March 25, 2024

Five Key Areas of NVIDIA's GTC24 Announcements

NVIDIA's GTC24 groundbreaking announcements shaking up the AI ecosystem

NVIDIA's GTC24 was historic, with groundbreaking announcements shaking up the AI ecosystem. From unveiling the world's most powerful GPU chip - Blackwell, to showcasing AI humanoid robots (Project Groot), to major investments in digital twins, etc, the impact was immense. We were delighted to participate this year at GTC24. As promised, we are recapping all the key announcements from GTC in this special blogpost. So, let us dive in.

Five Key Areas of NVIDIA's GTC24 Announcements

1. Groundbreaking GPU Architectures: NVIDIA introduced groundbreaking GPU architectures like Blackwell and the Grace Blackwell Superchip, showcasing significant advancements in GPU technology for training and inference of massive AI models. Read more here.

2. AI Services and Microservices: The introduction of the Nvidia Inference Microservice (NIM) as a container system simplifies deploying AI models on Nvidia hardware, potentially democratizing access to advanced AI technologies and accelerating innovation across various fields. Read more here.

3. Server and Data Center Technologies: NVIDIA unveiled the GB200 NVL72 Server Design, a rack-scale server packaging 36 Grace CPUs and 72 Blackwell GPUs for 1.8 exaFLOPS of AI performance, aimed at supporting massive trillion-parameter LLMs, highlighting advancements in server and data center innovation. Read more here.

4. Strategic Partnerships and Integrations: NVIDIA's strategic partnerships with companies like Apple, Dell Technologies, SAP, and major cloud providers such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google GCP signify collaborations that aim to enhance video production, VR/AR applications, enterprise solutions, and cloud services with advanced AI technologies.

5. Generative AI and Robotics: The focus on generative AI, robotics, and humanoid robots at GTC 2024 underscores NVIDIA's commitment to advancing AI technologies in these areas, potentially impacting industries utilizing generative AI applications and robotics solutions. They announced project "GR00T," NVIDIA’s “general-purpose foundation model for humanoid robots". Read more here.


Read more here on NVIDIA's GTC announcements or watch NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang keynote on youtube here.

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