Tafi just announced it is developing a text-to-3D character engine capable of exporting production-ready assets straight into Unreal, Unity, Blender, and NVIDIA Omniverse. Trained on its massive Genesis character dataset, the platform also includes a built-in attribution and monetization model to pay participating artists.
NVIDIA Research just revealed Neuralangelo, an AI model that turns standard 2D video clips into high-fidelity 3D assets. Borrowing instant neural graphics primitives from Instant NeRF, it reconstructs tricky textures like roof tiles and marble with remarkable detail. The breakthrough makes building virtual environments far easier for game developers and robotics teams, and the code is already live on GitHub.
Nvidia just briefly joined the elite $1 trillion market cap club on Tuesday before paring back gains to close at $990 billion. Fueled by an insatiable demand for generative AI chips behind products like ChatGPT, the company previously projected a massive $11 billion in Q2 sales, beating Wall Street estimates by 50%.
Nvidia just delivered what Wall Street calls 'guidance for the ages,' projecting second-quarter revenue of $11B against analyst expectations of $7.2B. The chip giant's shares exploded 27%, adding over $200B in market value in a single day. CEO Jensen Huang noted that massive demand for generative AI chips is driving a decade-long transition to accelerated computing across global data centers.
Microsoft is reportedly teaming up with AMD to boost the AI capabilities of AMD GPUs, offering engineering resources to help break Nvidia’s near-monopoly on hardware. A more competitive hardware market could dramatically slash server costs for running large generative models. Microsoft, however, flatly denied that AMD is involved with its internal Athena AI chip.
Shutterstock is hosting its first-ever virtual Gen AI Showcase on May 17, featuring product demos of its Shutterstock Generate workflow. The agency is bringing in experts from AWS and Nvidia to discuss how AI models impact creative industries and artists' livelihoods.
NVIDIA just open-sourced NeMo Guardrails, a software suite designed to keep LLM-powered applications accurate, safe, and on-topic. It adds topical, safety, and security guardrails to models like ChatGPT, integrating with tools like LangChain and Zapier via just a few lines of code. Why it matters: developers don't need to be ML experts to prevent their chatbots from going rogue.
Microsoft is reportedly developing in-house AI chips codenamed Athena to train LLMs and slash its costly dependence on Nvidia hardware. Some Microsoft and OpenAI employees already have access to test the silicon on GPT-4, with internal rollouts planned as early as next year.
Nvidia has quickly become Wall Street’s favorite vehicle to ride the generative AI wave sparked by ChatGPT. Citigroup estimates the viral chatbot could drive between $3 billion and $11 billion in sales for the chipmaker over the next 12 months as compute demands explode. Why it matters: Nvidia essentially owns the AI hardware market, though analysts caution that demand could cool just like past crypto booms.
Nvidia just rolled out an AI "Eye Contact" feature in Broadcast 1.4 that replaces your eyes with simulated ones pointing straight at the camera. Designed for creators reading off scripts, the tool matches eye color and blinks in real time, though testers noticed occasional unnatural darting. It brings teleprompter-like convenience to anyone with an RTX graphics card.
Nvidia just launched three new retail AI workflows designed to help stores combat shrinkage and theft. Built on its Metropolis microservices, the tools use computer vision to recognize high-theft items like steak and alcohol, track moving products across multiple cameras without biometric data, and analyze foot traffic. Why it matters: With retail theft topping $100 billion, Nvidia is turning security cameras into intelligent, privacy-conscious loss-prevention systems.
Nvidia is reportedly planning to optimize its GeForce graphics drivers using AI to squeeze out better gaming performance. Leaker CapFrameX claims the updates will tune instructions and hardware utilization, delivering an average 10% uplift and up to 30% in select titles. Why it matters: If true, AI-driven driver tuning could give Nvidia GPUs lasting performance gains over time without requiring new silicon.
Nvidia just unveiled RTX Video Super Resolution, bringing AI video upscaling to web browsers starting in February. Users with RTX 30 and 40 series GPUs will be able to upscale 1080p web videos to 4K inside Chrome and Edge. Why it matters: It sharpens blurry online streams into crisp 4K footage, though RTX 20 series cards and Firefox are left out for now.
Nvidia just opened early access for Omniverse Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE), a suite of cloud-native AI microservices designed to build interactive digital humans at scale. It lets developers feed audio into Audio2Face to generate real-time facial animation and hook into Riva TTS for speech across engines like Unreal and Ready Player Me. It effectively offloads complex avatar pipelines to the cloud.
Nvidia just rolled out a major update to its Isaac Sim robotics platform. The tool can now simulate human workers walking around warehouses and stacking boxes, giving robot AI a safe sandbox to practice avoiding collisions before hitting real factory floors. The release also brings RTX-simulated LiDAR alongside a new Isaac ORBIT tool for robotic arm manipulation.
Nvidia just updated its Omniverse simulation platform, adding generative AI capabilities and a new connector for Unity's engine. Powered by the Ada Lovelace architecture and DLSS 3, the release boosts performance by up to 3x and rolls out DeepSearch for natural language 3D asset discovery. Why it matters: It bridges disparate 3D ecosystems, making industrial digital twins far easier to build.
NVIDIA's GauGAN2 lets creators turn simple brush sketches and text prompts into photorealistic nature landscapes. Trained on 10 million scenic images, it lets you tweak mountains and skies stroke by stroke using a segmentation map, making it a handy sketchpad for storyboard artists despite its retro UI.
