NVIDIA opened the door for enterprises worldwide to develop and deploy large language models (LLM) by enabling them to build their own domain-specific chatbots, personal assistants and other AI applications that understand language with unprecedented levels of subtlety and nuance. The company unveiled the NVIDIA NeMo Megatron framework for training language models with trillions of parameters, the Megatron 530B customizable LLM that can be trained for new domains and languages, and NVIDIA Triton Inference Server with multi-GPU, multinode distributed inference functionality. Combined with NVIDIA DGX systems, these tools provide a production-ready, enterprise-grade solution to simplify the development and deployment of large language models. "Large language models have proven to be flexible and capable, able to answer deep domain questions, translate languages, comprehend and summarize documents, write stories and compute programs, all without specialized training or supervision," said Bryan Catanzaro, vice president of Applied Deep Learning Research at NVIDIA. "Building large language models for new languages and domains is likely the largest supercomputing application yet, and now these capabilities are within reach for the world's enterprises."

The 2021 ACM SIGAI Industry Award for Excellence in Artificial Intelligence is granted to DrAidTM - the AI-powered Assistant product for Radiologists developed by VinBrain (a subsidiary of Vingroup in Vietnam). This is one of the world's top awards, and only one AI product is selected as the winner each year. The award will be presented at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2021 from August 19-26, 2021 in Canada. In 2019, the award was granted to Microsoft Corporation. The ACM SIGAI Industry Award for Excellence in Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the world's top awards in the field of AI which is given annually to individuals or teams who have transferred original advanced academic research into AI applications.