Join Gen AI enterprise leaders in Boston on March 27 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversations surrounding data integrity. Request an invite here.
Last weekend I flew to San Francisco, preparing for several days of immersion into all things Nvidia and AI. I needed to muster all of my energy for the company’s annual GTC conference, but I didn’t sleep in. I shrugged off my jet lag and headed down to Monterey for two days to commune with sea lions and otters — call it a Red Bull-style shot of actual nature and wildlife before joining the world of artificial intelligence and GPUs and PFLOPS.
Nvidia’s GTC conference, not surprisingly, was an absolute whirlwind. There was CEO Jensen Huang’s two-hour long keynote address at the packed SAP Center in San Jose, where he was clad in a black leather jacket that I wrote seemed “just a bit more rock and roll” than the plain versions he has sported over the past few years — in keeping with Nvidia’s soaring stock performance that seemed to give everyone reason to party. There was the gathering of the authors of ‘Attention is All You Need,’ the paper introducing Transformers which jump-started the generative AI boom. There were also hundreds of other sessions, panels, fireside chats, dinners and happy hours at Nvidia GTC — not to mention a stream of news coming out of Nvidia, capped by the announcement of its latest next-generation AI chip and platform, Blackwell.
The unceasing pace of AI industry news
But naturally, the AI beat went on as usual beyond the conference, with the typical unceasing pace of AI industry news: Microsoft dropped the mic by hiring Inflection AI CEO and co-founder Mustafa Suleyman, who was formerly cofounder of DeepMind, to run its consumer AI …
Article Attribution | Read More at Article Source
Join Gen AI enterprise leaders in Boston on March 27 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversations surrounding data integrity. Request an invite here.
Last weekend I flew to San Francisco, preparing for several days of immersion into all things Nvidia and AI. I needed to muster all of my energy for the company’s annual GTC conference, but I didn’t sleep in. I shrugged off my jet lag and headed down to Monterey for two days to commune with sea lions and otters — call it a Red Bull-style shot of actual nature and wildlife before joining the world of artificial intelligence and GPUs and PFLOPS.
Nvidia’s GTC conference, not surprisingly, was an absolute whirlwind. There was CEO Jensen Huang’s two-hour long keynote address at the packed SAP Center in San Jose, where he was clad in a black leather jacket that I wrote seemed “just a bit more rock and roll” than the plain versions he has sported over the past few years — in keeping with Nvidia’s soaring stock performance that seemed to give everyone reason to party. There was the gathering of the authors of ‘Attention is All You Need,’ the paper introducing Transformers which jump-started the generative AI boom. There were also hundreds of other sessions, panels, fireside chats, dinners and happy hours at Nvidia GTC — not to mention a stream of news coming out of Nvidia, capped by the announcement of its latest next-generation AI chip and platform, Blackwell.
The unceasing pace of AI industry news
But naturally, the AI beat went on as usual beyond the conference, with the typical unceasing pace of AI industry news: Microsoft dropped the mic by hiring Inflection AI CEO and co-founder Mustafa Suleyman, who was formerly cofounder of DeepMind, to run its consumer AI …nnDiscussion:nn” ai_name=”RocketNews AI: ” start_sentence=”Can I tell you more about this article?” text_input_placeholder=”Type ‘Yes'”]