AWS at NVIDIA GTC 2024: Speed up innovation with generative AI on AWS

AWS was delighted to current to and join with over 18,000 in-person and 267,000 digital attendees at NVIDIA GTC, a worldwide synthetic intelligence (AI) convention that passed off March 2024 in San Jose, California, returning to a hybrid, in-person expertise for the primary time since 2019.

AWS has had a long-standing collaboration with NVIDIA for over 13 years. AWS was the primary Cloud Service Supplier (CSP) to supply NVIDIA GPUs within the public cloud, and stays among the many first to deploy NVIDIA’s newest applied sciences.

Wanting again at AWS re:Invent 2023, Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, chatted with AWS CEO Adam Selipsky on stage, discussing how NVIDIA and AWS are working collectively to allow tens of millions of builders to entry highly effective applied sciences wanted to quickly innovate with generative AI. NVIDIA is understood for its cutting-edge accelerators and full-stack options that contribute to developments in AI. The corporate is combining this experience with the extremely scalable, dependable, and safe AWS Cloud infrastructure to assist clients run superior graphics, machine studying, and generative AI workloads at an accelerated tempo.

The collaboration between AWS and NVIDIA additional expanded at GTC 2024, with the CEOs from each corporations sharing their views on the collaboration and state of AI in a press release:

“The deep collaboration between our two organizations goes again greater than 13 years, when collectively we launched the world’s first GPU cloud occasion on AWS, and at the moment we provide the widest vary of NVIDIA GPU options for patrons,” says Adam Selipsky, CEO of AWS. “NVIDIA’s next-generation Grace Blackwell processor marks a major step ahead in generative AI and GPU computing. When mixed with AWS’s highly effective Elastic Fabric Adapter networking, Amazon EC2 UltraClusters’ hyper-scale clustering, and our distinctive AWS Nitro System’s superior virtualization and safety capabilities, we make it doable for patrons to construct and run multi-trillion parameter massive language fashions sooner, at huge scale, and extra securely than anyplace else. Collectively, we proceed to innovate to make AWS one of the best place to run NVIDIA GPUs within the cloud.”

“AI is driving breakthroughs at an unprecedented tempo, resulting in new purposes, enterprise fashions, and innovation throughout industries,” says Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “Our collaboration with AWS is accelerating new generative AI capabilities and offering clients with unprecedented computing energy to push the boundaries of what’s doable.”

Joint bulletins and keynote

On the primary day of the NVIDIA GTC, AWS and NVIDIA made a joint announcement targeted on their strategic collaboration to advance generative AI. Huang included the AWS and NVIDIA collaboration on a slide throughout his keynote, highlighting the next announcements. The GTC keynote had over 21 million views throughout the first 72 hours.

Media protection

By March 22, AWS’s announcement with NVIDIA had generated 104 articles mentioning AWS and Amazon. The overwhelming majority of protection talked about AWS’s plans to supply Blackwell-based cases. Adam Selipsky appeared on CNBC’s Mad Cash to debate the long-standing collaboration between AWS and NVIDIA, among the many many different methods AWS is innovating in generative AI, stating that AWS has been the primary to convey lots of its GPUs to the cloud to drive effectivity and scalability for patrons.

Mission Ceiba has additionally been a spotlight in media protection. Forbes referred to Mission Ceiba because the “most enjoyable” mission by AWS and NVIDIA, stating that it “ought to speed up the tempo of innovation in AI, making it doable to sort out extra complicated issues, develop extra subtle fashions, and obtain beforehand unattainable breakthroughs.” The Next Platform ran an in-depth piece on Ceiba, stating that “the scale and the mixture compute of Ceiba cluster are each being radically expanded, which is able to give AWS a really massive supercomputer in one among its knowledge facilities” and NVIDIA will use it to do AI analysis, amongst different issues.

Reside from GTC

“Reside from GTC” was an on-site studio at GTC for invited audio system to have a hearth chat with tech influencers like VentureBeat. Chetan Kapoor, Director of Product Administration for Amazon EC2 at AWS, was interviewed by VentureBeat on the Live from GTC studio, the place he mentioned AWS’s presence and highlighted key bulletins at GTC.

The AWS sales space and periods

The AWS sales space showcased generative AI companies, just like the LLMs with Anthropic and Cohere on Amazon Bedrock, PartyRock, Amazon Q, Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, and extra. Highlights included:

AWS presence with companions and clients

Throughout GTC, AWS invited 23 associate and buyer resolution demos to affix its sales space with both a devoted demo kiosk or a 30-minute in-booth session. Such companions and clients included Ansys, Anthropic, Articul8, Bria.ai, Cohere, Deci, Deepbrain.AI, Denali Superior Integration, Ganit, Hugging Face, Lilt, Linker Imaginative and prescient, Mavenir, MCE, Media.Monks, Modular, NVIDIA, Perplexity, Quantiphi, Run.ai, Salesforce, Second Spectrum, and Slalom.

Amongst them, high-potential early-stage startups in generative AI throughout the globe have been showcased with a devoted kiosk on the AWS sales space. The AWS Startups workforce works carefully with these corporations by investing and supporting their development, providing assets via packages like AWS Activate.

AWS Generative AI Competency

NVIDIA was one of many 45 launch companions for the brand new AWS Generative AI Competency program. The Generative AI Heart of Excellence for AWS Companions workforce members have been on website on the AWS sales space, presenting this program for each present and potential AWS companions. This system presents useful assets together with finest practices for all AWS companions to construct, market, and promote generative AI options collectively with AWS.

Further assets

Watch a video recap of the AWS presence at NVIDIA GTC 2024. For added assets in regards to the AWS and NVIDIA collaboration, check with the AWS at NVIDIA GTC 2024 useful resource hub.

Concerning the Writer

Julie Tang is the Senior International Associate Advertising Supervisor for Generative AI at Amazon Net Providers (AWS), the place she collaborates carefully with NVIDIA to plan and execute associate advertising and marketing initiatives targeted on generative AI. All through her tenure at AWS, she has held varied associate advertising and marketing roles, together with International IoT Options, AWS Associate Resolution Manufacturing unit, and Sr. Marketing campaign Supervisor in Americas Subject Advertising. Previous to AWS, Julie served because the Advertising Director at Segway. She holds a Grasp’s diploma in Communications Administration with a give attention to advertising and marketing and leisure administration from the College of Southern California, and twin Bachelor’s levels in Legislation and Broadcast Journalism from Fudan College.