Category: Hardware

Artist Zhelong Xu Brings Chinese Zodiac to Life for Lunar New Year This Week ‘In the NVIDIA Studio’

Editor’s note: This post is part of our weekly In the NVIDIA Studio series, which celebrates featured artists, offers creative tips and tricks, and demonstrates how NVIDIA Studio technology improves creative workflows. We’re also deep diving on new GeForce RTX 40 Series GPU features, technologies and resources, and how they dramatically accelerate content creation. To celebrate the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday, NVIDIA artist Zhelong Xu, aka Uncle Light, brought Chinese zodiac signs to life this week In the NVIDIA Studio — modernizing the ancient mythology in his signature style. Chinese Tradition Brought to the 21st Century NVIDIA principal artist ... Read more

NVIDIA and Dell Technologies Expand AI Portfolio

In their largest-ever joint AI initiative, NVIDIA and Dell Technologies today launched a wave of Dell PowerEdge systems available with NVIDIA acceleration, enabling enterprises to efficiently transform their businesses with AI. A total of 15 next-generation Dell PowerEdge systems can draw from NVIDIA’s full AI stack — including GPUs, DPUs and the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software suite — providing enterprises the foundation required for a wide range of AI applications, including speech recognition, cybersecurity, recommendation systems and a growing number of groundbreaking language-based services. The news was released at Dell’s PowerEdge .Next event, where NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang ... Read more

Sequoia Capital’s Pat Grady and Sonya Huang on Generative AI

For insights into the future of generative AI, check out the latest episode of the NVIDIA AI Podcast. Host Noah Kravitz is joined by Pat Grady and Sonya Huang, partners at Sequoia Capital, to discuss their recent essay, “Generative AI: A Creative New World.” The authors delve into the potential of generative AI to enable new forms of creativity and expression, as well as the challenges and ethical considerations of this technology. Grady and Huang emphasize the potential of generative AI to revolutionize industries such as art, design and media by allowing for the creation of unique, personalized content on ... Read more

The Ultimate Upgrade: GeForce RTX 4080 SuperPOD Rollout Begins Today

The Ultimate upgrade begins today: GeForce NOW RTX 4080 SuperPODs are now rolling out, bringing a new level of high-performance gaming to the cloud. Ultimate members will start to see RTX 4080 performance in their region soon, and experience titles like  Warhammer 40,000: Darktide, Cyberpunk 2077, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and more at ultimate quality. New features are also available now for Ultimate members streaming from RTX 3080 servers, and members will be able to check GFN Thursday each week for availability updates in their regions. Plus, get ready for 10 more supported games in the GeForce NOW library. ... Read more

Roll Model: Smart Stroller Pushes Its Way to the Top at CES 2023

As any new mom or dad can tell you, parenting can be a challenge — packed with big worries and small hassles. But it may be about to get a little bit easier thanks to Glüxkind Technologies and their smart stroller, Ella. The company has just been named a CES 2023 Innovation Awards Honoree for their AI-powered stroller, which was designed to make life easier for new parents and caregivers. “People love the rock-a-baby feature and the push and brake assist,” said Glüxkind co-founder and CEO Kevin Huang of a product that’s become an instant sensation at the annual technology ... Read more

The Greenest Generation: NVIDIA, Intel and Partners Supercharge AI Computing Efficiency

AI is at the heart of humanity’s most transformative innovations — from developing COVID vaccines at unprecedented speeds and diagnosing cancer to powering autonomous vehicles and understanding climate change. Virtually every industry will benefit from adopting AI, but the technology has become more resource intensive as neural networks have increased in complexity. To avoid placing unsustainable demands on electricity generation to run this computing infrastructure, the underlying technology must be as efficient as possible. Accelerated computing powered by NVIDIA GPUs and the NVIDIA AI platform offer the efficiency that enables data centers to sustainably drive the next generation of breakthroughs. ... Read more

NVIDIA Releases Major Update to Omniverse Enterprise

The latest release of NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise, available now, brings increased performance, generational leaps in real-time RTX ray and path tracing, and streamlined workflows to help teams build connected 3D pipelines, and develop and operate large-scale, physically accurate, virtual 3D worlds like never before. Artists, designers, engineers and developers can benefit from various enhancements across common Omniverse use cases, including breaking down 3D data silos through aggregation, building custom 3D pipeline tools and generating synthetic 3D data. The release includes support for the breakthrough innovations within the new NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture, including third-generation RTX technology and DLSS 3, delivering ... Read more

UF Provost Joe Glover on Building a Leading AI University

When NVIDIA co-founder Chris Malachowsky approached University of Florida Provost Joe Glover with the offer of an AI supercomputer, he couldn’t have predicted the transformative impact it would have on the university. In just a short time, UF has become one of the top public colleges in the U.S. and developed a groundbreaking neural network for healthcare research. In a recent episode of NVIDIA’s AI Podcast, host Noah Kravitz sat down with Glover, who is also senior vice president of academic affairs at UF. The two discussed the university’s efforts to put AI to work across all aspects of higher ... Read more

GFN Thursday Adds New Titles From THQ Nordic to GeForce NOW

GFN Thursday kicks each weekend off with new games and updates straight from the cloud. This week adds more games from publisher THQ Nordic to the GeForce NOW library, as part seven total additions. Members can gear up to play these new titles the ultimate way with the upcoming release of the new Ultimate membership, delivering RTX 4080-class performance and elevated cloud gaming perks. Just announced at CES 2023, HP is adding support for NVIDIA GeForce NOW through its OMEN Gaming Hub. Members will have access to the GeForce NOW library of over 1,500 titles built right into their latest ... Read more

3D Artist ‘CG Geek’ Builds Massive Sci-Fi World in Record Time This Week ‘In the NVIDIA Studio’

Editor’s note: This post is part of our weekly In the NVIDIA Studio series, which celebrates featured artists, offers creative tips and tricks, and demonstrates how NVIDIA Studio technology improves creative workflows. We’re also deep diving on new GeForce RTX 40 Series GPU features, technologies and resources, and how they dramatically accelerate content creation. 3D and animation extraordinaire CG Geek completed an ambitious design challenge this week In the NVIDIA Studio — building a massive, sci-fi-inspired 3D world in only three days. The creation of the world, dubbed The Fullness of Time, was fast-tracked by his GeForce RTX 4090 GPU. ... Read more

NVIDIA Helps Retail Industry Tackle Its $100 Billion Shrink Problem

The global retail industry has a $100 billion problem. “Shrinkage” — the loss of goods due to theft, damage and misplacement — significantly crimps retailers’ profits. An estimated 65% of shrinkage is due to theft, according to the National Retail Federation’s 2022 Retail Security Survey, conducted in partnership with the Loss Prevention Research Council. And many retailers are reporting theft has more than doubled recently, driven by rising prices of food and other essentials. To make it easier for developers to quickly build and roll out applications designed to prevent theft, NVIDIA today announced three Retail AI Workflows, built on its ... Read more

Tipping Point: NVIDIA DRIVE Scales AI-Powered Transportation at CES 2023

Autonomous vehicle (AV) technology is heading to the mainstream. The NVIDIA DRIVE ecosystem showcased significant milestones toward widespread intelligent transportation at CES. Growth is occurring in vehicle deployment plans as well as AI solutions integrating further into the car. Foxconn joined the NVIDIA DRIVE ecosystem. The world’s largest technology manufacturer will produce electronic control units based on the NVIDIA DRIVE Orin systems-on-a-chip and build its electric vehicles using the NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion platform. The Polestar 3, which is powered by NVIDIA DRIVE Orin, made its U.S. debut, showcasing its new driver-monitoring system. Working with intelligent sensing company Smart Eye, the ... Read more