Nvidia's 'Woodstock of AI' was all the rage. Here are some highlights
Nvidia, the chipmaker behind the most desired hardware in the world, unveiled the next generation of its AI chip, Blackwell, at its GPU Technology Conference this week. The event in San Jose, California — dubbed the “Woodstock of AI” by employees and analysts — hosted thousands of people, including AI power players like Brad Lightcap, the chief operating officer of OpenAI, and Arthur Mensch, the chief executive of Mistral AI, . The conference even saw some others companies benefit from a “Nvidia bump.”
Check out the highlights.
Nvidia’s ‘Woodstock of AI’ has begun. Here’s what to know
The frenzy over Nvidia’s H100 chips has worried some companies over shortages, and competitors keen to stay ahead in the AI race have started building their own versions of the chips. Amazon has worked on two chips called Inferentia and Tranium, while Google has been working on its Tensor Processing Units.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiled a ‘very big’ new chip at his company’s ‘Woodstock of AI’
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiled the AI chipmaker’s highly anticipated new processor, saying tech giants like Microsoft and Google are already eagerly awaiting its arrival. Nvidia’s rise has been fueled by its $40,000 H100 chips, which power the so-called large language models needed to run generative AI chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Huang unveiled Nvidia’s next-generation GPU “Blackwell,” named after mathematician David Blackwell, the first Black scholar inducted into the National Academy of Sciences.
Nvidia has a ‘very big’ new AI chip called Blackwell. Here’s what to know
The Blackwell computing platform includes the new B200 chip, made up of 208 billion transistors. It will be faster and more powerful than its predecessor, the hugely in-demand, $40,000 H100 chip named after computer scientist Grace Hopper, which is behind some of the world’s most powerful AI models. The Blackwell platform is named after mathematician David Blackwell, who was the first Black scholar inducted into the National Academy of Sciences. “Hopper is fantastic, but we need bigger GPUs,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said, referring to graphics processing units, as AI chips are know, “So ladies and gentlemen, I’d like to introduce you to a very big GPU.”
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