An American tech company worth $2.21 trillion effectively demonstrated how AI changed the world, leaving the industry in awe with its latest breakthrough. According to news.com.au, NVIDIA Founder/CEO presented the company’s new superchip, quantum computing service, and tools for developing humanoid robots during its annual AI conference on Monday.
“I hope you realise this is not a concert, this is a developers conference.”
NVIDIA Founder/CEO Jensen Huang
NVIDIA unveils the next-gen Blackwell GPU
Billionaire NVIDIA boss Jensen Huang officially introduced the company’s next-gen Blackwell GPU, which is apparently fourfold faster than its predecessor.
“We need bigger GPUs. So ladies and gentlemen, I would like to introduce you to a very, very big GPU.”
NVIDIA Founder/CEO Jensen Huang
The Blackwell series of AI chips is crucial to powering data centres that train models, including GPT’s latest iterations, Claude and Gemini.
For instance, the Blackwell B200 is basically an upgrade from the previous H100 AI chip. According to NVIDIA, training a large AI model with the size of GPT-4 would necessitate approximately 8,000 H100 chips and 15 megawatts of power. Notably, this level of energy is sufficient to power around 30,000 typical British households.
In contrast, the new chips would only need about 2,000 B200s and 4MW of power. Therefore, this breakthrough can enable the AI industry to cut electricity consumption.
NVIDIA unveils the GB200 “superchip”
Apart from the Blackwell B200, NVIDIA also introduced the Blackwell GB200 “superchip.”
According to The Guardian, the superchip integrates two B200 chips on a single board with NVIDIA’s Grace CPU to create a system that yields “30x the performance” for server farms that run chatbots like Claude and ChatGPT. It also claims to be capable of cutting energy consumption by up to 25 times.
Incorporating everything on a single board enhances efficiency as it accelerates the chips’ communication with each other. It enables the chips to allocate more of their processing time to the calculations that aid chatbots talk or even sing.
Project Gr00t
NVIDIA also unveiled “Project Gr00t,” which it describes as the world’s first human foundation model.”
Gr00t will help robots comprehend people’s messages and mimic movements as they learn from their world-interaction experiences.
“[It] will enable a robot to learn from a handful of human demonstrations so it can help with everyday tasks and emulate human movement just by observing us.”
NVIDIA
In addition, NVIDIA also disclosed its partnership with Apple to integrate AI features into the newly developed Vision Pro spatial computing gear. It also introduced the Earth-2 Cloud Platform, which uses simulation by AI supercomputers to predict climate change.
NVIDIA’s significant advancement in the AI industry boosted its share price by roughly 250% in the past 12 months, surpassing Amazon in terms of market capitalization.
