Nvidia's got a new fancy chip designed for AI workloads - the Blackwell B200. This one is named after David Harold Blackwell, "a mathematician who specialized in game theory and statistics and was the first Black scholar inducted into the National Academy of Sciences". You'll never get to use one of these GPUs directly, so all you need to know is that it's shitloads faster than the H100 and will be gobbled up by OpenAI, Google and others to keep the AI hype train going. At the same conference, Nvidia and Ubisoft showed off AI-powered NPCs in games that can react to player input dynamically without the need for a voice-over artist to record every piece of the script. It's not as bad as I thought, but still not great.
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