Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has revealed his company's vision for the AI-powered future.
Speaking during his keynote at the Nvidia GTC 2024 event in San Jose, Huang revealed a wide variety and number of announcements, covering everything from powerful new chips to the omniverse and even humanoid robots.
And with its recent stupendous rise as the company behind much of the AI revolution, Huang was unsurprisingly optimistic about the role Nvidia can play in the future.
The “soul of Nvidia”
“Something is definitely happening,” Huang said after taking the stage to an enthusiastic welcome from more than 10,000 keynote attendees, “the computer is the most fundamental part of today's society.”
Referring to the huge growth in AI innovation in recent months and years, Huang noted that “it's a whole new category… it's like nothing we've done before.”
“A new industry has emerged… but we need to accelerate an entire industry.”
And to promote this new industry? A new type of chip, powered by Nvidia's frankly amazing Blackwell. With vastly improved computing power, efficiency and productivity, Blackwell is poised to drive the next generation of technology.
“Accelerated computing has reached a tipping point: general-purpose computing has run out of steam,” Huang said.
“We need another way of doing computing, so that we can continue to scale, so that we can continue to reduce the cost of computing, so that we can continue to consume more and more computing and at the same time be sustainable. “Accelerated computing is a dramatic acceleration over general-purpose computing, across all industries.”
“Blackwell will just be an amazing system for generative AI… in the future, data centers will be considered AI factories,” Huang said, “Their goal in life is to generate revenue, in this case, intelligence.”
“Building basic models for general humanoid robots is one of the most interesting problems to solve in AI today,” Huang said, adding that “enabling technologies are coming together to make robotics majors around the world take giant steps.” towards artificial general robotics”.
“The entire industry is preparing for Blackwell,” Huang concluded, “the lifeblood of Nvidia: the intersection of computer graphics, physics, artificial intelligence… everything has come to the fore right now.”
