Then There Were Six: AI Startups Get Winnowed Down Ahead of NVIDIA's Inception Finals at GTC The Official NVIDIA Blog

Take smart people, add the most disruptive new technology of our time, and inject money. Welcome to NVIDIA's AI startup challenge. Of the 12 semi-finalists who gave their pitches -- live before an audience of investors and press at NVIDIA's Silicon Valley campus -- six were selected to go on to the finals, to be held on March 27 at GTC, our annual GPU developers conference. There, the two finalists in three categories -- autonomous systems, enterprise and healthcare -- will get winnowed down to a single winner, who will get $330,000. Kicking off the event NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang said: ""AI is enjoying a revolution: software that writes software, machines that learn by themselves, solving problems that human software engineers had no possibility of addressing until now have finally hit the scene.