In an article for Forbes about the march of AI, machine learning and the technology that underpins both, author Stephen McBride refers to NVIDIA as “America’s most important company”. But why? Speed is key to training machine learning models cost effectively, and CPUs process slowly, so GPUs made by NVIDIA and companies like it are […]
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NVIDIA Omniverse is “Git for artists”
NVIDIA Omniverse is a powerful, multi-GPU, real-time simulation and collaboration platform for 3D production pipelines based on Pixar’s Universal Scene Description and NVIDIA RTX. For digital artists, the Omniverse possesses similar functionality to the Git collaboration platform so favoured by software developers today. USD is much more than a file format, it is a rich scene representation […]
He’s an enormous Elf: how they made Buddy look big
Have you ever wondered how, in Elf, they made Will Ferrell’s Buddy appear so much bigger than Bob Newhart’s Papa Elf and the rest of Santa’s little helpers? You might be surprised to learn that Director Jon Favreau opted for some good-old fashioned practical in-camera techniques rather than fixing it in post. A new six-minute […]
Have yourselves a Blob Opera Christmas
Google’s Blob Opera machine learning experiment is the work of David Li and Google’s Arts and Culture team. A four-choir of coloured blobs puts on operatic performances, while an interactive UI allows you to stretch and squeeze an individual blob to alter its pitch and drag it around to create different vowel sounds. No actual […]
HPE’s Intelligent Edge in the rollout of 5G
The HPE Telco Shared Lab in Fort Collins, Colorado is where HPE is working on the massive task of deploying 5G at scale. As well as developing technology and contributing hardware to the overall 5G project, the lab is also involved in operator blueprint validation, engineering reference designs and proof of concept trials. They have over […]
NVIDIA Inception programme grew to 7,000 members in 2020
NVIDIA’s inception programme hit a record total of 7,000 members in 2020, up 25% on last year, and most of these new early-stage and seed-stage startups are involved in AI, machine learning and data science for IT services, health care, and media and entertainment. More than 100 companies attained Premier level, which unlocks marketing and […]