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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...

5 things about AI you may have missed today: China warns of AI risks, Elon Musk as Indian groom and more

[ad_1] The field of artificial intelligence is one of huge extremes. While on one end, companies like Google and Microsoft are rolling out AI products virtually every day, on the other hand, major protests are taking place that want the rise of AI to be halted. And these protests include major AI researchers including the father of AI Geoffrey Hinton and the man that started the AI craze, the founder and CEO of OpenAI Sam Altman. In a development to the protests, today China also called for security measures against AI, highlighting its risks. In a separate, lighter vein, a digital artist used AI to reimagine Elon Musk as an Indian groom. This and more in our daily AI roundup. Let us take a look.China warns of AI risksThe ruling party of China, the Chinese Communist Party, called for ma...

“I have just turned everyone into a programmer,” says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang

[ad_1] Jensen Huang, chief executive officer of chip phenom Nvidia Corp., is getting the kind of treatment usually reserved for celebrities and sports stars during a trip to Taiwan.The 60-year-old was followed around a local night market as he picked up food over the weekend, and has been mobbed constantly by fans and media as he walked the hallways at the Computex trade show. On Tuesday, dozens of people crowded in next to him for selfies, while photographers tried to get clear shots. The day marked Huang's fifth public appearance in seven days, this time for a roundable where he fielded questions on topics from artificial-intelligence regulation to how the technology would be used in places like China. Huang made the case that AI will spill over the boundaries of the tech industry int...