The future of healthcare is software-defined and AI-enabled. Around 700 FDA-cleared, AI-enabled medical devices are now on the market — more than 10x the number available in 2020.   Many of the innovators behind this boom announced their latest AI-powered solutions at NVIDIA GTC, a global conference that last week attracted more than 16,000 business leaders, developers and researchers in Silicon Valley — and many more online.  Designed to make healthcare more efficient and help improve patient outcomes, these new technologies include foundation models to accelerate ultrasound a ..read more

Automotive companies are transforming every phase of their product lifecycle — evolving their primarily physical, manual processes into software-driven, AI-enhanced digital systems. To help them save costs and reduce lead times, NVIDIA is announcing two new simulation engines on Omniverse Cloud: the virtual factory simulation engine and the autonomous vehicle (AV) simulation engine. Omniverse Cloud, a platform-as-a-service for developing and deploying applications for industrial digitalization, is hosted on Microsoft Azure. This one-stop shop enables automakers worldwide to unify digitalizati ..read more

In the world’s largest solar race car event of the year, the University of New South Wales Sunswift Racing team is having its day in the sun. The World Solar Challenge, which first began some 35 years ago, attracts academic participants from across the globe. This year’s event drew nearly 100 competitors. The race runs nearly 1,900 miles over the course of about four days and pits challengers in a battle not for speed but for greatest energy efficiency. UNSW Sydney won the energy efficiency competition and crossed the finish line first, taking the Cruiser Cup with its Sunswift 7 vehicle, whic ..read more

Generative AI promises to revolutionize every industry it touches — all that’s been needed is the technology to meet the challenge. NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang on Monday introduced that technology — the company’s new Blackwell computing platform — as he outlined the major advances that increased computing power can deliver for everything from software to services, robotics to medical technology and more. “Accelerated computing has reached the tipping point — general purpose computing has run out of steam,” Huang told more than 11,000 GTC attendees gathered in-person — and many tens of ..read more

With nearly two dozen world records to its name, NVIDIA cuOpt now holds the top spot for 100% of the largest routing benchmarks in the last three years. And this means the route optimization engine allows industries to hop on board for all kinds of cost-saving efficiencies. Kawasaki Heavy Industries and SyncTwin are among the companies that are riding cuOpt for logistics improvements. Today at GTC 2024, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang announced that cuOpt is moving into general availability. “With cuOpt, NVIDIA is reinventing logistics management and operations research. It is NVIDIA’s pr ..read more

AI — already used to connect, analyze and offer predictions based on operating room data — will be critical to the future of surgery, boosting operating room efficiency and clinical decision-making. That’s why NVIDIA is working with Johnson & Johnson MedTech to test new AI capabilities for the company’s connected digital ecosystem for surgery. It aims to enable open innovation and accelerate the delivery of real-time insights at scale to support medical professionals before, during and after procedures. J&J MedTech is in 80% of the world’s operating rooms and trains more than 140,000 ..read more

The NVIDIA Isaac robotics platform is tapping into the latest generative AI and advanced simulation technologies to accelerate AI-enabled robotics. At GTC today, NVIDIA announced Isaac Manipulator and Isaac Perceptor — a collection of foundation models, robotics tools and GPU-accelerated libraries. On stage before a crowd of 10,000-plus, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang demonstrated Project GR00T, which stands for Generalist Robot 00 Technology, a general-purpose foundation model for humanoid robot learning. Project GR00T leverages  various tools from the NVIDIA Isaac robotics platfor ..read more

Interest in new AI applications reached a fever pitch last year as business leaders began exploring AI pilot programs. This year, they’re focused on strategically implementing these programs to create new value and sharpen their competitive advantage. GTC, NVIDIA’s conference on AI and accelerated computing, set for March 18-21 at the San Jose Convention Center, will feature leaders across a broad swath of industries discussing how they’re charting the path to AI-driven innovation. Execs from Bentley Systems, Lowe’s, Siemens and Verizon are among those sharing their companies’ AI journeys. Do ..read more

With advances in computing, sophisticated AI models and machine learning are having a profound impact on business and society. Industries can use AI to quickly analyze vast bodies of data, allowing them to derive meaningful insights, make predictions and automate processes for greater efficiency. In the public sector, government agencies are achieving superior disaster preparedness. Biomedical researchers are bringing novel drugs to market faster. Telecommunications providers are building more energy-efficient networks. Manufacturers are trimming emissions from product design, development and ..read more

The AI revolution returned to where it started this week, putting powerful new tools into the hands of gamers and content creators. Generative AI models that will bring lifelike characters to games and applications and new GPUs for gamers and creators were among the highlights of a news-packed address Monday ahead of this week’s CES trade show in Las Vegas. “Today, NVIDIA is at the center of the latest technology transformation: generative AI,” said Jeff Fisher, senior vice president for GeForce at NVIDIA, who was joined by leaders across the company to introduce products and partnerships acr ..read more