NVIDIA held its AI Day in Singapore on Sept. 22-23 with training sessions and expert talks on AI and high-performance computing. The company and its partners showcased AI projects from across Southeast Asia.
NVIDIA has introduced DSX Ready, a program that qualifies power and cooling products for AI data centers. It is meant to help builders choose equipment that fits the overall design of their facility amid power, water and grid constraints.
At its Fully Connected event in San Francisco, CoreWeave announced it is bringing NVIDIA’s next-generation infrastructure into production. The two companies have worked together on AI cloud infrastructure for nearly a decade.
NVIDIA estimates that each megawatt of AI data center capacity costs about $60 million to build. The company sets out the factors it says determine the return on such investments, starting with earning capacity.
GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast, which runs on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, is now available in the OpenAI API and to eligible ChatGPT Work and Codex users. It generates tokens up to 8 times faster than Astra’s standard mode.
NVIDIA will release a version of its DGX Spark desktop AI computer with 64GB of unified memory this month, built by partners including Acer. The company links it to open models becoming small enough to run locally.