NVIDIA Chief Scientist Inducted Into Silicon Valley’s Engineering Hall of Fame

From scaling mountains in the annual California Death Ride bike challenge to creating a low-cost, open-source ventilator in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, NVIDIA Chief Scientist Bill Dally is no stranger to accomplishing near-impossible feats. On Friday, he achieved another rare milestone: induction into the Silicon Valley Engineering Council’s Hall of Fame. The… Continue reading NVIDIA Chief Scientist Inducted Into Silicon Valley’s Engineering Hall of Fame

NVIDIA Unveils GPU-Accelerated AI-on-5G System for Edge AI, 5G and Omniverse Digital Twins

Telcos are seeking industry-standard solutions that can run 5G, AI applications and immersive graphics workloads on the same server — including for computer vision and the metaverse. To meet this need, NVIDIA is developing a new AI-on-5G solution that combines 5G vRAN, edge AI and digital twin workloads on an all-in-one, hyperconverged and GPU-accelerated system.… Continue reading NVIDIA Unveils GPU-Accelerated AI-on-5G System for Edge AI, 5G and Omniverse Digital Twins

Sun in Their AIs: Nonprofit Forecasts Solar Energy for UK Grid

Cloudy British weather is the butt of many jokes — but the United Kingdom’s national power grid is making the most of its sunshine. With the help of Open Climate Fix, a nonprofit product lab, the control room of the National Grid Electricity System Operator (ESO) is testing AI models that provide granular, near-term forecasts… Continue reading Sun in Their AIs: Nonprofit Forecasts Solar Energy for UK Grid

Crossing Continents: XPENG G9 SUV and P7 Sedan Set Course for Scandinavia, the Netherlands

Electric automaker XPENG’s flagship G9 SUV and P7 sports sedan are now available for order in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and the Netherlands — an expansion revealed last week at the eCar Expo in Stockholm. The intelligent electric vehicles are built on the high-performance NVIDIA DRIVE Orin centralized compute architecture and deliver AI capabilities that are… Continue reading Crossing Continents: XPENG G9 SUV and P7 Sedan Set Course for Scandinavia, the Netherlands

3D Artist Brings Ride and Joy to Automotive Designs With Real-Time Renders Using NVIDIA RTX

Designing automotive visualizations can be incredibly time consuming. To make the renders look as realistic as possible, artists need to consider material textures, paints, realistic lighting and reflections, and more. For 3D artist David Baylis, it’s important to include these details and still create high-resolution renders in a short amount of time. That’s why he… Continue reading 3D Artist Brings Ride and Joy to Automotive Designs With Real-Time Renders Using NVIDIA RTX

Deloitte’s Nitin Mittal on the Secrets of ‘All-In’ AI Success

Artificial intelligence is the new electricity. The fifth industrial revolution. And companies that go all-in on AI are reaping the rewards. So how do you make that happen? That big question — how? — is explored by Nitin Mittal, principal at Deloitte, one of the world’s largest professional services organizations, and co-author Thomas Davenport in… Continue reading Deloitte’s Nitin Mittal on the Secrets of ‘All-In’ AI Success

Cyberpunk 2077 Brings a Taste of the Future With DLSS

Analyst reports. Academic papers. Ph.D. programs. There are a lot of places you can go to get a glimpse of the future. But the best place might just be El Coyote Cojo, a whiskey-soaked dive bar that doesn’t exist in real life. Fire up Cyberpunk 2077 and you’ll see much more than the watering hole’s… Continue reading Cyberpunk 2077 Brings a Taste of the Future With DLSS

Braced From Space: Startup Keeps Watchful Eye on Gas Pipeline Leaks Across the Globe

As its name suggests, Orbital Sidekick is creating technology that acts as a buddy in outer space, keeping an eye on the globe using satellites to help keep it safe and sustainable. The San Francisco-based startup, a member of the NVIDIA Inception program, enables commercial and government users to optimize sustainable operations and security with… Continue reading Braced From Space: Startup Keeps Watchful Eye on Gas Pipeline Leaks Across the Globe

NVIDIA CEO Ignites AI Conversation in Stockholm

More than 600 entrepreneurs, developers, researchers and executives from across the Nordics flocked Tuesday to Stockholm’s sleek Sergel Hub conference center in a further sign of the strength of the region’s AI ecosystem. The highlight: a far-reaching conversation between NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang and Swedish industrialist Marcus Wallenberg exploring the intersections of AI,… Continue reading NVIDIA CEO Ignites AI Conversation in Stockholm

Supersizing AI: Sweden Turbocharges Its Innovation Engine

Sweden is outfitting its AI supercomputer for a journey to the cutting edge of machine learning, robotics and healthcare. It couldn’t ask for a better guide than Anders Ynnerman (above). His signature blue suit, black spectacles and gentle voice act as calm camouflage for a pioneering spirit. Early on, he showed a deep interest in… Continue reading Supersizing AI: Sweden Turbocharges Its Innovation Engine