TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (黃仁勳) on Sunday (June 2) said everything his firm does begins in Taiwan before being brought to the world.
During his keynote address for Computex Taipei at National Taiwan University, Huang highlighted the importance of Taiwan in developing and adopting Nvidia's AI technology. Huang cited examples of Taiwan's top technology firms adopting his company's systems and presented an example of AI being used to simulate the path of a typhoon headed toward Taiwan.
Huang lauded Taiwan as the “home of our treasured partners." Huang emphasized that Taiwan is “where everything Nvidia does begins, (before) our partners and ourselves take it to the world.”
Huang said Taiwan and Nvidia's partnership with local companies has “created the world's AI infrastructure today.” His speech touched on the progress of Nvidia's work with Taiwanese firms, the impact of generative AI on all industries, a blueprint for how Nvidia's technology will be used, and future developments.
When talking about advancements in Nvidia's CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture), a software framework for parallel computing, Huang praised “amazing system makers” in Taiwan for adopting the technology. He pointed out that CUDA has been used to create Earth-2, a cloud-based platform for simulating and visualizing weather and climate.
Huang explained that Earth-2 is a digital twin of Earth designed to simulate potential future natural disasters and the impacts of climate change. He then presented a video introducing Nvidia's generative AI model called CorrDiff, which used diffusion modeling to generate 12.5x higher resolution images than current numerical models from 25 km to 2 km, 1,000x faster, and 3,000x more energy efficient.
The video said Taiwan's Central Weather Administration now uses CorrDiff to forecast typhoon landfalls more accurately. It added that the next stage is “hyper-local forecasting” down to tens of meters.
It can simulate the wind flow around specific buildings and the potential effects on facilities and pedestrians. After the video concluded, Huang wowed the crowd by pointing out that the Mandarin narration was a “Jensen AI,” as he admitted, “My Chinese is not good enough.”
He said in the future, AI will be able to provide continuous, real-time weather prediction for every square kilometer of the planet.
Huang added that several Taiwanese companies, including Foxconn, Delta Electronics, Pegatron, and Wistron, use digital twins to simulate their factories. He also declared, "Robotics is here, physical AI is here, this is not science fiction and it's being used all over Taiwan.”
Huang concluded by showing a video thanking Taiwan for helping Nvidia "build our vision." In it, the Jensen AI declared "Taiwan is the unsung hero, a steadfast pillar of the world."
He thanked Nvidia's partners for being the "bedrock for the AI industrial revolution," including Asus, ASRock, Foxconn, Inventec, Supermicro, Pegatron, Quanta Computer, QCT, Gigabyte, Wistron, and Wiwynn. He said together they will improve convenience, fight disease and natural disasters, and make the world a better place.
He then finished by saying, “Thank you, Taiwan. Let us continue this journey into the AI revolution and build a successful and thriving industry together.”
Huang's full keynote speech can be seen below:
