Tesla Partner Nvidia Speeds To Record High On 'Superhuman' AI

Nvidia's (NVDA) AI technology with Facebook (FB), Alphabet (GOOGL) and Microsoft (MSFT) is powering "superhuman" levels of inference, or artificial intelligence, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said Thursday, after the Tesla Motors (TSLA) partner blasted Q1 views on record deep-learning sales. "The truth is that nobody really knows how big this deep-learning market is going to be," Huang said on the company's earnings conference call. He referred specifically to gains that customer Microsoft was making with AI and deep learning. "The work that recently was done at Microsoft Research, they've achieved superhuman levels of inferencing … of image recognition and voice recognition that's really kind of hard to imagine," he said, "and these networks are now huge." In midday trading on the stock market today, Nvidia stock was up more than 14% and hit an all-time high at 40.30.