Nvidia claims its deep learning platform is 10 times faster than 6 months ago

Nvidia launched hardware and software improvements to its deep learning computing platform that deliver a 10 times performance boost on deep learning workloads compared with the previous generation six months ago. In the past five years, programmers have made huge advances in AI, first by training deep learning neural networks based on existing data. This allows a neural network to recognize an image of a cat, for instance. The second step is inferencing, or applying the learning capability to new data that has never been seen before, like spotting a cat in a picture that the neural network has never been shown. At the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) event in San Jose, California, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang didn't announce a new graphics processing unit (GPU).