Shopping Smart: AiFi Using AI to Spark a Retail Renaissance

Walk into a store. Grab your stuff. And walk right out again, without stopping to check out. In just the past three months, California-based AiFi has helped Choice Market increase sales at one of its Denver stores by 20 percent among customers who opted to skip the checkout line. It allowed Żabka, a Polish convenience… Continue reading Shopping Smart: AiFi Using AI to Spark a Retail Renaissance

Tesla Unveils Top AV Training Supercomputer Powered by NVIDIA A100 GPUs

Tackling one of the largest computing challenges of this lifetime requires larger than life computing. At CVPR this week, Andrej Karpathy, senior director of AI at Tesla, unveiled the in-house supercomputer the automaker is using to train deep neural networks for Autopilot and self-driving capabilities. The cluster uses 720 nodes of 8x NVIDIA A100 Tensor… Continue reading Tesla Unveils Top AV Training Supercomputer Powered by NVIDIA A100 GPUs

NVIDIA, Arm CEOs Share Vision of a Deal Made for a Hypergrowth Era

With the tech industry facing opportunities at every turn, it’s a ripe moment for NVIDIA’s acquisition of Arm, said CEOs of the companies in a frank conversation with a leading analyst. Patrick Moorhead of Moor Insights & Strategy posed tough questions and gave the deal a thumbs up in the session at the Six Five… Continue reading NVIDIA, Arm CEOs Share Vision of a Deal Made for a Hypergrowth Era

Trash to Cash: Recyclers Tap Startup with World’s Largest Recycling Network to Freshen Up Business Prospects

Matanya Horowitz smelled a problem in 2014. Fresh out of CalTech with a Ph.D., he saw that recycling centers lacked robotics and computer vision to pick through heaps of garbage-contaminated recyclables. Horowitz founded AMP Robotics that year to harness AI run on NVIDIA GPUs to turn sorting out the trash into cash. It’s a ripe… Continue reading Trash to Cash: Recyclers Tap Startup with World’s Largest Recycling Network to Freshen Up Business Prospects

To Infinity, and Beyond: Ohio State University Builds AV Cybersecurity Platform for Long-Term Research on NVIDIA DRIVE

Researchers at The Ohio State University are aiming to take autonomous driving to the limit. Autonomous vehicles require extensive development and testing for safe widespread deployment. A team at The Ohio State Center for Automotive Research (CAR) is building a Mobility Cyber Range (MCR) — a dedicated platform for cybersecurity testing — in a self-driving… Continue reading To Infinity, and Beyond: Ohio State University Builds AV Cybersecurity Platform for Long-Term Research on NVIDIA DRIVE

NVIDIA to Acquire DeepMap, Enhancing Mapping Solutions for the AV Industry

It’s time for autonomous vehicle developers to blaze new trails.  NVIDIA has agreed to acquire DeepMap, a startup dedicated to building high-definition maps for autonomous vehicles to navigate the world safely.  “The acquisition is an endorsement of DeepMap’s unique vision, technology and people,” said Ali Kani, vice president and general manager of Automotive at NVIDIA. “DeepMap is expected to extend our mapping products, help us… Continue reading NVIDIA to Acquire DeepMap, Enhancing Mapping Solutions for the AV Industry

Startup’s AI Intersects With U.S. Traffic Lights for Better Flow, Safety

Thousands of U.S. traffic lights may soon be getting the green light on AI for safer streets. That’s because startup CVEDIA has designed better and faster vehicle and pedestrian detections to improve traffic flow and pedestrian safety for Cubic Transportation Systems. These new AI capabilities will be integrated into Cubic’s GRIDSMART Solution, a single-camera intersection… Continue reading Startup’s AI Intersects With U.S. Traffic Lights for Better Flow, Safety

Riding Solo: MIT Develops Single Self-Driving Network on NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Pegasus

A new approach to autonomous driving is pursuing a solo career. Researchers at MIT are developing a single deep neural network (DNN) to power autonomous vehicles, rather than a system of multiple networks. The research, published at COMPUTEX this week, used NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Pegasus to run the network in the vehicle, processing mountains of… Continue reading Riding Solo: MIT Develops Single Self-Driving Network on NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Pegasus

What Is Synthetic Data?

Data is the new oil in today’s age of AI, but only a lucky few are sitting on a gusher. So, many are making their own fuel, one that’s both inexpensive and effective. It’s called synthetic data. What Is Synthetic Data? Synthetic data is annotated information that computer simulations or algorithms generate as an alternative… Continue reading What Is Synthetic Data?

Oh, Canada: NuPort Brings Autonomous Trucking to Toronto Roads with NVIDIA DRIVE

Autonomous truck technology is making its way across the Great White North. Self-driving trucking startup NuPort Robotics is leveraging NVIDIA DRIVE to develop autonomous driving systems for middle-mile short-haul routes. The Canada-based company is working with the Ontario government as well as Canadian Tire on a two-year pilot project to accelerate the commercial deployment of… Continue reading Oh, Canada: NuPort Brings Autonomous Trucking to Toronto Roads with NVIDIA DRIVE