Crowning Achievement: NVIDIA Research Model Enables Fast, Efficient Dynamic Scene Reconstruction

Content streaming and engagement are entering a new dimension with QUEEN, an AI model by NVIDIA Research and the University of Maryland that makes it possible to stream free-viewpoint video, which lets viewers experience a 3D scene from any angle. QUEEN could be used to build immersive streaming applications that teach skills like cooking, put
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What Is Retrieval-Augmented Generation, aka RAG?

Editor’s note: This article, originally published on November 15, 2023, has been updated. To understand the latest advance in generative AI, imagine a courtroom. Judges hear and decide cases based on their general understanding of the law. Sometimes a case — like a malpractice suit or a labor dispute — requires special expertise, so judges
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From Algorithms to Atoms: NVIDIA ALCHEMI NIM Catalyzes Sustainable Materials Research for EV Batteries, Solar Panels and More

More than 96% of all manufactured goods — ranging from everyday products, like laundry detergent and food packaging, to advanced industrial components, such as semiconductors, batteries and solar panels — rely on chemicals that cannot be replaced with alternative materials. With AI and the latest technological advancements, researchers and developers are studying ways to create
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Indonesia Tech Leaders Team With NVIDIA and Partners to Launch Nation’s AI

Working with NVIDIA and its partners, Indonesia’s technology leaders have launched an initiative to bring sovereign AI to the nation’s more than 277 million Indonesian speakers. The collaboration is grounded in a broad public-private partnership that reflects the nation’s concept of “gotong royong,” a term describing a spirit of mutual assistance and community collaboration. NVIDIA
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Japan Develops Next-Generation Drug Design, Healthcare Robotics and Digital Health Platforms

To provide high-quality medical care to its population — around 30% of whom are 65 or older — Japan is pursuing sovereign AI initiatives supporting nearly every aspect of healthcare. AI tools trained on country-specific data and local compute infrastructure are supercharging the abilities of Japan’s clinicians and researchers so they can care for patients,
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Bring Receipts: New NVIDIA AI Workflow Detects Fraudulent Credit Card Transactions

Financial losses from worldwide credit card transaction fraud are expected to reach $43 billion by 2026. A new NVIDIA AI workflow for fraud detection running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) can help combat this burgeoning epidemic — using accelerated data processing and advanced algorithms to improve AI’s ability to detect and prevent credit card transaction
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US Healthcare System Deploys AI Agents, From Research to Rounds

The U.S. healthcare system is adopting digital health agents to harness AI across the board, from research laboratories to clinical settings. The latest AI-accelerated tools — on display at the NVIDIA AI Summit taking place this week in Washington, D.C. — include NVIDIA NIM, a collection of cloud-native microservices that support AI model deployment and
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NVIDIA and Microsoft Give AI Startups a Double Dose of Acceleration

NVIDIA is expanding its collaboration with Microsoft to support global AI startups across industries — with an initial focus on healthcare and life sciences companies. Announced today at the HLTH healthcare innovation conference, the initiative connects the startup ecosystem by bringing together the NVIDIA Inception global program for cutting-edge startups and Microsoft for Startups to
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NVIDIA Blackwell Sets New Standard for Generative AI in MLPerf Inference Debut

As enterprises race to adopt generative AI and bring new services to market, the demands on data center infrastructure have never been greater. Training large language models is one challenge, but delivering LLM-powered real-time services is another. In the latest round of MLPerf industry benchmarks, Inference v4.1, NVIDIA platforms delivered leading performance across all 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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