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NVIDIA has once again reaffirmed its commitment to innovation in the ongoing GTC 2023. In just the first day, NVIDIA announced several enhancements across its portfolio, including Omniverse Cloud and Isaac Sim. It also made official a handful of partnerships and upgrades to its GPUS for different use cases. And all that happened on the very first day of the spring edition of NVIDIA’s flagship conference.

NVIDIA Founder and CEO Jensen Huang announced in his GTC keynote the expansion of Omniverse Cloud to power industrial digitalisation. He also announced a collaboration with Microsoft to bring the industrial metaverse and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Enterprise users. Moreover, he officially launched six new NVIDIA RTX Ada Lovelace architecture GPUs.

NVIDIA Expands Omniverse Cloud to Power Industrial Digitalisation

NVIDIA Omniverse Cloud is a platform-as-a-service that enables companies to unify digitalisation across their core product and business processes. It is now available to select enterprises thanks to Huang’s vision. Through Omniverse Cloud, NVIDIA and Microsoft will provide customers with a full-stack cloud environment and platform capabilities. Customers can then use these to design, develop, deploy and manage industrial metaverse applications. Omniverse Cloud also connects with the products that customers use from NVIDIA’s partner ecosystem.

NVIDIA and Microsoft to Bring the Industrial Metaverse and AI to Azure Cloud

Huang announced that the collaboration with Microsoft will provide millions of Microsoft enterprise users with access to the powerful industrial metaverse and AI supercomputing resources. Even better news is that these resources will be available via the cloud—Microsoft Azure, to be exact. With this collaboration, Microsoft Azure will now be hosting two NVIDIA cloud offerings—NVIDIA Omniverse Cloud and NVIDIA DGX Cloud.

NVIDIA Redefines Workstations

Aside from expanding the industrial metaverse, Huang also announced how NVIDIA is redefining workstations. To this end, the NVIDIA CEO officially launched the NVIDIA RTX Ada Lovelace architecture GPUs for laptops and desktops. These new workstations will enable creators, engineers and data scientists to meet the demands AI, design and the metaverse. For instance, designers can simulate a concept before turning it real using the new NVIDIA RTX GPUs with NVIDIA Omniverse. Planners can also visualise an entire factory before building it, while engineers can evaluate their designs in real time.

Omniverse Cloud on Azure Improves Access to NVIDIA Isaac Sim

Also at GTC 2023, Huang announced that Omniverse Cloud will be hosted on Microsoft Azure, increasing access to Isaac Sim. Isaac Sim is a robotics simulation application and SDG tool that drives photorealistic, physically accurate virtual environments. The Omniverse-powered Isaac Sim enables global teams to remotely collaborate to build, train, simulate, validate and deploy robots.

By making Isaac Sim accessible in the cloud, NVIDIA enables teams to work together more effectively. Even better, they get access to the latest robotics tools and software development kits. Omniverse Cloud also gives enterprises more options in the cloud with Azure. Those options are in addition to the existing cloud-based methods of using Isaac Sim. These include self-managed containers or using it on virtual workstations or fully managed services such as AWS RoboMaker. Engineers can even build production-quality synthetic datasets to train robust deep-learning perception models. That is thanks to their new access to Omniverse Replicator, an SDG engine in Isaac Sim.

Advancing AI—the NVIDIA Way

NVIDIA is also developing across the AI tools spectrum—from computing in the cloud to at the edge with the Jetson platform. This effort, in turn, is accelerating robotics adoption across industries.

To this end, NVIDIA has made NVIDIA Jetson Orin-based modules available to support various edge AI and robotics applications. These modules include the Jetson Orin Nano, which provides up to 40 trillion operations per second (TOPS) of AI performance in the smallest Jetson module. Another one is Jetson AGX Orin, which delivers 275 TOPS for advanced autonomous machines.

The new Jetson Orin Nano Developer Kit, meanwhile, delivers 80x the performance when compared to the previous-generation Jetson Nano. This increased performance enables developers to run advanced transformer and robotics models.

NVIDIA Expands Omniverse Cloud to Power Industrial Digitalisation

Huang, also in his keynote, shared how digitalisation will enhance the auto industry’s efficiency, productivity and speed. To this end, he announced the partnership with BYD for mainstream software-defined vehicles built on NVIDIA DRIVE.

BYD is the world’s leading manufacturer of new energy vehicles (NEVs). Its partnership will bring about several benefits. First, it will allow BYD to extend its use of the NVIDIA DRIVE Orin centralised compute platform. It will also enable the NEV manufacturer to expand its use of DRIVE Orin across multiple NEV models. These models are part of the next-generation Dynasty and Ocean series, and will bring safe and intelligent vehicles to market.

In addition, Huang announced that NVIDIA Omniverse Cloud is now available as well to select enterprises. It is built on the success of and experience of early Omniverse Enterprise customers, like BMW and Jaguar Land Rover.

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