Nvidia has not too long ago centered extra on its help for AI purposes, however it nonetheless had loads of information from CEO Jensen Huang in a keynote tackle through the annual laptop graphics convention, SIGGRAPH.

Huang had a number of AI bulletins to make, together with the discharge of AI Workbench, a brand new PC utility enterprises can use to assist create AI fashions and deploy them to their knowledge facilities or to the cloud. There was additionally an replace to Nvidia AI Enterprise, model 4.0, including help for the corporate’s cloud-native NeMo framework to construct giant language fashions (LLMs), in addition to a brand new software to handle a number of cases of Triton inference server to scale AI methods extra simply.

Plus, Nvidia is working with Hugging Face, supplier of a platform for coaching and tuning generative AI fashions, to speed up mannequin coaching. Hugging Face will add Nvidia DGX Cloud as one of many cloud-based locations to which enterprises can ship their coaching workloads.

As befits a convention about laptop graphics, although, a lot of the information revolved round Nvidia Omniverse, the corporate’s platform for real-time 3D graphics collaboration. That is used throughout enterprises, from engineering, simulating prototypes, or arranging manufacturing traces, to advertising and marketing, utilizing CAD information to render photorealistic photographs, and video for packaging or promoting.

Making USD the frequent foreign money

Omniverse is constructed round Common Scene Description, a framework for exchanging 3D graphics knowledge developed by Pixar and later launched as an open-source mission, OpenUSD. Regardless of its identify, it’s not fairly common, with totally different distributors implementing it in several methods. That prompted Nvidia to crew up with Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and Pixar to type the Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD) initially of August to standardize the specification and promote USD interoperability.

Nvidia hopes this may make USD—and by extension, its USD-related merchandise—extra extensively adopted.