Nvidia's Hot Chips presentation. Source: Nvidia
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Nvidia touts open source AI tech at Hot Chips event

Nvidia argued that technological democratization is amplified through broad availability of its systems and open source software specifically designed to accelerate AI, from the cloud and data center to desktops and edge devices.

At the Hot Chips event in Silicon Valley, the Santa Clara, California-based company noted Nvidia’s Blackwell GPU architecture is a purpose-built AI superchip. It packs fifth-generation Tensor Cores and a new numerical format, NVFP4 (4-bit floating-point), to deliver massive compute performance with high accuracy.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.