From NVIDIA:

AI is making a significant impact across industries, from addressing natural disasters such as wildfires in California to improving earthquake forecasting with new deep learning models. The technology is also being used to assist organic farming, support fusion energy development, evaluate urban buildings, and predict COVID-19 variants. In addition, AI is helping to develop autonomous wheelchairs and digital twins for brain surgery, optimize solar and wind farms, and reduce food waste.

California’s record wildfires have prompted the development of AI technology for early detection. A convolutional neural network, run on NVIDIA GPUs, is being used for real-time fire detection as part of the ALERTCalifornia initiative.

An innovative deep learning model called RECAST, trained on NVIDIA GPUs, is challenging the status quo of earthquake forecasts and has potential for better predictions during earthquake sequences.

Verdant, based in the San Francisco Bay Area, is utilizing AI for tractor implements to support organic farming. The startup provides farmers with metrics on yield gains and chemical reduction using NVIDIA Jetson Orin-based robots.

Energy Singularity, a startup aiming to lower the cost of building a commercial tokamak for fusion energy development, is using NVIDIA GPUs for research in plasma physics.

AI is being used to evaluate urban buildings, automate the process, and assist in building structures and post-disaster recovery efforts.

A Gordon Bell prize-winning model called GenSLMs has shown that it can generate gene sequences closely resembling real-world variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind COVID-19.

An undergraduate student is developing an NVIDIA Jetson-enabled autonomous wheelchair, leveraging NVIDIA Omniverse for simulation and synthetic data generation.

Atlas Meditech is utilizing the MONAI medical imaging framework and the NVIDIA Omniverse 3D development platform to aid in building AI-powered decision support and high-fidelity surgery rehearsal platforms for brain surgery.

AI is being used to optimize solar and wind farms, simulate climate and weather, and ensure power grid reliability in the energy market.

Artificial intelligence is enabling 2,000 doctors a year in lower-income countries to treat cataract blindness using GPU-powered surgical simulation.

Afresh, a startup based in San Francisco, is using machine learning and AI models to help reduce food waste by enabling grocers to make informed inventory-purchasing decisions.



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