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5 things about AI you may have missed today: Taiwan’s AI revolution, Tim Cook advocates AI and more
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5 things about AI you may have missed today: Taiwan’s AI revolution, Tim Cook advocates AI and more

[ad_1] Nvidia CEO applauds Taiwan's key role in AI revolution; Tim Cook advocates AI for business carbon footprint reduction; UK launches AI project to track Hedgehog populations; Baidu stocks soar on Apple collaboration for AI services in China- this and more in our daily roundup. Let us take a look.1. Nvidia CEO applauds Taiwan's key role in AI revolutionNvidia CEO Jensen Huang praises Taiwan's pivotal role in the AI revolution, emphasising its central position in technological advancements. He reminisces about Nvidia's beginnings and its collaboration with Taiwanese firms like TSMC. Huang reaffirms Nvidia's commitment to innovation and partnership, recognizing Taiwan's significant contribution. He concludes by expressing gratitude and affection for his Taiwanese collaborators, accord...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Faces Sky-High Investor Expectations at Upcoming AI Conference
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Faces Sky-High Investor Expectations at Upcoming AI Conference

[ad_1] Nvidia Corp.'s annual artificial intelligence conference is just days away and expectations are high for the semiconductor maker to deliver news that will sustain the blistering rally in its stock.  “Nvidia GTC,” the company's graphics processing unit technology event, has quickly become a global AI conference for developers. It runs from March 18-21 in San Jose, California, with Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang due to speak on the opening day. His comments may help Nvidia stock end a bout of volatility and resume its surge of more than 80% this year.“It's a huge catalyst because they'll probably give more information, not only on industry penetration,” said Ted Mortonson, technology desk sector strategist at Robert W. Baird & Co. He compared the gathering to Apple Inc.'s...
Nvidia CEO says tech advances will keep AI cost in check
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Nvidia CEO says tech advances will keep AI cost in check

[ad_1] Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang anticipates advances in computing over the next few years will keep the cost of developing artificial intelligence well below the $7 trillion that Sam Altman is said to be fundraising.“You can't assume just that you will buy more computers. You have to also assume that the computers are going to become faster and therefore the total amount that you need is not as much,” Huang told the World Government Summit in Dubai on Monday. The 60-year-old's company makes the most sought-after AI accelerators and he's confident the chip industry will drive down the cost of AI, as those parts are made “faster and faster and faster.” Huang was responding to a report in the Wall Street Journal that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is seeking to raise $7 tri...
Nvidia CEO reveals, in the age of AI, why you should not wear a watch
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Nvidia CEO reveals, in the age of AI, why you should not wear a watch

[ad_1] Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang recently attended the Chinese American Semiconductor Professional Association (CASPA), where he also participated in a Q&A session and took questions from young professionals over a wide range of topics. Huang spoke about the age of AI, the right way to progress in your career in modern times, and why he does not wear a watch. He also spent time highlighting his own career and how he climbed to the position of the CEO of Nvidia. At present, Huang is the longest-serving CEO of a tech firm, holding the Nvidia chief position since 1993 (31 years). At the CASPA session, he was asked for advice for young professionals in a dynamic and fast-changing world of AI. For the 60-year-old CEO, this opened up a pandora's box, as he explained how his own career panne...
Nvidia staffers had warned CEO Jensen Huang of threat AI would pose to minorities
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Nvidia staffers had warned CEO Jensen Huang of threat AI would pose to minorities

[ad_1] Masheika Allgood and Alexander Tsado left their 2020 meeting with Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang feeling frustrated. The pair, both former presidents of the company's Black employees group, had spent a year working with colleagues from across the company on a presentation meant to warn Huang of the potential dangers that artificial intelligence (AI) technology posed, especially to minorities.The 22-slide deck and other documents, reviewed by Bloomberg News, pointed to Nvidia's growing role in shaping the future of AI — saying its chips were making AI ubiquitous — and warned that increased regulatory scrutiny was inevitable. The discussion included instances of bias in facial-recognition technologies used by the industry to power self-driving cars. Their aim, th...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Says the US Will Take Years to Achieve Chip Independence
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Says the US Will Take Years to Achieve Chip Independence

[ad_1] Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang, who runs the semiconductor industry's most valuable company, said the US is as much as 20 years away from breaking its dependence on overseas chipmaking.Huang, speaking at the New York Times's DealBook conference in New York, explained how his company's products rely on myriad components that come from different parts of the world — not just Taiwan, where the most important elements are manufactured.  “We are somewhere between a decade and two decades away from supply chain independence,” he said. “It's not a really practical thing for a decade or two.” The outlook suggests there's a long road ahead for a key Biden administration objective — bringing more of the chipmaking industry to US shores. The president has championed bipar...
Microsoft Ignite: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says generative AI will be bigger than mobiles, internet
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Microsoft Ignite: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says generative AI will be bigger than mobiles, internet

[ad_1] Microsoft is conducting its annual developer's event called “Microsoft Ignite 2023” during which the company announced its partnership with Nvidia to start various AI projects. The CEO of Nvidia Jensen Huang took to the stage to make some significant statements about the capabilities of generative AI. He is in an especially good place to speak on generative AI as the California-based tech firm that he leads has made $6 billion in profit due to its AI offerings. Now, it's joining Microsoft to bring new innovations. Check out what Huang said about generative AI.Nvidia's statement of generative AIGenerative AI has just started emerging in creating original content in terms of text, images, music, and more. More capabilities and advancements of the technology are yet to be explored. ...
Nvidia CEO Touts India as Major AI Market in Bid to Hedge China Risks
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Nvidia CEO Touts India as Major AI Market in Bid to Hedge China Risks

[ad_1] During a five-day tour of India earlier this month, Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang visited four cities, dined with tech executives and researchers, took numerous selfies, and sat for a one-on-one conversation with Prime Minister Narendra Modi about the AI sector. Huang's India itinerary was so crammed that he confessed to surviving entire work days on spicy masala omelets and cold coffees.Huang may have been treated like a head of state, but the trip's purpose was all business. For Nvidia, whose graphics processors are vital to the development of artificial intelligence systems, the South Asian nation of 1.4 billion people presents a rare opportunity. As the US increasingly clamps down on exports of high-end chips to China and the world seeks an alternative ele...
Nvidia CEO Dispels Fears of a Chip Shortage Amid the AI Boom
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Nvidia CEO Dispels Fears of a Chip Shortage Amid the AI Boom

[ad_1] Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang, fresh off an upbeat quarterly report that sent his company's to a record high, dispelled one of investors' biggest concerns: that chip production won't keep up with demand.Though Nvidia didn't give long-term projections Wednesday, Huang said that supply will “substantially increase for the rest of this year and next year.” The company relies on vendors such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and Samsung Electronics Co. for components, and a lack of adequate inventory was seen as a challenge to its growth run. In an interview Wednesday, Huang stressed that the company was doing everything it can to stay on top of surging demand. “We're focused on increasing our supply,” Huang said. “We have to do that with great urgency, an...
Nvidia, the world’s newest, AI-amped tech giant
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Nvidia, the world’s newest, AI-amped tech giant

[ad_1] Nvidia, a chip technology company, became a trillion dollar enterprise this week and the world's newest tech giant. Here are a few key facts about the little-known firm.- Decades-old upstart -Nvidia is not an out-of-the-blue startup. Founded in 1993, Nvidia designs chips that are used in the fastest developing sectors of the tech business: gaming, video-editing, self-driving cars and, now, artificial intelligence. Its technology was also in the mix for the crypto boom. "We had this idea that computer graphics was going to be the driving force of technology and [its] fuel would be video games," co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang said in 2018.Based in California, Nvidia doesn't actually make its own chips, but rather designs them and then outsources the manufacturing to other companie...