Nvidia (NVDA.US) released "ready-made" software and services to accelerate the widespread adoption of AI.
Intel Corp. (INTC.US), the world's largest chipmaker, announced a series of updates to its software products aimed at making generative AI more accessible to a wider range of businesses, in an effort to capitalize on the growing demand for artificial intelligence.
Generative AI is the technology behind chatbots, speech recognition and other automated interactions between humans and computers, which often require coordination of many hardware, software and information retrieval components. Many companies lack the expertise to do this, so Nvidia is trying to provide the service and charge for it.
Nvidia's chips have become central to the construction of new systems for supporting AI computing, and the company's revenue more than doubled last year and is on track to double again this year.
The software and services are included in Nvidia's AI Enterprise product, which costs $4,500 per year for every graphics processor used. The software and services are designed for Nvidia's hardware.
"NIMs is a comprehensive solution for deploying generative AI for developers, but it can be used for large-scale applications," said Kari Briski, VP of product management for Nvidia's AI and advanced computing software development suites.
For example, Getty Images Holdings Inc.'s services improved high-resolution image generation by making software better understand text prompts. Shutterstock Inc.'s Edify 3D image generator is about to launch with the ability to respond to text or images.
Nvidia said most AI is used by knowledge workers to help with digital tasks. To make generative AI more widely used, Nvidia is providing software and services that let users of Apple Inc.'s (AAPL.US) Vision Pro headsets create virtual worlds. Nvidia said the so-called Virtual Twins would be used to train robot computers to perform tasks more like humans, eliminating the need for developers to do manual operations.