Accelerated computing is sustainable computing, explained Bob Pette, vice president and general manager of enterprise platforms at NVIDIA, in a keynote speech at the conference NVIDIA AI Summit Tuesday in Washington, D.C.
NVIDIA’s accelerated computing isn’t just efficient. It is an essential part of the next wave of industrial, scientific and healthcare transformations.
“We are at the dawn of a new industrial revolution,” Pette told an audience of policymakers, journalists, developers and entrepreneurs gathered for the event. “I’m just here to tell you that we design our systems with not only performance in mind, but also energy efficiency.”
NVIDIA’s Blackwell Platform has achieved breakthrough energy efficiency in AI computing, reducing power consumption up to 2,000 times over the past decade for training models like GPT-4.
NVIDIA-accelerated computing reduces energy consumption for token generation (the production of AI models) by 100,000 times, highlighting the value of accelerated computing for sustainability amid rapid adoption of AI in the world.
“These AI factories make products. These products are tokens, tokens are intelligence and intelligence is money,” Pette said. This is what “will revolutionize every industry on this planet”.
NVIDIA’s CUDA libraries, which have played a fundamental role in technological advancements across industries, now power more than 4,000 accelerated applications, Pette explained.
“CUDA enables acceleration…. It also turns out to be one of the most impressive ways to reduce energy consumption,” Pette said.
These libraries are at the heart of the company’s innovations in energy-efficient AI, enabling significant performance gains while minimizing power consumption.
Pette also explained how NVIDIA AI software helps organizations deploy AI solutions quickly and efficiently, enabling businesses to innovate faster and solve complex problems across industries.
Pette discussed the concept of agentic AI, which goes beyond traditional AI by enabling intelligent agents to perceive, reason, and act autonomously.
Agentic AI is capable of “reasoning, learning and acting,” Pette said. This is transforming industries like manufacturing, customer service and healthcare,” Pette said.
These AI agents are transforming industries by automating complex tasks and accelerating innovation in sectors such as manufacturing, customer service and healthcare, he explained.
He also described how AI agents enable companies to drive innovation in healthcare, manufacturing, scientific research and climate modeling.
With agentic AI, “you can do in minutes what used to take days,” Pette said.
NVIDIA, together with its partners, is tackling some of the world’s greatest challenges, including improving diagnostics and healthcare delivery, advancing climate modeling efforts, and even helping find signs of life beyond our planet.
NVIDIA is collaborating with SETI to conduct real-time AI searches for fast radio bursts from distant galaxies, helping to further space exploration, Pette said.
Pette highlighted that NVIDIA unlocks a $10 trillion opportunity in healthcare.
Thanks to AI, NVIDIA is accelerate innovations in diagnostics, drug discovery and medical imaging, helping to transform patient care around the world.
Solutions such as the NVIDIA Clara medical imaging platform are revolutionizing diagnostics, Parabricks is enabling breakthroughs in genomics research, and the MONAI AI framework is advancing medical imaging capabilities.
Pette highlighted partnerships with leading institutions, including Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburghpromoting innovation and the development of AI.
Pette also described how NVIDIA’s collaboration with federal agencies illustrates the importance of public-private partnerships to advance AI-based solutions in healthcare, climate modeling and national security.
Pette also announced that a New NVIDIA NIM Agent Blueprint Supports Advances in Cybersecurityenabling industries to protect critical infrastructure with AI-powered solutions.
In the area of cybersecurity, Pette highlighted the NVIDIA NIM Agent Blueprint, a powerful tool for organizations to protect critical infrastructure with real-time threat detection and analysis.
This plan reduces response times to threats from days to seconds, representing a significant step forward in protecting industries.
“Agent systems can access tools and reason through complete lines of thought to provide instantaneous assessments at the click of a button,” Pette said. “This increases productivity by allowing security analysts to focus on the most critical tasks while AI does the heavy lifting of analysis, providing fast, actionable insights.
NVIDIA’s accelerated computing solutions advance climate research by enabling more accurate and faster climate modeling. This technology helps scientists tackle some of the most pressing environmental challenges, from monitoring global temperatures to predicting natural disasters.
Pette described how the NVIDIA Earth 2 platform allows climate experts to import data from multiple sources, merging it for analysis using Nvidia Omniverse. “NVIDIA Earth 2 brings together the power of simulation AI and visualization to strengthen the climate and technology ecosystem,” Pette said.
NVIDIA’s Greg Estes on creating the AI workforce of the future
Following Pette’s speech, Greg Estes, NVIDIA’s vice president of corporate marketing and development programs, highlighted the company’s commitment to workforce training through initiatives such as the NVIDIA AI Technology Community.
And thanks to his Deep Learning InstituteNVIDIA has already trained more than 600,000 people worldwide, equipping the next generation with the essential skills to navigate and lead in an AI-driven future.
Exploring the role of AI in cybersecurity and sustainability
Throughout the week, industry leaders explore the role of AI in solving critical problems in areas such as cybersecurity and sustainability.
Upcoming sessions will feature U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm discussing how AI is advancing energy innovation and scientific discovery.
Other speakers will address the role of AI in climate monitoring and environmental management, demonstrating the technology’s ability to address global sustainability challenges.
Learn more about how this week AI Summit highlights how AI is shaping the future across industries and how NVIDIA solutions lay the foundation for continued innovation.
