Nvidia launches -Washington AI Summit- and will be held in Japan and India

Nvidia, the dominant player in the AI chip market in the United States, has been actively organizing a series of AI summits in various locations, including the U.S., Japan, and India. These events not only demonstrate how Nvidia’s AI technology can address urgent challenges related to climate change and healthcare but also emphasize their AI hardware and software offerings. This aligns with CEO Jensen Huang’s concept of “sovereign AI.”

On October 8, Nvidia kicked off a three-day “Washington AI Summit” in Washington, D.C., where Bob Pette, Vice President of Enterprise Platforms, shared insights on how the company’s customized AI inference services are supporting both public and private sectors.

During the summit, key announcements included partnerships with leading U.S. tech companies to create tailored AI applications. Nvidia unveiled its latest Nvidia Inference Microservices (NIM) blueprint, along with Nvidia NeMo and NIM microservices, aimed at aiding global industries in their transformation journeys. Major consulting firms like Accenture, Deloitte, Quantiphi, and SoftServe are starting to integrate the NIM agent blueprint and Nvidia NeMo to craft bespoke generative AI agents and AI assistants, or “copilots,” for clients in sectors including healthcare, manufacturing, telecommunications, financial services, and retail.

In an intriguing development, researchers at the SETI Institute are leveraging Nvidia’s technology to utilize AI for the real-time search of fast radio bursts (FRBs), potentially seeking signals of life from distant regions. Nvidia also reported that the U.S. healthcare system is progressively adopting digital health agents, with AI technology being deployed across research labs and clinical environments.

The company claims its AI solutions can assist healthcare systems globally in numerous ways, from developing customer service robots to expediting drug discovery processes.

Furthermore, Nvidia highlighted the energy efficiency of its new Blackwell chip. Pette emphasized that using Blackwell to power OpenAI’s GPT-4 software would only require 3 megawatts (MW) of electricity, a stark contrast to the 5,500 MW needed a decade ago.

The Washington AI Summit marks the initial stop in Nvidia’s worldwide tour to showcase its AI capabilities and foster connections with governments and businesses around the globe. More events are lined up for late October in Mumbai, India, followed by another in November in Tokyo, Japan.

Both India and Japan are ramping up their domestic AI initiatives, making them crucial markets for Nvidia. Japan has rolled out a series of investment plans and supportive policies to encourage AI innovation, while India approved a substantial investment of 103 billion rupees (approximately $1.25 billion) back in March to enhance computational infrastructure and develop various large language models.