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Nvidia has unveiled its latest artificial intelligence chips, which the company claims are far more powerful than its current market-leading hardware, as it sets its sights on expanding its dominance of the booming industry.
Nvidia's new Blackwell GPUs will significantly increase the computing power that drives large language models, CEO Jensen Huang said Monday. The Blackwell GPU has 208 billion transistors, compared to last year's H100, which had 80 billion transistors, a measure of its increased power.
“Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to introduce you to a very, very large GPU,” Huang told a large audience at the SAP Center in San Jose, California, where Nvidia holds its annual developers conference.
Huang said the chip was twice as powerful when it comes to training AI models than current-generation GPUs, and has five times more power when it comes to “inference” — the speed at which AI models like ChatGPT can respond to queries.
Nvidia chips have become the commodity that powered the generative AI revolution, and the company's stock surge has sent stock prices around the world soaring.
Its market value has grown to $2.2 trillion, surpassing Google and Amazon to become the third most valuable company in the world after Microsoft and Apple. Nvidia shares were little changed in after-hours trading.
