AI is a market in which NVIDIA sees a lot of promise, the company is the world-leader in AI hardware and it hopes this market will grow tremendously over the next couple of years. Handing out a couple of free cards here and there seems like a good way to make researchers happy, and potentially score a huge ROI.
At the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference in Salt Lake City Wednesday, NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang told top AI researchers he wanted to help them achieve a very different kind of peak performance — before unveiling a big surprise.There are no photos of the actual card, so we don't know if it looks different than the regular TITAN V. We do have a box shot, it features a band with CEO Edition printed on it. Perhaps these limited edition cards are autographed by NVIDIA's boss.
“The number of problems you guys are able to solve as a result of deep learning is truly amazing,” Huang said, addressing more than 500 guests at NVIDIA’s “best of Utah” themed CVPR bash at the Grand America Hotel. “We’ve dedicated our company to create a computing platform to advance your work. Our goal is to enable you to do amazing research.”