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Nvidia’s GTC 2025 will feature AI’s brightest minds and draw 25K attendees in person

Nvidia today announced GTC 2025, the world’s premier AI conference, will return March 17 to March 21 to San Jose, California, with an estimated 25,000 in-person attendees and 300,000 virtually. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang‘s keynote is expected to be so popular that it will once again have to be held in a concert venue, SAP Center. It takes place at 10 a.m. Pacific time on March 18. His talk will…
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2025 has already brought us the most performant AI ever: What can we do with these supercharged capabilities (and what’s next)?

The latest AI large language model (LLMs) releases, such as Claude 3.7 from Anthropic and Grok 3 from xAI, are often performing at PhD levels — at least according to certain benchmarks. This accomplishment marks the next step toward what former Google CEO Eric Schmidt envisions: A world where everyone has access to “a great polymath,” an AI capable of drawing on vast bodies of knowledge to…
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Hugging Face launches FastRTC to simplify real-time AI voice and video apps

Hugging Face, the AI startup valued at over $4 billion, has introduced FastRTC, an open-source Python library that removes a major obstacle for developers when building real-time audio and video AI applications. “Building real-time WebRTC and Websocket applications is very difficult to get right in Python,” Freddy Boulton, one of FastRTC’s creators, said in an announcement on X.com. “Until…
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How big U.S. bank BNY manages armies of AI agents

The financial services industry is one of the most regulated sectors. It also manages huge amounts of data. Conscious of a need for caution, financial companies have slowly added generative AI and AI agents to their stables of services.  The industry is no stranger to automation. But use of the term “agent” has been muted. And understandably, many in the industry took a very cautious stance…
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