"Today that mega-system, called Selene, has its own robot attendant and is driving AI forward in automotive, healthcare and natural-language processing." Assembling supercomputers take years to build. It requires many service personnel working round the clock for many months to deliver a commission. But, beating all odds, NVIDIA claims to have built its supercomputer within three weeks. Not only did NVIDIA assemble a mammoth of a computer in a short time but also have broken records in the recently conducted MLPerf benchmark tests.

A lot of companies had big plans for artificial intelligence (AI) last year. In 2020, however, those ambitions have gotten a little bit smaller. In an annual survey my company conducts, only 4% of business and technology executives who work with AI said that they planned to roll it out across their organizations in 2020. A year ago, 20% had said the same. That's a big drop, but I can't say that I'm surprised.