GTC Preview & NVIDIA AI Research Recap

Every March US chip giant NVIDIA hosts its GPU Technology Conference in Santa Clara, rolling out new chip designs and products while showcasing its latest tech and AI breakthroughs. GTC 2019 runs next Monday through Thursday (March 18–21), and while we can only speculate what surprises NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang might have in store for us, we can get some sense of where the company is headed by looking at what it's been up to for the last 12 months. NVIDIA is steadily expanding its foothold in artificial intelligence and in 2018 contributed numerous noteworthy research results to the machine learning community, including StyleGAN, video-to-video translation, WaveGlow, and more. The company's AI-related efforts make sense, as NVIDIA is a major supplier of graphics cards to AI researchers and developers. Because GPUs remain the dominant option for training machine learning models, NVIDIA sales will obviously benefit from AI development and deployment.