NVIDIA introduced a variety of latest {hardware}, computing platforms, and simulation engines aimed toward accelerating the event of generative AI and robotics at its GTC occasion.
Yesterday, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang showcased the newest merchandise the corporate will present to builders of tomorrow’s AI options.
Huang stated, “Accelerated computing has reached the tipping level. Normal-purpose computing has run out of steam. We’d like one other manner of doing computing in order that we will proceed to scale, in order that we will proceed to drive down the price of computing, in order that we will proceed to devour increasingly computing whereas being sustainable.”
To ship the huge improve the world’s AI infrastructure wants, Huang unveiled the next new {hardware} and software program options:
- The Blackwell GPU and computing platform
- NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD supercomputer
- NIM microservices – a brand new method to create AI software program
- Omniverse – an actual world simulator for coaching robots
- Isaac Perceptor software program and Venture GR00T – a general-purpose basis mannequin for humanoid robots and robotics software program
Right here’s a more in-depth take a look at these thrilling new releases.
Blackwell
Huang stated that to allow multimodal coaching of ever-larger AI fashions the business wants a lot greater GPUs. NVIDIA claims its new Blackwell chip is “the biggest chip bodily attainable” and comprises 104 billion transistors.
Connecting two of them right into a GPU delivers a major enhance in processing. Blackwell delivers 2.5x NVIDIA’s Hopper structure efficiency in FP8 for coaching, per chip, and 5x with FP4 for inference.
The NVLink interconnect that connects these GPUs is twice as quick as its predecessor and permits for 576 Blackwell GPUs to be interconnected.
Connecting two Blackwell GPUs and a Grace CPU ends in the Grace Blackwell Superchip that kinds the premise of NVIDIA’s GB200 NVL2 racks. These ship exaflop computing in a single rack.
NVIDIA related a couple of of those to make its new AI supercomputer known as NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD which delivers 11.5 exaflops of AI supercomputing at FP4 precision.
The media launch listed AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle as first in line for the brand new computing {hardware} which NVIDIA says can “construct and run real-time generative AI on trillion-parameter massive language fashions at as much as 25x much less price and vitality consumption than its predecessor.”
That is what NVIDIA’s computing progress appears like during the last 8 years.
NVIDIA NIMs
“How will we construct software program sooner or later? It’s unlikely that you simply’ll write it from scratch or write a complete bunch of Python code or something like that,” Huang stated. “It is rather probably that you simply assemble a group of AIs.”
Huang stated that as a substitute of writing software program, firms will “assemble AI fashions, give them missions, give examples of labor merchandise, evaluation plans, and intermediate outcomes.”
NVIDIA launched a group of pre-built containers, or microservices, it calls NIM (NVIDIA Inference Microservice).
NIMs are like little containers of AI software program with a pretrained mannequin, APIs, and different software program parts inside. Firms will be capable of deploy these equally to how we use GPTs or Zapier, as a substitute of getting to recreate the performance from scratch.
Omniverse
Embodied AI, or bodily AI, is the place a number of improvement is occurring now. Coaching robots within the bodily world is dear and inefficient and NVIDIA says it has the answer for that.
Omniverse is a digital world simulation engine that acts like a digital “gymnasium” for a robotic to study articulation and the physics of interacting with the true world.
NVIDIA offers API entry to builders to coach their robots in Omniverse. Builders can create a digital twin of a bodily house, like a warehouse, and optimize automated gear and robots earlier than deploying them within the bodily house.
Isaac software program and Venture GR00T
Huang introduced new software program to assist robotics builders. Isaac Perceptor software program and the Isaac Manipulator library will assist robots see, navigate, and manipulate their environments.
NVIDIA additionally unveiled, Venture GR00T (Normal Robotics 003), a general-purpose basis mannequin for humanoid robots. This mannequin, together with the Isaac Perceptor software program will run on a brand new pc, Jetson Thor, to assist prepare robots in Omniverse after which deploy them zero-shot into the true world.
The primary day of GTC noticed some main new tech bulletins that may probably see NVIDIA’s share value proceed to climb. It’ll be attention-grabbing to see what different surprises Huang has for us over the subsequent few days.
You possibly can watch Huang’s keynote right here.
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