NVIDIA Becomes a Shareholder in DFKI AI Research Center in Germany - insideHPC

Today NVIDIA announced that the company has become a shareholder in DFKI, one of world's largest research centers dedicated to AI. The commitment is a further step in the long-standing successful cooperation between NVIDIA, the leader in accelerated computing, AI and high performance computing, and DFKI in the area of machine learning and deep learning. The partnership between DFKI and NVIDIA combines our sophisticated models and procedures with their high-performance platforms designed specifically for AI," said Professor Dr. Andreas Dengel, site head of DFKI Kaiserslautern and scientific director for the research department of smart data and knowledge services. "Joining as a shareholder is a further building block of our successful cooperation and opens up new perspectives for application-oriented neural network research." By combining DFKI technologies with NVIDIA's leading AI platforms, DFKI researchers and scientists have achieved remarkable results in the application, explainability and optimization of neural networks and deep learning methods in recent years. NVIDIA and DFKI are working together to provide powerful tools so that scientists can solve the most complex AI challenges," said Ian Buck, vice president and general manager of Accelerated Computing at NVIDIA.