Nvidia has unveiled some major announcements during this week’s GTC 2024, including the Nvidia Blackwell Platform to boost the ability of developers to build more advanced AI models.

Nvidia has come a long way since it was first set up in 1993 to bring 3D graphics to the gaming industry. Following its invention of the graphics processing unit (GPU) in 1999, today Nvidia is the third-most valuable company in the US behind Microsoft and Apple, recently hitting a market valuation of $2tn.

At GTC 2024, its annual developer conference, Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang took to the stage for his keynote announcing that with the rise of multi-modal AI – able to process diverse data types handled by different models – the demand for advanced computing infrastructure intensifies.

“We need another way of doing computing so that we can continue to scale, so that we can continue to drive down the cost of computing, so that we can continue to consume more and more computing while being sustainable...