Nvidia Corp., the world’s most valuable chipmaker, announced a raft of updates to its software offerings that aim to make it easier for a wider variety of businesses to use generative artificial intelligence.

The chip company officially released what it calls NIMs, or Nvidia inference micro services, which are software packages that take care of many of the logistical issues needed to use AI for a specific purpose. Generative AI, the technology behind chatbots, voice recognition and other automated human interactions with computers, often requires the orchestration of numerous pieces of hardware, software and information retrieval. Many companies don’t have the expertise so Nvidia is trying to do that for them, for a fee.

Nvidia founder and Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang showcased his company’s latest offerings Monday at the Siggraph conference in Denver. He’s at the graphics technology conference — the latest in a stream of appearances at public events — seeking to persuade as many industries as possible to start using his technology and make AI pervasive in the economy. Later, he is scheduled to appear on stage at the conference with Meta Platforms Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Nvidia’s chips have become central to the surge in building new systems being deployed to support artificial intelligence computing. The company’s revenue doubled last year and is on course to double again in the current fiscal year.

The software and services are included in its Nvidia AI Enterprise product, which costs US$4,500 per graphics processor used per year. The software and services are designed to work on Nvidia hardware. For more, read the full BNN Bloomberg report.

A few of today's Press Releases from Nvidia

01: NVIDIA Announces Generative AI Models and NIM Microservices for OpenUSD Language, Geometry, Physics and Materials

02: NVIDIA Accelerates Humanoid Robotics Development

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03: Jensen Huang, Mark Zuckerberg to Discuss Future of Graphics and Virtual Worlds at SIGGRAPH 2024:

NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang and Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg will hold a public fireside chat on Monday, July 29, at the 51st edition of the SIGGRAPH graphics conference in Denver.

The two leaders will discuss the future of AI and simulation and the pivotal role of research at SIGGRAPH, which focuses on the intersection of graphics and technology.