☕️ Nvidia Takes Center Stage

Nvidia seems hellbent on taking the spotlight this week in AI with its GTC 2024 conference, showing off a terrifying enterprise AI chip dubbed Blackwell, its new NIM microservice platform, and Project GR00T for humanoid robotics. Though as bright as Nvidia is, there's more happening elsewhere, with xAI and Elon Musk making Grok open source and Apple looking into powering its iPhones with Google's AI tech. Join us at AI Tangle as we untangle this week's happenings in the world of AI.

Nvidia unveils monstrous Blackwell AI chip at GTC 2024 to further extend its lead in AI

On Monday at GTC 2024 in San Jose, California, the leather-jacket-loving CEO of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, showed off at the conference's keynote its brand-new platform nicknamed Blackwell - And Nvidia isn't playing around. Emphasizing how the core of the processor at the heart of Blackwell was "pushing the limits of physics how big a chip could be," Huang was holding $10 billion in his hand in the form of a Blackwell prototype, and it wouldn't be long until the rest of the world got it for cheaper.

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How special is it?

The Blackwell B200 GPU boasts a whopping 8 TB/s of memory bandwidth, 192 GB of HBM3E memory, and 208 billion transistors, more than double compared to its predecessor, the Hopper H100, with 80 billion transistors. What's more impressive, though, is the GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip, which Nvidia describes as a game-changing innovation in AI computing, combining 2 Blackwell B200s and a Grace CPU with unparalleled energy efficiency, purpose-built for handling AI workloads.

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xAI open sources Grok amidst Elon Musk's lawsuit with OpenAI

After promising to ​make Grok open source just a week prior​ amidst its lawsuit with OpenAI, Elon Musk and xAI have done just that, with Grok becoming the world's largest open-source model, ​now available on GitHub​ for researchers and developers to build on the model and even use it for commercial, as indicated by its Apache 2.0 license. An ​xAI blog post​ specifies that the version of Grok being open-sourced is Grok-1, a Mixture-of-Experts model with 314 billion parameters and a last pre-training checkpoint of October 2023.

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Nvidia launches generative AI microservices to make it easier to deploy AI models, dubbed NIM

Once again, at the company's GTC 2024 conference, Nvidia announced NIM, a new software platform designed to make deploying custom and pre-trained AI models into production environments smoother and standardized. NIM already supports a long list of models from a variety of companies: Google, Hugging Face, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral AI, Stability AI, and, of course, itself, with the company already in talks with Microsoft, Amazon, and Google to bring the NIM microservices to Azure AI, SageMaker and Kubernetes Engine, respectively.

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Qualcomm unveils its 8S Gen 3 phone chipset with on-device AI

Qualcomm, an American semiconductor and software company and bigshot in the mobile market, just launched the Snapdragon 8S Gen 3 chipset, one to bridge the gap between flagship features and affordable smartphones. The Snapdragon 8S Gen 3 comes with on-device support for AI to take mid-range phones to greater heights, with many names such as Redmi, Xiaomi, Honor, and iQOO all saying that they would have new devices built on Qualcomm's brand new platform "in the coming months."

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Apple is eyeing a Google Gemini license for its AI-powered features on the iPhone

Apple, the tech giant that's slowly been ramping up development in AI, is ​reportedly in talks with Google​ to get Gemini to power some of the iPhone's features, much to the surprise of many, eyeing a Google AI license to introduce AI features in its upcoming iOS updates later this year. Despite finally accelerating development in the AI field, Apple is behind other competitors such as Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI, and outsourcing AI tech for its iPhone could hint that the company hasn't been all too successful with its endeavors just yet.

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Project GR00T, Nvidia's new AI platform in the landscape of humanoid robotics

The poster child of AI chips, Nvidia, has recently shown interest in robotics with the announcement of Project GR00T, a new platform that will serve as "a general-purpose foundation model for humanoid robots," along with almost every humanoid robot maker on board except Tesla. The showcase also featured two more key programs: Isaac Manipulator and Isaac Perceptor, with the company writing that "Isaac Manipulator offers state-of-the-art dexterity and modular AI capabilities for robotic arms, with a robust collection of foundation models and GPU accelerated libraries."

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Hippocratic AI raises $53 million in Series A funding towards a future with AI in healthcare

Generative AI healthcare startup Hippocratic AI recently announced a successful round of Series A funding, bagging $53 million at a valuation of $500 million, with venture firms such as General Catalyst and Premji Invest leading at the front. The startup also announced a partnership with Nvidia with plans to leverage the AI giant's hardware to make super-low-latency conversational interactions between its AI agents and patients to improve engagement and make for a more authentic experience.

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