High school student Selin Alara Ornek is looking ahead — using machine learning and the NVIDIA Jetson platform for edge AI and robotics to create robot guide dogs for the visually impaired. The project, called IC4U, is one of seven robots Ornek has created to date, including a school aid robot, named BB4All, that can… Continue reading Meet the Maker: High School Student Develops Robot Guide Dogs With NVIDIA Jetson
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NVIDIA and Zoox Pave the Way for Autonomous Ride-Hailing
In celebration of Zoox’s 10th anniversary, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang recently joined the robotaxi company’s CEO, Aicha Evans, and its cofounder and CTO, Jesse Levinson, to discuss the latest in autonomous vehicle (AV) innovation and experience a ride in the Zoox robotaxi. In a fireside chat at Zoox’s headquarters in Foster City, Calif.,… Continue reading NVIDIA and Zoox Pave the Way for Autonomous Ride-Hailing
‘Everybody Will Have an AI Assistant,’ NVIDIA CEO Tells SIGGRAPH Audience
The generative AI revolution — with deep roots in visual computing — is amplifying human creativity even as accelerated computing promises significant gains in energy efficiency, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang said Monday. That makes this week’s SIGGRAPH professional graphics conference, in Denver, the logical venue to discuss what’s next. “Everybody will have an… Continue reading ‘Everybody Will Have an AI Assistant,’ NVIDIA CEO Tells SIGGRAPH Audience
Reality Reimagined: NVIDIA Introduces fVDB to Build Bigger Digital Models of the World
NVIDIA announced at SIGGRAPH fVDB, a new deep-learning framework for generating AI-ready virtual representations of the real world. fVDB is built on top of OpenVDB, the industry-standard library for simulating and rendering sparse volumetric data such as water, fire, smoke and clouds. Generative physical AI, such as autonomous vehicles and robots that inhabit the real… Continue reading Reality Reimagined: NVIDIA Introduces fVDB to Build Bigger Digital Models of the World
How NVIDIA AI Foundry Lets Enterprises Forge Custom Generative AI Models
Businesses seeking to harness the power of AI need customized models tailored to their specific industry needs. NVIDIA AI Foundry is a service that enables enterprises to use data, accelerated computing and software tools to create and deploy custom models that can supercharge their generative AI initiatives. Just as TSMC manufactures chips designed by other… Continue reading How NVIDIA AI Foundry Lets Enterprises Forge Custom Generative AI Models
Sustainable Strides: How AI and Accelerated Computing Are Driving Energy Efficiency
AI and accelerated computing — twin engines NVIDIA continuously improves — are delivering energy efficiency for many industries. It’s progress the wider community is starting to acknowledge. “Even if the predictions that data centers will soon account for 4% of global energy consumption become a reality, AI is having a major impact on reducing the… Continue reading Sustainable Strides: How AI and Accelerated Computing Are Driving Energy Efficiency
Magnetic Marvels: NVIDIA’s Supercomputers Spin a Quantum Tale
Research published earlier this month in the science journal Nature used NVIDIA-powered supercomputers to validate a pathway toward the commercialization of quantum computing. The research, led by Nobel laureate Giorgio Parisi, focuses on quantum annealing, a method that may one day tackle complex optimization problems that are extraordinarily challenging to conventional computers. To conduct their… Continue reading Magnetic Marvels: NVIDIA’s Supercomputers Spin a Quantum Tale
Jensen Huang, Mark Zuckerberg to Discuss Future of Graphics and Virtual Worlds at SIGGRAPH 2024
NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang and Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg will hold a public fireside chat on Monday, July 29, at the 50th edition of the SIGGRAPH graphics conference in Denver. The two leaders will discuss the future of AI and simulation and the pivotal role of research at SIGGRAPH, which focuses… Continue reading Jensen Huang, Mark Zuckerberg to Discuss Future of Graphics and Virtual Worlds at SIGGRAPH 2024
Mile-High AI: NVIDIA Research to Present Advancements in Simulation and Gen AI at SIGGRAPH
NVIDIA is taking an array of advancements in rendering, simulation and generative AI to SIGGRAPH 2024, the premier computer graphics conference, which will take place July 28 – Aug. 1 in Denver. More than 20 papers from NVIDIA Research introduce innovations advancing synthetic data generators and inverse rendering tools that can help train next-generation models.… Continue reading Mile-High AI: NVIDIA Research to Present Advancements in Simulation and Gen AI at SIGGRAPH
In It for the Long Haul: Waabi Pioneers Generative AI to Unleash Fully Driverless Autonomous Trucking
Artificial intelligence is transforming the transportation industry, helping drive advances in autonomous vehicle (AV) technology. Waabi, a Toronto-based startup, is embracing generative AI to deliver self-driving vehicles at scale — starting with the long-haul trucking sector. At GTC in March, Waabi announced that it will use the NVIDIA DRIVE Thor centralized car computer to bring… Continue reading In It for the Long Haul: Waabi Pioneers Generative AI to Unleash Fully Driverless Autonomous Trucking