Nvidia shows off AI push with new platforms, GPUs, partnerships
BING-JHEN HONG

Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) unveiled several new products and partnerships at its GTC 2023 developer conference on Tuesday, including a new quantum computing platform.
Speaking at the annual confab, Chief Executive Jensen Huang said the impressive capabilities of generative AI created a sense of urgency for companies to reinvent themselves and be the disrupter and not the disrupted.
"The iPhone moment of AI has started," Huang said, referencing the amount of attention generative AI and, specifically, ChatGPT, has received.
Huang unveiled the new DGX Quantum platform, which is built with Quantum Machines and can train the newly open-sourced CUDA Quantum platform to give researchers working in quantum computing. 
In addition, Huang and Nvidia (NVDA) disclosed several new agreements with other companies to expand the use cases of AI. The company partnered with Medtronic (MDT) to integrate AI into patient care and unveiled a new deal with AT&T (T) to increase the Dallas, Texas-based telecoms cost savings and improve performance.
Nvidia (NVDA) also said it would work with Microsoft (MSFT) to allow the tech giant's enterprise users get access to Nvidia Omniverse cloud and DGX cloud, as well as with Oracle (ORCL), which chose Nvidia BlueField for data center acceleration.
Nvidia (NVDA) said the DGX cloud will give companies "immediate" access for multi-node AI supercomputing service to train models for generative AI. DGX Cloud instances start at $36,999 per instance per month, the company said in a statement.
In addition, Nvidia (NVDA) said its Omniverse cloud would be hosted on Microsoft (MSFT) Azure, while adding its newest AI chips would be used in Amazon (AMZN) Web Services and Google (GOOG) (GOOGL) Cloud.
Other announcements made by Nvidia (NVDA) at the annual conference include its NeMo services to bring large language models for creative content and biology, partnering with Getty Images (GTY), Morningstar, Quantiphi and Shutterstock (SSTK) and several biotech companies for drug discoveries. 
Santa Clara, California-based Nvidia (NVDA) showed off several new chipsets, including the L4 GPU, the L 40 GPU, a new H100NVL and the new Grace Hopper CPU, which according to the company, doubles the performance over x86 CPUs on "mainstream" applications. 
Nvidia (NVDA) also made several automotive-related announcements, including that BMW is using Omniverse to create its first entirely virtual factory and a new partnership with Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer BYD to use Nvidia (NVDA) Drive for software-defined vehicles.
Last week, Morgan Stanley upgraded Nvidia (NVDA), calling the company's involvement in AI "one of the most significant developments in technology since the development of mobile internet."