With the AI boom in full throttle, there has been no trade show in recent memory that I can recall more eagerly anticipated than Nvidia Corp.’s GTC 2024. After five years of being virtual, the event returned to an in-person format, adding to the excitement.
As Nvidia Corp.‘s annual developer conference GTC kicked off this week in San Jose, the company made its usual flurry of product announcements, the highlight of which was the long-awaited Blackwell platform. One might look at Blackwell as a graphics processing unit, but in reality, it’s more than that, hence the “platform” descriptor.
Nvidia Corp. kicks off its annual GPU Technology Conference Monday in San Jose. After five years of being virtual, the nearly weeklong event returns to an in-person format, and the timing could not be better. This is arguably the most important GTC in history. What started as a vendor-specific show attended by gamers and data scientists exploded into the world’s largest artificial intelligence-centric industry event.
Many organizations need help effectively employing artificial intelligence because of technical complexities, poor data quality and a lack of skills or resources. To help organizations overcome these challenges, tech solutions provider C1, formerly ConvergeOne, today launched a new generative AI-powered tool called C1 Elly. The tool allows companies to make better use of their data, including previously inaccessible data locked in different business systems.
HP Inc.’s Amplify partner conference, held in Las Vegas March 5-7 under the “Future Ready – United We Win” theme, focused on converging hybrid systems and GenAI. Several announcements came out of the three days in Sin City, including a broad portfolio of AI PCs, role-based artificial intelligence training and certification and AI data science for channel partners that use role-based AI training and certification program, a look at the results of a new AI-related worker survey, a new Color LaserJet and new services and software.