In his keynote anchoring Nvidia’s annual GTC conference, founder and CEO Jensen Huang focused on bringing AI to every industry as generative AI creates a sense of «urgency»
As Nvidia’s annual GTC conference gets underway, founder and CEO Jensen Huang, in his characteristic leather jacket and standing in front of a vertical green wall at Nvidia headquarters in Santa Clara, California, delivered a highly-anticipated keynote that focused almost entirely on AI. His presentation announced partnerships with Google, Microsoft and Oracle, among others, to bring new AI, simulation and collaboration capabilities to “every industry.”
“The warp drive engine is accelerated computing, and the energy source is AI,” Huang said. Generative AI capabilities, he said, have “created a sense of urgency for companies to reimagine their products and business models. Industrial companies are racing to digitalize and reinvent into software driven tech companies to be the disrupter and not the disrupted.”
Huang’s keynote kicked off with the iconic “I am AI” opening (that launched in 2017) with music that this time around was apparently composed by AI and arranged by composer John Naesano. Then, Huang launched into a dizzying array of announcements, which included everything from training to deployment for cutting-edge AI services; new semiconductors and software libraries; and a complete set of systems and services for startups and enterprises.
The announcements at GTC, which targets Nvidia’s community of over 4 million developers, come in the context of Nvidia’s continued AI dominance, particularly in the latest era of generative AI.
As detailed in VentureBeat’s recent in-depth feature story, Nvidia got a massive AI head start when when the hardware and software company helped power the deep learning “revolution” of a decade ago, and Nvidia shows few signs of losing its lead as generative AI explodes with tools like ChatGPT.
In fact, Nvidia powers ChatGPT: According to UBS analyst Timothy Arcuri, ChatGPT used 10,000 Nvidia GPUs to train the model.
In his keynote, Huang recounted how back in 2016 he hand-delivered to OpenAI the first NVIDIA DGX AI supercomputer — the engine behind the large language model powering ChatGPT.
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Nvidia’s technologies are fundamental to AI, said Huang, recounting how Nvidia was there at the very beginning of the generative AI revolution.
