Kris Kersey Kris Kersey is an embedded software developer with over 20 years of experience, an educational YouTuber with 30,000+ subscribers, and a lifelong lover of comics and cosplay. These interests and expertise came together in his first-ever project using the NVIDIA Jetson platform for edge AI and robotics when he created a fully functional superhero helmet as portrayed in one of his favorite Marvel Comic films, Iron Man. The 3D-printed helmet comes complete with computer-vision capabilities in a heads-up display (HUD) that presents information wherever the user’s looking, just like in t ..read more

MLPerf remains the definitive measurement for AI performance as an independent, third-party benchmark. NVIDIA’s AI platform has consistently shown leadership across both training and inference since the inception of MLPerf, including the MLPerf Inference 3.0 benchmarks released today. “Three years ago when we introduced A100, the AI world was dominated by computer vision. Generative AI has arrived,” said NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang. “This is exactly why we built Hopper, specifically optimized for GPT with the Transformer Engine. Today’s MLPerf 3.0 highlights Hopper delivering 4x more ..read more

With AI at its tipping point, AI-enabled computer vision is being used to address the world’s most challenging problems in nearly every industry. At GTC, a global conference for the era of AI and the metaverse running through Thursday, March 23, NVIDIA announced technology updates poised to drive the next wave of vision AI adoption. These include NVIDIA TAO Toolkit 5.0 for creating customized, production-ready AI models; expansions to the NVIDIA DeepStream software development kit for developing vision AI applications and services; and early access to Metropolis Microservices for powerful, cl ..read more

Global leader in convenient foods and beverages PepsiCo is deploying advanced machine vision technology from startup KoiReader Technologies, powered by the NVIDIA AI platform and GPUs, to improve efficiency and accuracy in its distribution process. PepsiCo has identified KoiReader’s technology as a solution to enable greater efficiency in reading warehouse labels. This AI-powered innovation helps read warehouse labels and barcodes in fast-moving environments where the labels can be in any size, at any angle or even partially occluded or damaged. This is up and running in a PepsiCo distributio ..read more

A million developers across the globe are now using the NVIDIA Jetson platform for edge AI and robotics to build innovative technologies. Plus, more than 6,000 companies — a third of which are startups — have integrated the platform with their products. These milestones and more will be celebrated during the NVIDIA Jetson Edge AI Developer Days at GTC, a global conference for the era of AI and the metaverse, taking place online March 20-23. Register free to learn more about the Jetson platform and begin developing the next generation of edge AI and robotics. One in a Million Atlanta-based Kri ..read more

The video above represents one of the first times that a pangolin, one of the world’s most critically endangered species, was detected in real time using artificial intelligence. A U.K.-based nonprofit called Conservation AI made this possible with the help of NVIDIA technology. Such use of AI can help track even the rarest, most reclusive of species in real time, enabling conservationists to protect them from threats, such as poachers and fires, before it’s too late to intervene. The organization was founded four years ago by researchers at Liverpool John Moores University — Paul Fergus, Car ..read more

As any new mom or dad can tell you, parenting can be a challenge — packed with big worries and small hassles. But it may be about to get a little bit easier thanks to Glüxkind Technologies and their smart stroller, Ella. The company has just been named a CES 2023 Innovation Awards Honoree for their AI-powered stroller, which was designed to make life easier for new parents and caregivers. “People love the rock-a-baby feature and the push and brake assist,” said Glüxkind co-founder and CEO Kevin Huang of a product that’s become an instant sensation at the annual technology industry confab. “Wh ..read more

Imagine trying to teach a toddler what a unicorn is. A good place to start might be by showing the child images of the creature and describing its unique features. Now imagine trying to teach an artificially intelligent machine what a unicorn is. Where would one even begin? Pretrained AI models offer a solution. A pretrained AI model is a deep learning model — an expression of a brain-like neural algorithm that finds patterns or makes predictions based on data — that’s trained on large datasets to accomplish a specific task. It can be used as is or further fine-tuned to fit an application’s s ..read more

Two months after their debut sweeping MLPerf inference benchmarks, NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs set world records across enterprise AI workloads in the industry group’s latest tests of AI training. Together, the results show H100 is the best choice for users who demand utmost performance when creating and deploying advanced AI models. MLPerf is the industry standard for measuring AI performance. It’s backed by a broad group that includes Amazon, Arm, Baidu, Google, Harvard University, Intel, Meta, Microsoft, Stanford University and the University of Toronto. In a related MLPerf benchmark also ..read more

Skycatch, a San Francisco-based startup, has been helping companies mine both data and minerals for nearly a decade. The software-maker is now digging into the creation of digital twins, with an initial focus on the mining and construction industry, using the NVIDIA Omniverse platform for connecting and building custom 3D pipelines. SkyVerse, which is a part of Skycatch’s vision AI platform, is a combination of computer vision software and custom Omniverse extensions that enables users to enrich and animate virtual worlds of mines and other sites with near-real-time geospatial data. “With Omn ..read more