Nvidia CEO bets big on deep learning and VR

Nvidia chief executive Jen-Hsun Huang has ridden the game industry to glory in the graphics chip business. But now those chips are being used for more than just games. They’re supplying the computational power for deep-learning artificial intelligence computing. And Nvidia now has a software development kit for deep-learning A.I. developers.

That software kit will enable developers to create better deep-learning applications to solve problems such as enabling self-driving cars to recognize pedestrians. Nvidia is creating its own deep-learning chip and technology for self-driving cars, Huang said in a keynote speech at the GPUTech conference in San Jose, California.