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The New Economics of Cloud Infrastructure

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The Future of AI and the Concept of Digital Twins

The importance of reducing friction when rewriting applications and taking advantage of new APIs is discussed in this chapter. The speakers introduce Doka, a new layer that protects the investment of partners using GPUs. The chapter also touches on the future of AI in businesses and the concept of digital twins.

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Speaker 3
Yeah, and that makes perfect sense because, yeah, I was just going to say, if you get friction in something, that's where you're going to get the friction, is rewriting that app, and to take advantage of new APIs, even if it is something really powerful and you're getting a lot out of it, sometimes just that friction of who's going to rewrite the app becomes the where all the problems are coming from. Right. So I think
Speaker 2
what's good there is we have some history with AI and our GPUs with CUDA. So CUDA was the framework and is the framework, but for more than a decade, has supported application developers. So you can go back to a 10-year-old GPU and you wrote your application on top of CUDA, and it'll still run on our latest, greatest, ampere GPUs. It'll run a lot faster, of course, now, because we've got massive amounts of acceleration of the hardware. And so really, this Doka layer is for GPUs, what CUDA is for GPUs. So we're excited that we've got something that will protect the investment that our partners are making.
Speaker 1
Very, very cool. And we'll get all that stuff in the show notes for folks. So if they're listening, they want to follow up, we'll have links in there. I want to ask you one last question. You talked a little bit in the opening about these new things that are happening, whether it's autonomous driving or improvements for 5G TELCO. What are some of the things you see over the next couple of years that are really going to ramp up because this new capability is available? I can accelerate things. What are some of the early conversations you're having with people that they go, oh, OK, this new door has been unlocked and the floodgates are going to open and things happen? What are some of those things that people might expect to see or kind of get their peak their interest as to what's possible with this?
Speaker 2
Yeah, I think every business is going to become an AI business. And that's simply because the ones that don't won't be around. And one of the key technologies that is amazing is really this notion of a digital twin. And so whatever the product is that you can imagine that you're trying to build or you're trying to fit into, imagine duplicating that in the digital world. And we see this, we showed it most recently with an automobile application where Volvo was actually showing a car that they were building. And every single piece of that car was in their database and we could see that car visually and change things. What if we want to move the steering wheel from the left side to the right side? What happens? And that type of digital twin, and I think even in the space of pharmaceuticals, we're actually modeling human beings. If you look at what's happened most recently with the pharmaceuticals and vaccine developments, we can accelerate that if we can actually have a model for the human immune system that we can start to test things out and evolve that model over time. So I think it's across the board. Any business today can benefit from AI. And I think everything will. Yeah,
Speaker 1
no, that's that's really interesting. I know we, you know, we've got some friends who run a company called swim.ai who is, you know, in this space, they were introduced digital twin twins to us probably 18 months ago. For those of you listening, James Urkart, who was on a few weeks ago was talking about digital twins in the sort of flow space and event driven application space. So yeah, this is definitely a buzzword and a concept to keep, you know, on your radar and so forth. Kevin, we can't thank you enough for for kind of introducing us to to what's going on both at an NVIDIA, but what would DP use and some of the new things that you're able to do with accelerants. Thank you so much for the time today. If people want to reach out and kind of pick your brain on some of these topics, what's a good way to get engaged with you?
Speaker 2
Yeah, so the easiest way is just go to the NVIDIA website or you can tweet me. I'm a taxi or KD and I'll respond.
Speaker 1
Yeah, very, very cool. Aaron, we learned a lot today. You want to take us
Speaker 3
home? Yeah, absolutely. So, as always, thank you everyone for listening. And if you have a moment, we would love a review on the either the iTunes store or the Google Play store as well. You know, we've been out there for quite some time, but trying to build up the reviews a little bit. So if you have a moment, we'd love to see that. And as always, thank you for listening this week and we'll listen or excuse me. We hope you'll join us next week as well. Thank you. Thank
Speaker 4
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