Who's who in AIAI glossary
Nvidia
The American chipmaker whose GPUs power nearly all of the world's AI. Its processors are so strategic that Washington controls their export to China, at the very heart of the technological war between the two countries.
In other words
A maker of graphics cards for video games, the company has become the first in history to surpass $5 trillion in market value.
Alyriaz articles that mention it
- Nvidia creates a circuit breaker for AIs that escape
After this summer's AI escapes, Nvidia launches a system that monitors agents from a separate chip and can cut them off in a few milliseconds.
- Nvidia invests $3.5 billion in MediaTek to defend its position
Nvidia partners with MediaTek in a deal reported at $3.5 billion, as its key customers develop their own silicon. We analyse this defensive strategy.
- Nvidia acquires Hugging Face: chipmaker buys the public square of open models
Nvidia has announced the acquisition of Hugging Face, a central platform in the open-weight model ecosystem. We analyse what this consolidation means for the independence of that ecosystem.
- Nvidia is putting into production a chip that does only one thing: respond fast
Nvidia has announced that its inference accelerator, born from its acquisition of Groq, is entering production. Here’s why a chip specialised in responding rather than training is a significant signal.
- SpaceX and Nvidia move from words to action: a computing system designed for orbit
SpaceX and Nvidia are said to have designed a space-grade version of the Vera Rubin NVL72 system, slated for an orbital launch by the end of the year. We look at what this move confirms and what it leaves unresolved.
- Nvidia teaches robots by making them dream about the consequences
Nvidia has unveiled a system that learns from videos and robot movements, then simulates the consequences of an action. We explain what this approach changes, and why it could redefine what constitutes training data.
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