NVIDIA topped the latest edition of MIT Technology Review’s list of 50 Smartest Companies. The magazine’s 2017 list, released Tuesday, ranks companies that combine innovative technology with an effective business model. “The companies on the list combine a high level of technology innovation with a business model that will help them make the most of […]

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Volvo Cars and Autoliv are teaming up with NVIDIA to develop advanced systems and software for AI self-driving cars, the companies announced today.

NVIDIA today announced it has formed a strategic partnership with ZF and HELLA to deliver AI technology with the New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) safety certification for the mass deployment of self-driving vehicles. The agreement is non-exclusive.

How do you find the perfect balance of art, story, and software? Ask Danny Lange, Unity Technologies’ VP of AI and Machine Learning. While other industries were quick to adopt AI, the gaming world has been slow to integrate machine learning systems. At Unity, Lange is leading efforts to change that. According to Lange, the […]

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Mark Chung’s unexpectedly high $500 monthly electric bill zapped his curiosity. So when his Silicon Valley utility couldn’t explain it — despite “smart meters” installed throughout its system — he took matters into his own hands. The Stanford-trained electrical engineer hacked some inexpensive meters from his local hardware store to be wi-fi enabled, and then […]

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Boston is known for many things: The Red Sox baseball team, fresh lobster, the highest density of universities in one city. “Autonomous vehicles” can now be added to the list. Optimus Ride, an MIT spinoff company, recently announced that it has received approval from the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) to test highly automated vehicles. Many […]

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The Human Brain Project has ambitions to advance brain research, cognitive neuroscience and other brain-inspired sciences like few other projects before it. Created in 2013 by the European Commission, the project’s aims include gathering, organizing and disseminating data describing the brain and its diseases, and simulating the brain itself.¹ To do so, they’re going to […]

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On social media, in magazines, on advertisements all around us, perfection is personified. Everywhere we go, idealized images of models with flawless skin, snowy-white teeth and just-so hair surround us. In a recent ad campaign for personal care product maker Baby Dove, MHP Communications asked U.K. creative agency Happy Finish to use AI to turn […]

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To help develop better pacemakers, researchers at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center recently developed the world’s first comprehensive heart model. It’s an amazing achievement, mimicking blood flow and muscle reaction based on the heart’s electrical signals. Nearly as daunting: visualizing and analyzing their huge 54 million tetrahedral-cell model. When running simulations at scale, supercomputers generate petabytes […]

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Oceans of data. Instantaneous decisions. A fluid, ever-changing environment. Little wonder AI is sweeping the finance industry - it’s hard to imagine an industry better suited for it. “Today the trade that I think is going to change the world, that every fund that every quant fund that wants to make money is adopting, is […]

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NVIDIA is among six technology companies to receive funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) to accelerate the development of next-generation supercomputers. The ECP mission is to facilitate the delivery of at least two exascale computing systems, with an aim to deliver at least one by 2021. Such systems would be approximately […]

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Artificial intelligence is the key to unlocking the challenge and promise of self-driving cars, NVIDIA told Congress today. In testimony before a packed hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, Rob Csongor, vice president and GM of the company’s Automotive business, said that AI will in the years ahead enable self-driving […]

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E3 - NVIDIA, Activision and Bungie, creators of the award-winning Destiny game franchise, today announced they are partnering to bring the Destiny franchise to PC for the first time with the much-anticipated action game Destiny 2.

Home Improvement was on television. Micheal Keaton was Batman. Personal computers boasted speeds measured in megahertz. Twenty five-years ago, PC gaming was a zero billion dollar industry. But it was about to become a cultural tsunami. Wolfenstein 3D, released in May 1992, showed how the PC could be good for much more than just spreadsheets. […]

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Understand the brain’s workings by analyzing cerebral slices. Use 3D heart models to develop better treatments, while lowering reliance on animal experiments. Study how dark matter will form when Andromeda galaxy and Milky Way collide. These are just a few of the challenges researchers are tackling using supercomputers, AI and big data. GPUs are at […]

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Smartphones are the Swiss Army knives of the digital age, serving as cell phone, camera, map, social networking hub, game console and more. Now one more amazing utility can be added to the list: eyesight. Aipoly is one such smartphone app. It can nearly instantaneously identify over 4,000 objects around the home, such as tools, […]

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Most drones would be lost without GPS. Not this one. A drone developed by NVIDIA researchers navigates even the most far-flung, unmapped places using only deep learning and computer vision powered by NVIDIA Jetson TX1 embedded AI supercomputers. Although initially designed to follow forest trails to rescue lost hikers or spot fallen trees, the low-flying autonomous […]

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Never before seen games. The latest gear. Huge giveaways. The Electronic Entertainment Expo kicking off this weekend in Los Angeles promises to be our most raucous yet. NVIDIA GeForce is driving demos of the latest unreleased games running on the very latest gear in our booth — and around the show — from scores of […]

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This is a tale that starts off like a joke: A researcher walks into a bar… and ends with a revolutionary advancement in deep learning. Nobody’s laughing now at how Ian Goodfellow, a staff research scientist at Google, got the idea for generative adversarial networks (GANs). In this week’s episode of the AI Podcast, Goodfellow […]

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