Jensen Huang: "We Will Push AI GPU New Technology to Its Limits"

Computex 2024 Opening
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‘Computex 2024’ opened spectacularly with a keynote speech by Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA. Although the official opening day was the 3rd, Huang captivated the Taiwanese audience from the pre-event keynote on the 2nd. He declared, "We will push GPU new technologies to their limits."

In his keynote, CEO Huang unveiled the next-generation AI graphics processing unit (GPU) ‘Rubin’ for the first time and announced plans to release it in 2026. This new version, with enhanced performance, was revealed just three months after Huang announced the ‘Blackwell Platform’ in March. At the unveiling of the new GPU, Huang stated, "We will challenge the limits of GPUs by incorporating necessary functions for data centers, including packaging, memory, and optics."

Huang also partially revealed what NVIDIA is doing alongside AI development. The projects NVIDIA is pursuing embodied the ‘AI cosmology’ he envisioned. He pointed out that the rise of generative AI has brought about a new industrial revolution and predicted continuous development of personal computers (PCs) equipped with AI technology. He explained that NVIDIA will play a crucial role in this. He expressed confidence, saying, "PCs have evolved over the past 60 years and will continue to do so. They will become smaller and lighter." He then explained the concept of ‘digital humans’ and introduced how Taiwan’s Ministry of Transportation Central Weather Bureau (CWA) uses NVIDIA’s Earth-2 digital model to more accurately predict climate changes such as typhoons in Taiwan. He also revealed that NVIDIA’s inference service NIM, which selects and introduces necessary software for AI implementation to lower adoption difficulty, has been distributed for use by 28 million developers worldwide.

He also spoke about the robotics business. NVIDIA announced that it is adopting the ‘NVIDIA Isaac Robotics Platform’ for the research, development, and production of next-generation AI-based autonomous machines and robots. Three different types of AI robots appeared on stage as well. CEO Huang said, "Someday, everything will move autonomously," adding, "We are working to advance the NVIDIA robot stack to accelerate physical generative AI."

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