Nvidia Corp chief executive officer Jensen Huang unveiled a new batch of products and services tied to artificial intelligence. He is looking to further capitalize on a frenzy that has made his company the world’s most valuable chipmaker.
The wide-ranging new lineup includes an AI supercomputer platform called DGX GH200, which will help tech companies create successors to ChatGPT, Huang told the audience at the Computex show in Taiwan. Microsoft Corp., Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google are expected to be some of the first users of that equipment.
Nvidia also is teaming up with WPP Plc to use AI and the metaverse to lower the cost of producing advertising. It’s releasing a networking offering designed to turbocharge the speed of information within data centres. And the company is even looking to change how people interact with video games: A service called Nvidia ACE for Games will use AI to enliven background characters and give them more personality.
The flurry of announcements underscores Nvidia’s shift from a maker of computer graphics chips to a company at the centre of the AI boom. Last week, Huang gave a stunning sales forecast for the current quarter — almost $4 billion above analysts’ estimates — fueled by demand for data-centre chips that handle AI tasks. That sent the stock to a record high and put Nvidia on the brink of a $1 trillion valuation — a first for the chip industry.
The DGX computer is another attempt to keep data centre operators hooked on Nvidia’s products. Microsoft, Google and their peers are all racing to develop services similar to OpenAI Inc.’s ChatGPT chatbot — and that requires plenty of computing horsepower. To satisfy this appetite, Nvidia offers data centre equipment and building supercomputers that customers can use. That includes two new supercomputers in Taiwan, the company said.
One of the biggest AI bottlenecks is the speed data moves within data centres. Nvidia’s Spectrum X, a networking system that uses technology acquired in the 2020 purchase of Mellanox Technologies, will address that issue. And the company is building a data center in Israel to demonstrate its effectiveness.
The WPP partnership, meanwhile, will streamline the creation of advertising content. The UK advertising titan will use Nvidia’s Omniverse technology to create “virtual twins” of products that can be manipulated to customize ads and reduce the need for costly reshoots.
Nvidia’s original business was selling graphics cards to gamers, and it’s returning to that world with the ACE offering. The service will address the problem of NPCs, or nonplayer characters, the background figures that populate video games. NPCs typically give repetitive responses with scripted dialogue, and that limited range has made them the subject of ridicule in memes and even the Ryan Reynolds movie “Free Guy.”
Nvidia ACE will listen to what the gamer says to a character, convert it into text and then dump that into a generative AI programme to create a more natural, off-the-cuff response. The Santa Clara, California-based company is currently testing the service and will add guardrails to ensure that responses aren’t inappropriate or offensive.
Nvidia has announced a range of new products and services related to artificial intelligence (AI), including an AI supercomputer platform called DGX GH200. The forum will help tech companies create successors to ChatGPT, and Microsoft, Meta Platforms and Google are expected to be among the first users.
Nvidia is also partnering with WPP to use AI and the metaverse to lower the cost of producing advertising. At the same time, a networking offering will speed up the flow of information within data centres. The company is also developing a service called Nvidia ACE for Games, which will use AI to enliven background characters and give them more personality.
As seen in the coverage by The Economic Times, Nvidia Corp CEO Jensen Huang has recently revealed a new set of products and services centred around artificial intelligence (AI). This move aims to further capitalize on the AI frenzy that has made Nvidia the world’s most valuable chipmaker.
One of the highlights of Nvidia’s new lineup is the AI supercomputer platform called DGX GH200. This platform will enable tech companies to create successors to ChatGPT, an AI chatbot developed by OpenAI Inc. Some of the first users of this equipment are expected to be Microsoft Corp., Meta Platforms Inc., and Alphabet Inc.’s Google.
