Nvidia’s accelerated computing isn’t just efficient. It’s critical to the next wave of industrial, scientific and healthcare transformations.
This is the word from Bob Pette, Nvidia’s vice-president and GM of enterprise platforms, presenting the keynote address at the Nvidia AI Summit in Washington, DC.
“We are in the dawn of a new industrial revolution,” says Pette. “I’m just here to tell you that we’re designing our systems with not just performance in mind, but with energy efficiency in mind.”
Nvidia’s Blackwell platform has achieved groundbreaking energy efficiency in AI computing, reducing energy consumption by up to 2 000x over the past decade for training models like GPT-4.
Nvidia accelerated computing is cutting energy use for token generation – the output from AI models – by 100 000x, underscoring the value of accelerated computing for sustainability amid the rapid adoption of AI worldwide.
“These AI factories produce product. Those products are tokens, tokens are intelligence, and Intelligence is money,” Pette said. That’s what “will revolutionise every industry on this planet”
Nvidia’s CUDA libraries, which have been fundamental in enabling breakthroughs across industries, now power over 4 000 accelerated applications, Pette explains.
“CUDA enables acceleratiom … It also turns out to be one of the most impressive ways to reduce energy consumption,” he adds.
These libraries are central to the company’s energy-efficient AI innovations driving significant performance gains while minimising power consumption.
Pette details how Nvidia’s AI software helps organisations deploy AI solutions quickly and efficiently, enabling businesses to innovate faster and solve complex problems across sectors.
He adds that the concept of agentic AI goes beyond traditional AI by enabling intelligent agents to perceive, reason and act autonomously.
Agentic AI is capable of ”reasoning, of learning, and taking action”, Pette says. “It’s transforming industries like manufacturing, customer service, and healthcare.”
These AI agents are transforming industries by automating complex tasks and accelerating innovation in sectors like manufacturing, customer service and healthcare.
He also describes how AI agents empower businesses to drive innovation in healthcare, manufacturing, scientific research and climate modeling. With agentic AI, “you can do in minutes what used to take days.”
Nvidia, in collaboration with its partners, is tackling some of the world’s greatest challenges, including improving diagnostics and healthcare delivery, advancing climate modeling efforts and even helping find signs of life beyond our planet.
The company is collaborating with SETI to conduct real-time AI searches for fast radio bursts from distant galaxies, helping continue the exploration of space, Pette says.
He emphasises that Nvidia is unlocking a $10-trillion opportunity in healthcare. Through AI, Nvidia is accelerating innovations in diagnostics, drug discovery and medical imaging, helping transform patient care worldwide.
Pette points out that a new Nvidia NIM Agent Blueprint supports cybersecurity advancements, enabling industries to safeguard critical infrastructure with AI-driven solutions.
In cybersecurity, Pette highlights the Nvidia NIM Agent Blueprint, a powerful tool enabling organizations to safeguard critical infrastructure through real-time threat detection and analysis.
This blueprint reduces threat response times from days to seconds, representing a significant leap forward in protecting industries.
“Agentic systems can access tools and reason through full lines of thought to provide instant one-click assessments,” Pette says. “This boosts productivity by allowing security analysts to focus on the most critical tasks while AI handles the heavy lifting of analysis, delivering fast and actionable insights.
Nvidia’s accelerated computing solutions are advancing climate research by enabling more accurate and faster climate modeling. This technology is helping scientists tackle some of the most urgent environmental challenges, from monitoring global temperatures to predicting natural disasters.
Pette describes how the Nvidia Earth 2 platform enables climate experts to import data from multiple sources, fusing them together for analysis using Nvidia Omniverse. “Nvidia Earth 2 brings together the power of simulation AI and visualisation to empower the climate, tech ecosystem,” Pette says.