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“Unexpected Revelations at GTC: A Recap of Nvidia’s Keynote”

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Nvidia chips give graphics-hungry gamers the tools they need to play games in higher resolution, with higher quality and higher frame rates. Anyone who came to the keynote expecting him to pull a Tim Cook, with a slick, audience-focused keynote, was bound to be disappointed. The company also introduced Nvidia NIM, a software platform aimed at simplifying the deployment of AI models. “Anything you can digitize: So long as there is some structure where we can apply some patterns, means we can learn the patterns,” Huang said. And here we are, in the generative AI revolution.”Catch up on Nvidia’s GTC 2024:Update: This post was updated to include new information and a video of the keynote.

Unexpected Revelations at Nvidia’s GTC Keynote

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Nvidia chips give graphics-hungry gamers the tools they needed to play games in higher resolution, with higher quality and higher frame rates. Anyone who had come to the keynote expecting him to pull a Tim Cook, with a slick, audience-focused keynote, was bound to be disappointed. The company also introduced Nvidia NIM, a software platform aimed at simplifying the deployment of AI models. NIM leverages Nvidia’s hardware as a foundation and aims to accelerate companies’ AI initiatives by providing an ecosystem of AI-ready containers. “Anything you can digitize: So long as there is some structure where we can apply some patterns, means we can learn the patterns,” Huang said.

Maximizing Bitcoin’s Trillion-Dollar Potential: Asymmetric Financial’s DeFi Fund Strategy

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Crypto fund Asymmetric Financial is creating its Bitcoin DeFi Venture Fund I to focus on investing in the blockchain’s nascent space with a target raise of $21 million. The fund will be spearheaded by general partner Dan Held, former director of growth at Kraken and long-time Bitcoiner. Many Bitcoin-focused VCs ignore DeFi because it’s speculative, and broader crypto VCs see it as a “dead boomer rock,” he added. Much of this activity has centered on the Ethereum blockchain, but Held believes Bitcoin’s blockchain has tons of future potential as an ecosystem. “It will be a Bitcoin DeFi renaissance.”“Bitcoin is worth more than every other crypto asset combined,” Held added.