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The Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indosat, and NVIDIA have launched the UGM Indosat NVIDIA AI Technology Center (NVAITC) in Yogyakarta, Indonesia's first university-based AI technology center, to develop local AI talent and address Indonesia's most urgent national priorities. The center is powered by NVIDIA's full-stack AI platform and GPU Merdeka, Indosat's sovereign GPU-as-a-service platform, providing access to enterprise-grade accelerated computing, AI software, and technical mentorship. The initial projects focus on healthcare, agriculture, and natural disaster response, aiming to drive real change and innovation with local and global impact. This initiative has the potential to equip Indonesian talent with the necessary tools and expertise to turn their potential into innovation.

NVIDIA has announced partnerships with major financial institutions to establish independent financing platforms for AI infrastructure, aiming to mobilize over $500 billion in third-party capital. This development marks a significant milestone in the AI industry, as AI factories can now be financed as productive infrastructure, with repeatable platforms and long-term institutional capital. The NVIDIA AI factory platform, including accelerated computing, networking, systems software, and AI frameworks, can run a broad range of AI models and is built on a globally adopted architecture. This flexibility and fungibility, combined with the continuous improvement of CUDA, make NVIDIA compute a valuable and investable asset. The practical implication for engineers building AI systems is that they can now access scalable and flexible infrastructure to support their production needs.

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The increasing demand for AI compute performance requires a new power architecture, with 800 VDC simplifying the power delivery path and reducing inefficiencies. NVIDIA, Google, and Microsoft have developed the 800 VDC architecture through the Open Compute Project, publishing a joint white paper and specification. The new architecture provides a roadmap for AI factories to scale, with on-ramps at every stage of growth, including hybrid-compatible power racks, row power centers, and DC power blocks. This development has significant implications for engineers building AI systems, as it enables higher compute density and more efficient power distribution.

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Firebird has launched the CIS region's largest AI factory in Armenia, powered by NVIDIA accelerated computing and Dell Technologies high-performance AI infrastructure, with plans to deploy over 70,000 NVIDIA GPUs and 300 megawatts of AI infrastructure capacity by 2027. The AI factory is designed to provide computing capacity for training, fine-tuning, and deploying AI models at scale, and is expected to accelerate Armenia's development as a center for AI research and innovation. With a focus on energy efficiency, the AI factory integrates accelerated computing, networking, power, and cooling as one codesigned system, allowing it to run up to 40% more GPUs on the same footprint. This launch has significant implications for engineers building AI systems, as it provides a large-scale infrastructure for developing and deploying AI models.

This chapter outlines a systematic approach to quantifying transformer inference performance, covering everything from per-request latency to multi‑GPU scaling and cost‑per‑token analysis. It introduces practical measurement techniques such as CUDA event timing for GPU workload, memory profiling to capture peak usage, and warm‑up strategies to stabilize latency estimates. The guide also discusses concurrent request handling and how to aggregate metrics across multiple machines, providing a clear path to evaluate both speed and cost efficiency. By applying these methods, engineers can pinpoint bottlenecks and make data‑driven decisions on model deployment.

NVIDIA joined a coalition of over 200 companies and organizations in signing the “Open Weights and American AI Leadership” letter, underscoring that AI dominance will hinge on an open ecosystem that permeates every industry rather than a single flagship model. The letter calls for widespread sharing of weights, datasets, and model architectures to accelerate innovation across sectors. It signals a strategic shift toward collaborative AI development, positioning NVIDIA as a key enabler of open AI infrastructure. The initiative could reshape how enterprises adopt and adapt large models, demanding new governance and tooling around open model distribution.

Nvidia announced Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a highly customizable large‑language‑model framework, alongside NeMo Switchyard, an agentic AI router that lets enterprises dynamically direct inference traffic across multiple models. The duo is positioned to give organizations granular control over model selection while maintaining a unified deployment surface, though the added routing layer can introduce latency and operational overhead.

NVIDIA has joined the U.S. National Science Foundation's State and Regional Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Hubs program to expand access to AI research and education across the US. The program aims to support state and multistate groups of colleges and universities in strengthening America's AI ecosystem by providing advanced computing, data, software, and expertise. With a focus on sharing AI computing resources and accelerating scientific discovery, the regional hubs will help prepare students to participate in the AI economy. The initiative is expected to have a significant impact on the development of AI infrastructure and workforce development, with NVIDIA's partnership serving as a model for other institutions.

NVIDIA Alpamayo 2 Super, a frontier open model for robotaxis and autonomous vehicles, is now available for commercial use, offering advanced reasoning capabilities and open commercial licensing. The model is part of the Alpamayo family, which supports a wide range of AV-relevant capabilities within a single foundation model. Alpamayo 2 Super is built on NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Super Reasoner and post-trained with reinforcement learning, and it ranks first on LingoQA, an autonomous driving benchmark. This model enables developers to create safer and more transparent AV deployment, with a cloud-to-car workflow that combines frontier-scale reasoning with scalable deployment across commercial AV fleets.

The NVIDIA Jetson platform provides a compact and powerful solution for building AI anywhere, with modules and developer kits that can fit in a handbag. The Jetson Orin Nano Super, in particular, offers 67 trillion operations per second (TOPS) of AI performance, making it ideal for building a first AI robot. This platform enables developers to build, learn, and launch the next generation of intelligent robots, with applications in classrooms, labs, and makerspaces. The practical implication for engineers building AI systems is that they can now develop and deploy AI models in a more portable and efficient manner.