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NVIDIA Unveils 6G Research Cloud Platform to Advance Wireless Communications With AI

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Monday, March 18, 2024

The NVIDIA 6G Research Cloud platform is open, flexible and interconnected, offering researchers a comprehensive suite to advance AI for radio access network (RAN) technology.

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  • The NVIDIA 6G Research Cloud platform is open, flexible and interconnected, offering researchers a comprehensive suite to advance AI for radio access network (RAN) technology.
  • Industry-leading researchers can use all elements of the 6G development research cloud platform to advance their work.
  • Leading providers in this space are working with NVIDIA to contribute to the new requirements of AI with 6G.
  • “Keysight is pleased to bring its wireless network expertise to enable the next generation of innovation in 6G communications networks.”
    The NVIDIA 6G Research Cloud platform combines these powerful foundational tools to let telcos unlock the full potential of 6G and pave the way for the future of wireless technology.

NVIDIA Powers Japan’s ABCI-Q Supercomputer for Quantum Research

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Monday, March 18, 2024

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GTC—NVIDIA today announced that Japan’s new ABCI-Q supercomputer — designed to advance the nation’s quantum computing initiative — will be powered by NVIDIA platforms for accelerated and quantum computing.

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  • SAN JOSE, Calif., March 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GTC—NVIDIA today announced that Japan’s new ABCI-Q supercomputer — designed to advance the nation’s quantum computing initiative — will be powered by NVIDIA platforms for accelerated and quantum computing.
  • The high-performance, scalable system is integrated with NVIDIA® CUDA-Q ™, an open-source hybrid quantum computing platform with powerful simulation tools and capabilities to program hybrid quantum-classical systems.
  • “Researchers need high-performance simulation to tackle the most difficult problems in quantum computing,” said Tim Costa, director of high performance computing and quantum computing at NVIDIA.
  • “The NVIDIA CUDA-Q platform and NVIDIA H100 will help these scientists pursue the next frontiers of quantum computing research.”
    ABCI-Q is part of Japan’s quantum technology innovation strategy, which aims to create new opportunities for businesses and society to benefit from quantum technology, including through research in AI, energy and biology.

NVIDIA Launches Cloud Quantum-Computer Simulation Microservices

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Monday, March 18, 2024

NVIDIA Quantum Cloud is based on the company’s open-source CUDA-Q™ quantum computing platform , which is used by three-quarters of the companies deploying quantum processing units, or QPUs.

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  • NVIDIA Quantum Cloud is based on the company’s open-source CUDA-Q™ quantum computing platform , which is used by three-quarters of the companies deploying quantum processing units, or QPUs.
  • Leading cloud service providers are integrating Quantum Cloud into their offerings, including Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, as are many leading quantum companies, such as IQM Quantum Computers, OQC, ORCA Computing, qBraid and Quantinuum.
  • Quantum computing innovators can get a head start on accelerating their quantum computing development with NVIDIA Quantum Cloud by signing up for early access.
  • To learn more about NVIDIA Quantum Cloud, watch the GTC keynote from Jensen Huang, and register for GTC for free to attend sessions from NVIDIA and industry leaders through March 21.

NVIDIA Announces Project GR00T Foundation Model for Humanoid Robots and Major Isaac Robotics Platform Update

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Monday, March 18, 2024

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GTC -- NVIDIA today announced Project GR00T, a general-purpose foundation model for humanoid robots, designed to further its work driving breakthroughs in robotics and embodied AI.

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  • SAN JOSE, Calif., March 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GTC -- NVIDIA today announced Project GR00T, a general-purpose foundation model for humanoid robots, designed to further its work driving breakthroughs in robotics and embodied AI.
  • “Building foundation models for general humanoid robots is one of the most exciting problems to solve in AI today,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA.
  • NVIDIA also announced Isaac Manipulator and Isaac Perceptor — a collection of robotics pretrained models, libraries and reference hardware.
  • Among early ecosystem partners are Yaskawa, Universal Robots, a Teradyne company, PickNik Robotics, Solomon, READY Robotics and Franka Robotics.

NVIDIA DRIVE Powers Next Generation of Transportation — From Cars and Trucks to Robotaxis and Autonomous Delivery Vehicles

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Monday, March 18, 2024

DRIVE Thor is an in-vehicle computing platform architected for generative AI applications, which are becoming paramount within the automotive industry.

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  • DRIVE Thor is an in-vehicle computing platform architected for generative AI applications, which are becoming paramount within the automotive industry.
  • Hyper is currently using NVIDIA DRIVE Orin to power its flagship model Hyper GT, which features advanced level 2+ driving capabilities.
  • XPENG has also announced it will use the NVIDIA DRIVE Thor platform as the AI brain of its next-generation EV fleets.
  • The company plans to integrate DRIVE Thor in its Waabi Driver to power safe and reliable autonomous trucks at scale.

NVIDIA Announces Omniverse Cloud APIs to Power Wave of Industrial Digital Twin Software Tools

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Monday, March 18, 2024

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NVIDIA today announced that NVIDIA Omniverse™ Cloud will be available as APIs, extending the reach of the world’s leading platform for creating industrial digital twin applications and workflows across the entire ecosystem of software makers.

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  • SAN JOSE, Calif., March 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NVIDIA today announced that NVIDIA Omniverse™ Cloud will be available as APIs, extending the reach of the world’s leading platform for creating industrial digital twin applications and workflows across the entire ecosystem of software makers.
  • Some of the world’s largest industrial software makers that are embracing Omniverse Cloud APIs into their software portfolios include: Ansys, Cadence, Dassault Systèmes for its 3DEXCITE brand, Hexagon, Microsoft, Rockwell Automation, Siemens and Trimble.
  • Cadence , a leading computational software provider, is adopting Omniverse Cloud APIs into its Cadence® Reality Digital Twin Platform so enterprises can design, simulate and optimize data centers in a digital twin prior to physical build-out.
  • Industrial-automation and digital transformation company Rockwell Automation will use Omniverse Cloud APIs to power RTX-enabled visualization.

NVIDIA Healthcare Launches Generative AI Microservices to Advance Drug Discovery, MedTech and Digital Health

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Monday, March 18, 2024

The microservices, 25 of which launched today, can accelerate transformation for healthcare companies as generative AI introduces numerous opportunities for pharmaceutical companies, doctors and hospitals.

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  • The microservices, 25 of which launched today, can accelerate transformation for healthcare companies as generative AI introduces numerous opportunities for pharmaceutical companies, doctors and hospitals.
  • These include screening for trillions of drug compounds to advance medicine, gathering better patient data to aid early disease detection and implementing smarter digital assistants.
  • “By helping healthcare companies easily build and manage AI solutions, we’re enabling them to harness the full power and potential of generative AI.”
    The new suite of healthcare microservices includes NVIDIA NIM , which provides optimized inference for a growing collection of models across imaging, medtech, drug discovery and digital health.
  • Hippocratic AI is developing task-specific Generative AI Healthcare Agents, powered by the company’s safety-focused LLM for healthcare, connected to NVIDIA Avatar Cloud Engine microservices and will utilize NVIDIA NIM for low-latency inferencing and speech recognition.

Hippocratic AI Announces Collaboration with NVIDIA to Develop Super-Low-Latency “Empathy Inference” for One of the World’s First Generative AI-Powered Healthcare Agents

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Monday, March 18, 2024

PALO ALTO, Calif., March 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, Hippocratic AI announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to develop empathetic AI healthcare agents — powered by the NVIDIA AI platform – enabling super-low-latency conversational interactions.

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  • PALO ALTO, Calif., March 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, Hippocratic AI announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to develop empathetic AI healthcare agents — powered by the NVIDIA AI platform – enabling super-low-latency conversational interactions.
  • Since LLMs run on inference engines, Hippocratic AI has termed this low latency inference: “Empathy Inference.” The AI healthcare agents are built on Hippocratic’s safety-focused large language model (LLM), the first designed specifically for healthcare.
  • Hippocratic AI is working with NVIDIA to develop a super-low-latency inference platform to power real-time use cases.
  • The company today announced that its generative AI healthcare agents out performed GPT-4 and LLaMA2 70B Chat on a bevy of safety benchmarks.

NVIDIA Announces New Switches Optimized for Trillion-Parameter GPU Computing and AI Infrastructure

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Monday, March 18, 2024

The world’s first networking platforms capable of end-to-end 800Gb/s throughput, NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand and NVIDIA Spectrum™-X800 Ethernet push the boundaries of networking performance for computing and AI workloads.

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  • The world’s first networking platforms capable of end-to-end 800Gb/s throughput, NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand and NVIDIA Spectrum™-X800 Ethernet push the boundaries of networking performance for computing and AI workloads.
  • “NVIDIA Networking is central to the scalability of our AI supercomputing infrastructure,” said Gilad Shainer, senior vice president of Networking at NVIDIA.
  • “NVIDIA X800 switches are end-to-end networking platforms that enable us to achieve trillion-parameter-scale generative AI essential for new AI infrastructures.”
    Initial adopters of Quantum InfiniBand and Spectrum-X Ethernet include Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
  • Behind this transformation is the evolution of data centers into high-performance AI engines with increased demands for networking infrastructure,” said Nidhi Chappell, Vice President of AI Infrastructure at Microsoft Azure.

TSMC and Synopsys Bring Breakthrough NVIDIA Computational Lithography Platform to Production

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Monday, March 18, 2024

“Computational lithography is a cornerstone of chip manufacturing,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA.

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  • “Computational lithography is a cornerstone of chip manufacturing,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA.
  • Computational lithography is the most compute-intensive workload in the semiconductor manufacturing process, consuming tens of billions of hours per year on CPUs.
  • “We are moving NVIDIA cuLitho into production at TSMC, leveraging this computational lithography technology to drive a critical component of semiconductor scaling.”
    Since its introduction last year, cuLitho has enabled TSMC to open new opportunities for innovative patterning technologies.
  • Synopsys’ Proteus ™ optical proximity correction software running on the NVIDIA cuLitho software library significantly speeds computational workloads compared to current CPU-based methods.