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Fine-tuning LLMs to 1.58bit: extreme quantization made easy

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Accelerating Oracle Database Gen AI Workloads with NVIDIA NIM and NVIDIA cuVS

The vast majority of the world’s data remains untapped, and enterprises are looking to generate value from this data by creating the next wave of generative AI…

The vast majority of the world’s data remains untapped, and enterprises are looking to generate value from this data by creating the next wave of generative AI applications that will make a transformative business impact. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines are a key part of this, enabling users to have conversations with large corpuses of data and turning manuals, policy documents…

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Introducing the SQL Console on Datasets

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Upgrade Livestreams With Twitch Enhanced Broadcasting and the NVIDIA Encoder

At TwitchCon — a global convention for the Twitch livestreaming platform — livestreamers and content creators this week can experience the latest technologies for accelerating creative workflows and improving video quality. That includes the beta release of Twitch Enhanced Broadcasting support for NVIDIA’s HEVC codec, delivering 25% improved video quality.

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Polars GPU Engine Powered by RAPIDS cuDF Now Available in Open Beta

Today, Polars released a new GPU engine powered by RAPIDS cuDF that accelerates Polars workflows up to 13x on NVIDIA GPUs, allowing data scientists to process…

Today, Polars released a new GPU engine powered by RAPIDS cuDF that accelerates Polars workflows up to 13x on NVIDIA GPUs, allowing data scientists to process hundreds of millions of rows of data in seconds on a single machine. Traditional data processing libraries like pandas are single-threaded and become impractical to use beyond a few million rows of data.

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Optimizing Data Center Performance with AI Agents and the OODA Loop Strategy

Decorative image of a robot next to several NVIDIA icons.For any data center, operating large, complex GPU clusters is not for the faint of heart! There is a tremendous amount of complexity. Cooling, power,…Decorative image of a robot next to several NVIDIA icons.

For any data center, operating large, complex GPU clusters is not for the faint of heart! There is a tremendous amount of complexity. Cooling, power, networking, and even such benign things like fan replacement cycles all must be managed effectively and governed well in accelerated computing data centers. Managing all of this requires an accelerated understanding of the petabytes of telemetry data…

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New AI Innovation Hub in Tunisia Drives Technological Advancement Across Africa

A new AI innovation hub for developers across Tunisia launched today in Novation City, a technology park that’s designed to cultivate a vibrant, innovation ecosystem in mechatronics — an industry encompassing IT, mechanics and electronics — and to foster synergy between education, research and industry in the North African country. Built in collaboration with the
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Memory Efficiency, Faster Initialization, and Cost Estimation with NVIDIA Collective Communications Library 2.22

Decorative image of a cube of green cubes, surrounded by other cubes on a dark background.For the past few months, the NVIDIA Collective Communications Library (NCCL) developers have been working hard on a set of new library features and bug fixes….Decorative image of a cube of green cubes, surrounded by other cubes on a dark background.

For the past few months, the NVIDIA Collective Communications Library (NCCL) developers have been working hard on a set of new library features and bug fixes. In this post, we discuss the details of the NCCL 2.22 release and the pain points addressed. NVIDIA Magnum IO NCCL is a library designed to optimize inter-GPU and multi-node communication, crucial for efficient parallel computing…

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Generate code with Abacus AI’s Dracarys Large Language Model

Dracarys, fine-tuned from Llama 3.1 70B and available from NVIDIA NIM microservice, supports a variety of applications, including data analysis, text…

Dracarys, fine-tuned from Llama 3.1 70B and available from NVIDIA NIM microservice, supports a variety of applications, including data analysis, text summarization, and multi-language support.

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Orchestrating Innovation at Scale with NVIDIA Maxine and Texel

Two images of the same person, one looking away from the camera (before) and one looking directly at the camera (after). A label in the lower right says Texel.The NVIDIA Maxine AI developer platform is a suite of NVIDIA NIM microservices, cloud-accelerated microservices, and SDKs that offer state-of-the-art features…Two images of the same person, one looking away from the camera (before) and one looking directly at the camera (after). A label in the lower right says Texel.

The NVIDIA Maxine AI developer platform is a suite of NVIDIA NIM microservices, cloud-accelerated microservices, and SDKs that offer state-of-the-art features for enhancing real-time video and audio. NVIDIA partners use Maxine features to create better virtual interaction experiences and improve human connections with their applications. Making and maintaining eye contact are rare in virtual…

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