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Unleash Stunning 3D Creations with LLaMa-Mesh

NVIDIA's latest paper introduces LLaMA-Mesh, allowing 3D mesh generation using natural language, without adding new tokens. The paper explains how LLMs like GPT4o convert text to obj files, with vertex quantization for...

Discover Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large on Amazon SageMaker!

Stability AI releases Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, offering powerful text-to-image capabilities. With 8.1 billion parameters, the model enables high-quality image generation for various industries, enhancing creativity and...

AI-Powered Haunted Sanctuary: A Spooky Spectacle

Sabour Amirazodi, a creator at NVIDIA, used AI and NVIDIA Studio to enhance his Halloween installation with digital portraits of his family using ComfyUI, Adobe Firefly, and Photoshop. The AI workflows allowed for faster creation and customization, showcasing the power of NVIDIA RTX GPUs in creative...

Unlocking the Power of LDA

Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) helps identify critical data features in large datasets, distinguishing important features from less relevant ones. LDA is a supervised method that reduces dimensionality and explains failure patterns, making it ideal for industrial data...

Unveiling the Secrets of Neural Networks

Exploring Neural Networks in Hydrometeorology: A unique approach to optimizing error surfaces in 3D using PyTorch. Learn how to visualize and interactively illustrate the steps of Stochastic Gradient Descent with plotly Python...

Lincoln Lab Technologies Shine with 2024 R&D 100 Awards

MIT Lincoln Laboratory's 2024 R&D 100 Awards recognize 15 innovative technologies, including AI-assisted brain mapping and blast exposure monitoring. These technologies showcase the lab's diverse capabilities and real-world impact, spanning from preventing human harm to advancing 3D printing and integrated...

Unveiling Crystalline Structures with AI

MIT chemists developed Crystalyze, an AI model, to determine structures of powdered crystals, aiding in material characterization for various applications. The model, trained on data from the Materials Project, could solve structures of thousands of materials with unsolved X-ray diffraction...

Roblox's New AI Tool: Transforming Text into 3D Game Worlds

Roblox plans to launch an open source generative AI tool for creating 3D environments with text prompts, potentially simplifying game creation. The tool, based on a "3D foundational model," allows users to input prompts like "create a race track" and "make the scenery a desert" to generate corresponding...

Unleashing Custom AI: The Power of NVIDIA Edify

NVIDIA's AI Foundry & Edify empower creators to generate images, videos, and 3D assets quickly and efficiently. Getty Images uses Edify to train generative AI models on licensed content, enabling safe and customizable image...

Teen Innovator Creates Robot Guide Dogs with NVIDIA Jetson

High school student Selin Alara Ornek uses NVIDIA Jetson for edge AI to create robot guide dogs for visually impaired, aiming to prevent bullying and aid health monitoring with real-time notification capabilities. Ornek, a self-taught robotics developer from Istanbul, is recognized globally for her innovative projects and plans to deploy IC4U in smart cities using next-gen platforms like Jetson...

Supercharging AI with NVIDIA's RTX-Powered Tools

NVIDIA showcases latest AI technologies at SIGGRAPH, including interactive digital human "James" powered by NVIDIA ACE. RTX GPUs drive immersive experiences and AI advancements for creators with enhanced content-creation tools like RTX Video...

Revolutionizing Digital Environments with NVIDIA NIM Microservices

NVIDIA unveils generative physical AI advancements at SIGGRAPH, including NIM microservices for building interactive visual AI agents and training physical machines. The technology transforms industries like manufacturing and healthcare, enabling robots and automation to navigate their surroundings more...

Democratizing Industrial Digital Twins with SyncTwin

SyncTwin GmbH leverages NVIDIA Omniverse and cuOpt to create digital twins for factories, optimizing production and enhancing collaboration. OpenUSD framework enables seamless integration of diverse manufacturing data, revolutionizing factory planning and...

Accelerating Generative AI with Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth

Krikey AI leverages Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth to efficiently label vast amounts of data for their innovative 3D animation platform, democratizing AI animation creation. This partnership enables Krikey AI to quickly obtain high-quality labels tailored to their needs, accelerating the development of their text-to-animation...

Shadow Modeling Unveils Hidden Objects in 3D Scenes

MIT and Meta researchers develop PlatoNeRF, a computer vision technique using shadows and machine learning to create accurate 3D models of scenes, improving autonomous vehicles and AR/VR efficiency. Combining lidar and AI, PlatoNeRF offers new opportunities for reconstructions and will be presented at the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern...

Revolutionary RTX-Powered AI Unveiled at COMPUTEX

NVIDIA introduces new RTX technology integrations at COMPUTEX 2024, including AI laptops and RTX Video enhancements for popular creative apps like DaVinci Resolve. RTX Video features RTX Video Super Resolution and RTX Video HDR to enhance video quality up to 4K, with DaVinci Resolve being one of the first apps to integrate the...

Revolutionizing Digitalization with OpenUSD and Generative AI

SoftServe and Continental collaborate on Industrial Co-Pilot, using OpenUSD and NVIDIA Omniverse to enhance maintenance workflows and increase productivity. The partnership integrates generative AI and 3D visualization, reducing maintenance effort by 10% and fostering cross-discipline collaboration for innovative industrial...

Boosted Performance: NVIDIA RTX AI PCs Unleashed!

NVIDIA and Microsoft collaborate to optimize AI performance on RTX PCs, enhancing capabilities for gamers, creators, and developers. New features like DLSS, ACE, and Copilot+ on RTX GPUs empower users with increased performance and AI-driven tools for gaming, content creation, and...

RTX-Accelerated Editing: AI Tools in DaVinci Resolve

AI tools accelerated by NVIDIA RTX enhance video editing in DaVinci Resolve 19, streamlining workflows with new AI features. Resolve's AI-powered effects, including IntelliTrack AI point tracker and UltraNR for noise reduction, are optimized for NVIDIA RTX PCs, boosting performance by...

Tailored Languages for Visual AI Efficiency

MIT's Jonathan Ragan-Kelley pioneers efficient programming languages for complex hardware, transforming photo editing and AI applications. His work focuses on optimizing programs for specialized computing units, unlocking maximum computational performance and...

Deep Learning Unveils Earth's Atmospheric Boundary

Discover how Company X revolutionized the tech industry with their groundbreaking AI technology, leading to a 50% increase in productivity. Learn how their innovative approach is reshaping the future of automation and setting new industry...

Exploring 3D Grid Neighborhoods

Discover how 2D grid-based algorithms can be applied in the 3D world for navigation and visibility in video games, robotics, and architectural design. Explore the five 3D grid neighborhoods for solving AI problems like pathfinding and visibility...

Streamlining Protein Language Model Training with Amazon SageMaker

Article highlights: Fine-tuning protein language model on Amazon SageMaker for subcellular localization prediction. Proteins as text strings, key role in drug development. pLMs for designing novel proteins, challenges with model size and training cost. Fine-tuning for task-specific adaptation and...

Unleashing Creativity: AI and RTX Transform Artistry with Adobe

Adobe is teaming up with NVIDIA to bring generative AI to creators through Adobe Firefly, while also introducing new features like the AI-powered Enhance Speech tool in Adobe Premiere Pro. Esteban Toro, an artist featured in the NVIDIA Studio, uses AI-powered features in Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom to create emotionally moving Cinematic...

The AI Revolution: Super Bowl's Best and Wackiest Commercials

Several companies showcased AI-related ads at Super Bowl LVIII, including Microsoft, which highlighted its AI assistant, Copilot, in a commercial emphasizing its ability to solve various problems and empower individuals. The ad features defiant text overlaid on scenes of people overcoming obstacles, with Copilot generating solutions like creating storyboard images and writing...

Revolutionizing Sustainable Innovation: Atacama Biomaterials' Journey

Atacama Biomaterials, a startup combining architecture, machine learning, and chemical engineering, develops eco-friendly materials with multiple applications. Their technology allows for the creation of data and material libraries using AI and ML, producing regionally sourced, compostable plastics and...

The Reign of ResNet: A New Era with Vision Transformers

Computer vision has evolved from small pixelated images to generating high-resolution images from descriptions, with smaller models improving performance in areas like smartphone photography and autonomous vehicles. The ResNet model has dominated computer vision for nearly eight years, but challengers like Vision Transformer (ViT) are emerging, showing state-of-the-art performance in computer...

Accelerating Toward a Brighter Future: Blendeered's NVIDIA-Themed New Year's City

Pedro Soares, aka Blendeered, showcases his stunning NVIDIA-themed New Year's celebration animation, highlighting the power of technological innovation and NVIDIA Studio's impact on content creation. Using Blender and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 GPU, Blendeered creates a futuristic city scene with real-time rendering, OptiX ray tracing, and AI-powered tools like NVIDIA...

The Power of Gaussian Splatting: Revolutionizing 3D Representations

Gaussian splatting is a fast and interpretable method for representing 3D scenes without neural networks, gaining popularity in a world obsessed with AI models. It uses 3D points with unique parameters to closely match renders to known dataset images, offering a refreshing alternative to complex and opaque methods like...

The Rise of Gaussian Splatting: Revolutionizing the Avatar Space

The recent surge in Gaussian Splatting papers, including GaussianAvatars and MonoGaussianAvatar, is revolutionizing the field of digital humans. Gaussian splatting offers visually stunning quality, high frame rates, and easy editability, making it a powerful method for representing 3D...

Revolutionizing Accessibility: SiBORG Lab's Innovative Approach with OpenUSD and NVIDIA Omniverse

Mathew Schwartz, an assistant professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, is using NVIDIA Omniverse and OpenUSD to help designers address the challenge of accessibility in building design. Schwartz's team developed open-source code that generates a complex accessibility graph, providing feedback on human movement and energy expenditure. With Omniverse, designers can visualize the graph...

NANA: Moonshine Studio's AI Receptionist Revolutionizes Guest Greetings

Moonshine Studio's 3D artist, Eric Chiang, creates an AI-powered virtual assistant named NANA using GPU-accelerated features and a GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card. NVIDIA Studio Drivers now support Reallusion iClone AccuFACE plugin and other enhancements, while the #WinterArtChallenge invites artists to share their winter-themed creations for a chance to be...

From Words to Reality: The Rise of Text-to-CAD Generation

The rise of AI-powered text-to-image generation has resulted in a flood of low-quality images, causing skepticism and misdirection. However, a new phenomenon of AI-powered text-to-CAD generation has emerged, with major players like Autodesk, Google, OpenAI, and NVIDIA leading the...