Nvidia is a technology company, not a consumer or enterprise company, as emphasized by CEO Jensen Huang.
What does he mean, exactly?
Doesnt Nvidia want consumers to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on the new, expensiveRTX 50-series GPUs?
© Photo: Artur Widak/Anadolu via Getty Images; Art: Gizmodo
Dont they want more companies to buy their AI training chips?
Nvidia is the kind of company with a lot of fingers in a lot of pies.
But how does a company like Nvidia fund allthose epic AI experiments?
Nvidia’s Digits brick is barely the size of a typical mini-PC. © Photo: Kyle Barr / Gizmodo
But Amazon and other companies are trying to create alternatives to cut out Nvidias monopoly.
What should happen if competition cuts the spree short?
Were going to respond to customers wherever they are, Huang said.
© Photo: Kyle Barr / Gizmodo
Part of that is helping companies build agentic AI, AKA multiple AI models able to complete complex tasks.
That includes several AI toolkits made to throw a bone to businesses.
Who will use it?
Nvidiamade sure you knewabout the RTX 5090s 3,352 TOPS of AI performance.
Then, Huangs company dropped details on several software initiativesboth gaming and non-gaming related.
None of his declarations were more confusing than its world foundation AI models.
You know, the things that children know.
They understand the physical world in a way that language models didnt know.
RTX and Project Digits drew hollers and shouts from the crowd.
Spending half his time talking about his world foundation model, the audience didnt seem nearly as enthused.
It was good before the advent of generative AI.
Now, Nvidia promises Transformer models will further enhance upscaling and ray reconstruction.
That is a boon for those who can afford the new RTX 50-series.
The RTX 5090 tops off at $2,000.
The gamers who would most benefit from frame gen are those who may only afford a lower-end GPU.
Nvidia showed offoddball AI NPCs,in-game chatbots,AI nurses, and anaudio generatorlast year.
Perhaps, some of these will stick.
In the cases where Nvidia hopes AI replaces nurses or audio engineers, we hope that doesnt happen.
Huang considers Nvidia a small company with 32,000 worldwide employees.
Because of its market position, it holds an outsized influence on the tech industry.
News from the future, delivered to your present.
