NVIDIA to Put DGX Computers in the Cloud, Becomes AI-as-a-Service Provider

[AleksandarK]

NVIDIA has recently reported its Q4 earnings, and the earnings call following the report contains exciting details about the company and its plans to open up to new possibilities. NVIDIA's CEO Jensen Huang has stated that the company is on track to become an AI-as-a-Service (AIaaS) provider, which technically makes it a cloud service provider (CSP). "Today, I want to share with you the next level of our business model to help put AI within reach of every enterprise customer. We are partnering with major service -- cloud service providers to offer NVIDIA AI cloud services, offered directly by NVIDIA and through our network of go-to-market partners, and hosted within the world's largest clouds." Said Mr. Huang, adding that "NVIDIA AI as a service offers enterprises easy access to the world's most advanced AI platform, while remaining close to the storage, networking, security and cloud services offered by the world's most advanced clouds. Customers can engage NVIDIA AI cloud services at the AI supercomputer, acceleration library software, or pretrained AI model layers."

In addition to enrolling other CSPs into the race, NVIDIA is also going to offer DGX machines on demand in the cloud. Using select CSPs, you can get access to an entire DGX and harness the computing power for AI research purposes. Mr. Huang noted "NVIDIA DGX is an AI supercomputer, and the blueprint of AI factories being built around the world. AI supercomputers are hard and time-consuming to build. Today, we are announcing the NVIDIA DGX Cloud, the fastest and easiest way to have your own DGX AI supercomputer, just open your browser. NVIDIA DGX Cloud is already available through Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Microsoft Azure, Google GCP, and others on the way."



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[Redwoodz]

In before you start finding unknown processes in your gpu driver.

 

[Assimilator]

In before you start finding unknown processes in your gpu driver.

What does this even mean?

 

[ZoneDymo]

ah yes, the dream, everything as a service, everything with a monthly payment subscription.

 

[Redwoodz]

What does this even mean?

Jensen just spent 3 years telling us we need Tensor cores for gaming

 

[dragontamer5788]

ah yes, the dream, everything as a service, everything with a monthly payment subscription.

DGX computers are well over $200,000, even for the older models. I wouldn't be surprised if the H100 model were hitting $1MM or more. These are computers that absolutely should be subscribed to, unless your organization 100% knows its going to actually use them effectively.

Honestly, $10,000/month for access to a DGX computer is 100% worthwhile, especially if you're in the "Lets see if my developers even can benefit from this kind of computer" phase for your organization. No point sinking $200k, $300k, or more into an expensive paperweight.

 

[ThrashZone]

What does this even mean?

Hi,
Wild typo
Then you start finding unknown processes in your gpu driver.

 

[N3utro]

If nvidia's AI technology was so great, it would probably tell them to stop taking customers for pigeons

 

[Ferrum Master]

Hi,
Wild typo
Then you start finding unknown processes in your gpu driver.

You meant more unknown processes besides ones that are already are there

 

[bug]

And just the other day, in the thread about AMD almost matching Nvidia in gaming revenue, I was pointing out there's this new market where AMD is virtually non-existent.
I know, smaller player, can't tackle everything at once, but it still seems like they're missing out big time.

 

[SOAREVERSOR]

ah yes, the dream, everything as a service, everything with a monthly payment subscription.

PC gaming is going to be the first gaming platform to do this. That's why it's the master race.

 

[FierceRed]

PC gaming is going to be the first gaming platform to do this. That's why it's the master race.

I detected the /s, but if this comes to pass are you sure we'd still be the masters in that arrangement?

 

[SOAREVERSOR]

I detected the /s, but if this comes to pass are you sure we'd still be the masters in that arrangement? View attachment 285687

Wasn't sarcastic at all. PC gaming will go to the cloud and lead the consoles there. As it always has been. PC is the cloud gaming leader. Always has been, always will be. And PC gaming will lead the charge in paying for frames, paying for refresh rates, and paying for details setting. PC gaming is the issue. Always was, currently is, always will be.

It will still have better RGB though. That's what you're going to get on the PC. Pay for service, pay for frame rates, pay for refresh items, pay for details settings, but you will own the RGB!

 

[claes]

Preeeeety sure xbox cloud whatever has far more users than any pc based streaming service but yeah, saas is the future, for better or worse