The GTC 2017 event highlighted the rapid advancement of AI and deep learning, featuring Nvidia's new Volta GPU architecture and the introduction of DGX systems, which are purpose-built AI supercomputers. Key collaborations were announced with major companies like Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Toyota to enhance AI capabilities across various sectors. The event emphasized that the advancements in AI technology are expected to accelerate breakthroughs in numerous industries, including autonomous vehicles and smart cities.

1. GTC 2017
THE AI REVOLUTION

2. THE AI REVOLUTION SWEEPING THE GLOBE JUST
GOT FASTER.

3. GTC, THE LARGEST AND MOST IMPORTANT EVENT OF THE
YEAR FOR GPU DEVELOPERS, SHOWCASES VITAL WORK
AND OFFERS TRAINING IN AI AND DEEP LEARNING.

4. 1. NVIDIA VOLTA – The New GPU Architecture
2. DGX Systems – The World’s First Purpose-Built AI Supercomputers
3. NVIDIA GPU Cloud For Deep Learning Everywhere
4. Metropolis For Smart Cities
5. Isaac Ushering In A New Era of Robotics
6. Toyota Partnership for Self-Driving Cars
THE TOP HIGHLIGHTS OF GTC 2017

5. “NVIDIA Volta™ is the new driving force
behind artificial intelligence. Volta will
fuel breakthroughs in every industry.
Humanity’s moonshots like eradicating
cancer, intelligent customer experiences,
and self-driving vehicles are within reach
of this next era of AI.”
NVIDIA VOLTA Is The New
GPU Architecture
READ MOREFor more information on VOLTA …
“All the evidence I've seen is that people want
infinite amounts of deep learning computing.”
-Jonah Alben, SVP of Engineering, NVIDIA (Forbes)

6. ECOSYSTEM SUPPORT FOR VOLTA
“… AWS is home to some of today's most innovative and
creative AI applications, and we look forward to
helping customers continue to build incredible new
applications with the next generation of our general-
purpose GPU instance family when Volta becomes
available later in the year."
- Matt Garman, vice president of Compute
Services, Amazon Web Services
"NVIDIA and Facebook have been great partners and we are
excited about the contributions NVIDIA has made to
Facebook's Caffe2 and PyTorch. We look forward to the AI
advances NVIDIA's new high-performing Volta graphics
architecture will enable.“
- Mike Schroepfer, chief technology officer,
Facebook
“NVIDIA's GPUs deliver significant performance boosts for Google Cloud Platform customers. GPUs are an important
part of our infrastructure, offering Google and our enterprise customers extra computational power for machine
learning or high performance computing and data analysis. Volta's performance improvements will make GPUs even
more powerful and we plan to offer Volta GPUs on GCP."
- Brad Calder, vice president of Engineering for Google Cloud Platform, Google

7. ECOSYSTEM SUPPORT FOR VOLTA
"Microsoft and NVIDIA have partnered for years on AI
technologies, including Microsoft Azure N-series,
Project Olympus and Cognitive Toolkit. The new Volta
architecture will unlock extraordinary new capabilities
for Microsoft customers."
-Harry Shum, executive vice president of
Microsoft AI and Research Group, Microsoft
"A large variety of our products, including voice technology
in wechat, photo/video technology in QQ and Qzone, and
the deep learning platform based on Tencent Cloud, already
rely on AI. We believe Volta will provide unprecedented
computing power for our AI developers, and we're excited
to open up those capabilities soon from Tencent Cloud to
more clients."
-Dowson Tong, senior executive vice president,
Tencent
"Oak Ridge National Laboratory will begin assembling our next-generation leadership computing system, Summit, this
summer. Summit is powered by Volta GPUs and will be the top supercomputer in the U.S. for scientific discovery when
completed in 2018. It will keep the U.S. at the forefront of scientific research and help the Department of Energy
address complex challenges with computational science and AI-assisted discovery."
-Jeff Nichols, associate laboratory director of the Computing and Computational Sciences
Directorate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

8. “Inspired by the demands of deep learning
and analytics, NVIDIA DGX™ Systems are
built on the new, revolutionary NVIDIA
Volta™ GPU platform. NVIDIA DGX Systems
are designed to give data scientists the
most powerful tools for AI exploration—
tools that go from your desk to the data
center to the cloud.”
DGX Systems For Faster AI
Innovation And Insight
“It comes out of the box, plug it in and go to work.”
-Jensen Huang, CEO, NVIDIA (GTC 2017 Keynote)
READ MOREFor more information on DGX Systems …

9. “NVIDIA GPU Cloud (NGC) is a GPU-
accelerated platform that runs
everywhere. Data scientists and
researchers can now rapidly build, train,
and deploy neural network models to
address some of the most complicated AI
challenges.”
NVIDIA GPU Cloud For Deep
Learning Everywhere
“We’re designing a cloud platform that will unleash
AI developers, so they can build a smarter world.”
- Jim McHugh, VP and GM, NVIDIA (CBROnline)
For more information on NGC … READ MORE

10. “NVIDIA Metropolis is the foundation of the
AI City—an edge-to-cloud platform that
can turn anonymized video into valuable
insights. Driven by powerful technologies
like NVIDIA® Jetson™ TX2 at the edge and
NVIDIA Tesla® in the data center, it
delivers intelligent video analytics for a
wide range of applications.”
Metropolis Platform For
Smarter Cities
READ MOREFor the full article from VentureBeat…
“With the fast-paced environment of a city, there
are a near infinite number of activities taking
place.”
- Mahesh Saptharis, CTO, Avigilon, (BizJournal)

11. “NVIDIA Isaac gives you the power to take
training virtual with a suite of
development tools for high-fidelity
simulation and advanced real-time
rendering. It’s an AI-based software
platform that lets developers train their
virtual robot using detailed and highly
realistic test scenarios.”
Isaac Ushering In A New Era
Of Robotics
“Robots based on artificial intelligence hold
enormous promise, but building and training them
has posed significant challenges.”
- Jensen Huang, CEO, NVIDIA (VentureBeat)
For more information on Isaac … READ MORE

12. “Toyota has tapped NVIDIA to help it bring
self-driving tech to people — and roads —
in just a few years. The automaker will
use NVIDIA’s Drive PX supercomputer, a
platform with a robust new processor
called Xavier, to power the autonomous
driving systems inside its future cars.”
Toyota For Self-Driving Cars
"Through this collaboration, we intend to accelerate
the development of autonomous driving systems
that are even more safe and capable."
- Ken Koibuchi, Executive GM, Toyota (Press Release)
For the full article from The Verge … READ MORE

13. LEARN MORE ABOUT THE ANNOUNCEMENTS AT GTC17
POWERING THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BOOM
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