Nvidia is hot on Apple’s heels as the world’s most valuable company and its future plans match that. Nvidia unveils, among other things, an affordable AI supercomputer for the home and sees robotics as a new trillion-dollar industry.
AI is once again the catchword at the CES tech fair this year and if there is one company that is crucial for artificial intelligence, it is Nvidia. The company makes the chips that many AI companies rely on, and that is reflected in the company’s enormous value, now above $3.5 trillion. Nvidia also wants to become indispensable in the AI field directly for consumers, with the new ‘AI supercomputer’ for the home.
The new Project Digits centers on Nvidia’s new GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, powerful enough to run demanding AI applications, but small enough to fit in a chassis as small as the new Mac mini. And what’s more, the chip only requires a normal power connection: normal supercomputers require a lot of power.
The Digits AI system starts at $3,000 and is powerful enough to run AI models with up to 200 billion parameters. Two Digits computers can also be linked for a capacity of up to 405 billion parameters. By comparison, Apple’s new M4 Max chip is good for models with “almost 200 billion” parameters. Nvidia wants to target the Digits system primarily at data scientists, AI researchers and students, “to give them the power to shape the AI era,” said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
Nvidia recently also launched a very small AI computer, but at a price of $249 it is aimed at a completely different target group.
Useful robots will also soon become a reality
Nvidia also sees enormous opportunities in the field of robotics. CEO Jensen Huang speaks of ‘an opportunity trillions of dollars‘. AI is of course crucial here too: by combining AI with robotics, the possibilities are endless, according to the CEO. He classifies these innovations under the heading ‘physical AI’, with everything from human robots to self-driving cars: Nvidia announced a collaboration with Toyota on such technology during CES.
According to Huang, robots have reached a tipping point: thanks to AI, the physical world can be simulated more and more completely, allowing enormous amounts of data to be created with which the robots can be trained. In the next two decades, the market for human robots will grow to a value of $38 billion, the Nvidia CEO believes.
Nvidia is kicking off this development in the field of factory robots. The company unveiled its Mega Omniverse. This is a virtual environment in which technicians can design and test robots before they are actually made. According to Nvidia, Omniverse does for understanding the physical world what language models have done for understanding text.
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