through a complex course inside Read article >

The post MIT Students Kick Self-Driving Mini-Cars into High Gear with GPU-Powered Data Science Workstations appeared first on The Official NVIDIA Blog.

NVIDIA and Microsoft are teaming up to provide the world’s most innovative young companies with access to their respective accelerator programs for AI startups. Members of NVIDIA Inception and Microsoft for Startups can now receive all the benefits of both programs — including technology, training, go-to-market support and NVIDIA GPU credits in the Azure cloud Read article >

The post NVIDIA and Microsoft Team Up to Aid AI Startups appeared first on The Official NVIDIA Blog.

The new wave of supercomputers is largely GPU accelerated, the latest TOP500 list of the world’s fastest systems shows. Of the 102 new supercomputers to join the closely watched ranking, 42 use NVIDIA GPU accelerators — including AiMOS, the most powerful addition to the list, which was released this week. Coming in at No. 24, Read article >

The post Record 136 NVIDIA GPU-Accelerated Supercomputers Feature in TOP500 Ranking appeared first on The Official NVIDIA Blog.