With two early hits and the promise of more to come, it feels like a whole new ballgame in lending for Grant Schneider. The AI models he helped create as vice president of machine learning for Upstart are approving more personal loans at lower interest rates than the rules traditional banks use to gauge credit… Continue reading A Capital Calculator: Upstart Credits AI with Advancing Loans
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Fetching AI Data: Researchers Get Leg Up on Teaching Dogs New Tricks with NVIDIA Jetson
AI is going to the dogs. Literally. Colorado State University researchers Jason Stock and Tom Cavey have published a paper on an AI system to recognize and reward dogs for responding to commands. The graduate students in computer science trained image classification networks to determine whether a dog is sitting, standing or lying. If a… Continue reading Fetching AI Data: Researchers Get Leg Up on Teaching Dogs New Tricks with NVIDIA Jetson
Startup Couples AI with OR Video to Sharpen Surgeon Performance, Improve Patient Outcomes
AI is teaching cars to make better decisions, so could it do the same for surgeons? Addressing that question is the mission of Theator, a startup based in Palo Alto, Calif., with an R&D site in Tel Aviv, that’s striving to fuel the nascent revolution in autonomous surgery. Theator co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Dotan… Continue reading Startup Couples AI with OR Video to Sharpen Surgeon Performance, Improve Patient Outcomes
A Sense of Responsibility: Lidar Sensor Makers Build on NVIDIA DRIVE
When it comes to autonomous vehicle sensor innovation, it’s best to keep an open mind — and an open development platform. That’s why NVIDIA DRIVE is the chosen platform on which the majority of these sensors run. In addition to camera sensors, NVIDIA has long recognized that lidar is a crucial component to an autonomous… Continue reading A Sense of Responsibility: Lidar Sensor Makers Build on NVIDIA DRIVE
NIO Partners with NVIDIA to Develop a New Generation of Automated Driving Electric Vehicles
EV Models Featuring NIO Adam Supercomputer Powered by NVIDIA DRIVE Orin to Begin Production in 2022 NIO, a pioneer in China’s premium smart electric vehicle market, and NVIDIA announced today that the automaker has selected the NVIDIA DRIVE Orin™ system-on-a-chip (SoC) for its new generation of electric vehicles, which will offer advanced automated driving capabilities.… Continue reading NIO Partners with NVIDIA to Develop a New Generation of Automated Driving Electric Vehicles
Adam and EV: NIO Selects NVIDIA for Intelligent, Electric Vehicles
Chinese electric automaker NIO will use NVIDIA DRIVE for advanced automated driving technology in its future fleets, marking the genesis of truly intelligent and personalized NIO vehicles. During a global reveal event, the EV maker took the wraps off its latest ET7 sedan, which starts shipping in 2022 and features a new NVIDIA-powered supercomputer, called… Continue reading Adam and EV: NIO Selects NVIDIA for Intelligent, Electric Vehicles
Mercedes-Benz Transforms Vehicle Cockpit with NVIDIA-Powered AI
The AI cockpit has reached galactic proportions with the new Mercedes-Benz MBUX Hyperscreen. During a digital event, the luxury automaker unveiled the newest iteration of its intelligent infotainment system — a single surface extending from the cockpit to the passenger seat displaying all necessary functions at once. Dubbed the MBUX Hyperscreen, the system is powered… Continue reading Mercedes-Benz Transforms Vehicle Cockpit with NVIDIA-Powered AI
Data Makes It Beta: Roborace Returns for Second Season with Updateable Self-Driving Vehicles Powered by NVIDIA DRIVE
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, live sporting events are mostly being held without fans in the stands. At Roborace, they’re removing humans from the field as well, without sacrificing any of the action. Roborace is envisioning autonomous racing for the future. Teams compete using standardized cars powered by their own AI algorithms in a series of… Continue reading Data Makes It Beta: Roborace Returns for Second Season with Updateable Self-Driving Vehicles Powered by NVIDIA DRIVE
NVIDIA Makes a Clean Sweep of MLPerf Predictions Benchmark for Artificial Intelligence
Graphics chip giant Nvidia mopped up the floor with its competition in a benchmark set of tests released Wednesday afternoon, demonstrating better performance on a host of artificial intelligence tasks. The benchmark, called MLPerf, announced by the MLPerf organization, an industry consortium that administers the tests, showed Nvidia getting better speed on a variety of… Continue reading NVIDIA Makes a Clean Sweep of MLPerf Predictions Benchmark for Artificial Intelligence
NVIDIA Xavier Shatters Records, Excels in Back-to-Back Performance Benchmarks
AI-powered vehicles aren’t a future vision, they’re a reality today. And they’re only truly possible on NVIDIA Xavier, our system-on-a-chip for autonomous vehicles. The key to these cutting-edge vehicles is inference — the process of running AI models in real time to extract insights from enormous amounts of data. And when it comes to in-vehicle… Continue reading NVIDIA Xavier Shatters Records, Excels in Back-to-Back Performance Benchmarks