Support for Battle.net on GeForce NOW expands this GFN Thursday, as titles from the iconic StarCraft and Diablo series come to the cloud. StarCraft Remastered, StarCraft II, Diablo II: Resurrected and Diablo III are part of 16 new games joining the GeForce NOW library of more than 1,900 titles. Plus, a new update rolling out for members this week brings AV1 streaming to Mac M3 computers. This feature will improve game-streaming quality for members on M3, M3 Pro and M3 Max devices. Plenty of Space in Hell Dive into the original Blizzard games that set the stage for real-time strategy and action ..read more

Editor’s note: This post is part of Into the Omniverse, a series focused on how artists, developers and enterprises can transform their workflows using the latest advances in OpenUSD and NVIDIA Omniverse. Universal Scene Description, aka OpenUSD, is elevating the manufacturing game. Siemens, a leader in industrial technology, has embraced OpenUSD as a cornerstone of its digital transformation journey, using it to help bridge the gap between physical and virtual worlds. Siemens is adding support for OpenUSD in its Siemens Xcelerator platform applications, starting with Teamcenter X software. Th ..read more

To address the shift to electric vehicles, increased semiconductor demand, manufacturing onshoring, and ambitions for greater sustainability, manufacturers are investing in new factory developments and re-engineering their existing facilities. These projects often run over budget and schedule, due to complex and manual planning processes, legacy technology infrastructure, and disconnected tools, data and teams. To address these challenges, manufacturers are embracing digitalization and virtual factories, powered by technologies like digital twins, the Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD) ecos ..read more

To help customers make more efficient use of their AI computing resources, NVIDIA today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Run:ai, a Kubernetes-based workload management and orchestration software provider. Customer AI deployments are becoming increasingly complex, with workloads distributed across cloud, edge and on-premises data center infrastructure. Managing and orchestrating generative AI, recommender systems, search engines and other workloads requires sophisticated scheduling to optimize performance at the system level and on the underlying infrastructure. R ..read more

Whether they’re monitoring miniscule insects or delivering insights from satellites in space, NVIDIA-accelerated startups are making every day Earth Day. Sustainable Futures, an initiative within the NVIDIA Inception program for cutting-edge startups, is supporting 750+ companies globally focused on agriculture, carbon capture, clean energy, climate and weather, environmental analysis, green computing, sustainable infrastructure and waste management. This Earth Day, discover how five of these sustainability-focused startups are advancing their work with accelerated computing and the NVIDIA Ear ..read more

NVIDIA today announced optimizations across all its platforms to accelerate Meta Llama 3, the latest generation of the large language model (LLM). The open model combined with NVIDIA accelerated computing equips developers, researchers and businesses to innovate responsibly across a wide variety of applications. Trained on NVIDIA AI Meta engineers trained Llama 3 on computer clusters packing 24,576 NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs, linked with RoCE and NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand networks. To further advance the state of the art in generative AI, Meta recently described plans to scale its infrastr ..read more

It’s time to get a little wicked. Members can now stream No Rest for the Wicked from the cloud. It leads six new games joining the GeForce NOW library of more than 1,500 games. Holy Moly There’s always another fight to be won. No Rest for the Wicked is the highly anticipated action role-playing game from Moon Studios, developer of the Ori series, and publisher Private Division. Amid a plague-ridden world, step into the boots of a Cerim, a holy warrior on a desperate mission. The Great Pestilence has ravaged the land of Sacra, and a new king reigns. As a colonialist inquisition unfolds, engage ..read more

NVIDIA today recognized 18 partners in Europe, the Middle East and Africa for their achievements and commitment to driving AI adoption. The recipients were honored at the annual EMEA Partner Day hosted by the NVIDIA Partner Network (NPN). The awards span seven categories that highlight the various ways partners work with NVIDIA to transform the region’s industries with AI. “This year marks another milestone for NVIDIA and our partners across EMEA as we pioneer technological breakthroughs and unlock new business opportunities using NVIDIA’s full-stack platform,” said Dirk Barfuss, director of E ..read more

Step into the realm of the unseen with Robin Wang, CEO of Living Optics. The startup cofounder discusses the power of hyperspectral imaging with AI Podcast host Noah Kravitz in an episode recorded live at the NVIDIA GTC global AI conference. Living Optics’ hyperspectral imaging camera, which can capture visual data across 96 colors, reveals details invisible to the human eye. Potential applications are as diverse as monitoring plant health to detecting cracks in bridges. The startup aims to empower users across industries to gain new insights from richer, more informative datasets fueled by hy ..read more

Editor’s note: This post is part of the AI Decoded series, which demystifies AI by making the technology more accessible, and which showcases new hardware, software, tools and accelerations for RTX PC users. Imagine a gorgeous vista, like a cliff along the water’s edge. Even as a 2D image, the scene would be beautiful and inviting. Now imagine exploring that same view in 3D – without needing to be there. NVIDIA RTX technology-powered AI helps turn such an imagination into reality. Using Instant NeRF, creatives are transforming collections of still images into digital 3D scenes in just seconds ..read more