H100, Nvidia's latest GPU optimised to handle large artificial intelligence models used to create text, computer code, images, video or audio. Photo: Nvidia handout via Reuters.
Nvidia’s chief technology officer Michael Kagan says the chipmaker preferred to see its powerful processors being used on the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT rather than mining cryptocurrencies, despite selling huge quantities to the crypto sector, according to a report by The Guardian, which quoted Kagan saying he saw limited value in crypto “because it doesn’t do anything useful for society” or humanity – unlike AI.
Nvidia’s AI-focused processors work significantly faster on the “simple yet powerful processors adopted by gamers”, according to the report, which quoted Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang as saying the ‘generative artificial intelligence’ that his firm powers would “reinvent nearly every industry”.
Read the full report: The Guardian.
CATL showed off the lithium iron phosphate (LFP) Shenxing Plus battery on the first media…
The US Secretary of State is in Shanghai as the two superpowers continue to defrost…
China says its fully homegrown brain-computer interface was tested on a monkey, allowing it to…
After Biden's swift presidential endorsement, attention is now turning to whether TikTok can win a…
Washington has been lobbying the Dutch to prevent ASML from servicing some of the billions of euros…
Zap Energy claims its approach would be capable of delivering limitless clean power at a…