NVIDIA Launches Array of New CUDA Libraries to Expand Accelerated Computing and Deliver Order-of-Magnitude Speedup to Science and Industrial Applications

News summary: New libraries in accelerated computing deliver order-of-magnitude speedups and reduce energy consumption and costs in data processing, generative AI, recommender systems, AI data curation, data processing, 6G research, AI-physics and more. They include: LLM applications: NeMo Curator, to create custom datasets, adds image curation and Nemotron-4 340B for high-quality synthetic data generation Data
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NVIDIA to Present Innovations at Hot Chips That Boost Data Center Performance and Energy Efficiency

A deep technology conference for processor and system architects from industry and academia has become a key forum for the trillion-dollar data center computing market. At Hot Chips 2024 next week, senior NVIDIA engineers will present the latest advancements powering the NVIDIA Blackwell platform, plus research on liquid cooling for data centers and AI agents
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Straight Out of Gamescom and Into Xbox PC Games, GeForce NOW Newly Supports Automatic Xbox Sign-In

Straight out of Gamescom, NVIDIA introduced GeForce NOW support for Xbox automatic sign-in, as well as Black Myth: Wukong from Game Science and a demo for the PC launch of FINAL FANTASY XVI from Square Enix — all available in the cloud today. There are more triple-A games coming to the cloud this GFN Thursday:
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How Snowflake Is Unlocking the Value of Data With Large Language Models

Snowflake is using AI to help enterprises transform data into insights and applications. In this episode of NVIDIA’s AI Podcast, host Noah Kravitz and Baris Gultekin, head of AI at Snowflake, discuss how the company’s AI Data Cloud platform enables customers to access and manage data at scale. By separating the storage of data from
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Lightweight Champ: NVIDIA Releases Small Language Model With State-of-the-Art Accuracy

Developers of generative AI typically face a tradeoff between model size and accuracy. But a new language model released by NVIDIA delivers the best of both, providing state-of-the-art accuracy in a compact form factor. Mistral-NeMo-Minitron 8B — a miniaturized version of the open Mistral NeMo 12B model released by Mistral AI and NVIDIA last month
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SLMming Down Latency: How NVIDIA’s First On-Device Small Language Model Makes Digital Humans More Lifelike

At Gamescom this week, NVIDIA announced that NVIDIA ACE — a suite of technologies for bringing digital humans to life with generative AI — now includes the company’s first on-device small language model (SLM), powered locally by RTX AI.

High-Tech Highways: India Uses NVIDIA Accelerated Computing to Ease Tollbooth Traffic

India is home to the globe’s second-largest road network, spanning nearly 4 million miles, and has over a thousand tollbooths, most of them run manually. Traditional booths like these, wherever in the world they’re deployed, can contribute to massive traffic delays, long commute times and serious road congestion. To help automate tollbooths across India, Calsoft,
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NVIDIA Showcases New AI Capabilities With ACE, RTX Games and More at Gamescom 2024

At Gamescom, the world’s biggest gaming expo, NVIDIA has once again pushed the boundaries of gaming technology to ensure that gamers have incredibly immersive experiences and can enjoy enhanced performance and visual fidelity. The company’s announcements today include its first digital human technologies on-device small language model showcased in the first game tech demo, Mecha
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Level Up: NVIDIA, MediaTek to Bring G-SYNC Display Technologies to More Gamers

New collaboration integrates G-SYNC technologies into MediaTek scalers, enhancing gaming monitors’ capabilities and broadening availability.

NVIDIA Announces First Digital Human Technologies On-Device Small Language Model, Improving Conversation for Game Characters

NVIDIA’s first digital human technology small language model is being demonstrated in Mecha BREAK, a new multiplayer mech game developed by Amazing Seasun Games, to bring its characters to life and provide a more dynamic and immersive gameplay experience on GeForce RTX AI PCs. The new on-device model, called Nemotron-4 4B Instruct, improves the conversation
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