AI Announcements at NVIDIA's GTC DC Event 2019

Twice a year, NVIDIA, a Silicon Valley-based technology company that pioneered and popularized the use of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), runs a conference called the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) aimed to showcase advancements in the use of processing technology for emerging technology use cases. It should come as no surprise that recent GTC events have focused on AI, given how compute-intensive machine learning training and inference can be. Each year, it seems that the GTC events have become more and more about AI only, to the virtual exclusion of other areas where GPUs are being applied. That being said, there were a number of interesting announcements that came out of the NVIDIA GTC 2019 event that are of interest beyond those that follow the company's own products and solutions. One of the most interesting announcements was not about a new product or feature.