NVIDIA Making Science Fiction Real

At the 2021 NVIDIA GTC conference Jensen Huang spoke from his kitchen to say that we need a metaverse (the Omniverse, with attribution to SF author Neil Stephenson), a digital twin of the real world and that NVIDIA is building the tools to make this possible. He spoke about democratizing high performance computing and of course, his talk included cool videos of special effects and showing how the Omniverse can be used to teach robots how to be robots and to design better factories. An important element in the Omniverse is creating ever more realistic models with "digital twins" that can accurately describe the real world and can be used for various optimization and failure analysis applications. Jensen talked about 4 stacks of technology and their applications. These are RTX visual computing platform that is being used to create the Onmiverse; computing and accelerator platforms (DGX, Grace, BlueField and DOCA); the EGX accelerated computing platform applied to Jarvis, Merlin, Maxine, Morpheus and NVIDIA AI; and autonomous vehicle products Hyperion, Atlan and Orlin. NVDIA said that AI model sizes are getting bigger in order to make more accurate models.