Nvidia has confirmed that its graphics accelerator, which it now calls Hopper Next, will be available next year.

Nvidia hasn’t released any details yet, though we’ve heard before that the company’s next generation of dedicated accelerators will be called Blackwell. There is also data on two GPUs of this generation: GB100 and GB102, which will be produced at 3 nm standards.

You can also see from Nvidia’s graph that the company expects a linear increase in performance relative to the current generation. That is, if we recall that the Nvidia A100 on the Ampere architecture offered a performance of about 20 TFLOPS, and the H100 already provides 60 TFLOPS, then the new solution can overcome the mark of 100 TFLOPS.

Bugatti has teamed up with real estate developer Binghatti to unveil the world’s first Bugatti Residences, located in Dubai’s prestigious Business Bay.

This 46-story building with an unusual design will include 171 apartments and 11 Sky Mansion penthouses, each of which is completely unique and designed to order.

There will be an artificial beach with natural sand, as well as elevator shafts from the underground garage to penthouses, which will allow the powerful of this world to climb cars directly to their apartments, where they can store their cars.

Bugatti Residences owners will receive private pools, a spa jacuzzi, a fitness club, a chef, a personal valet, a private membership club, and two car lifts from the garage to the penthouse. Other personalized services are also provided, including chauffeur and concierge services.

Both penthouses and mansions offer spacious living spaces finished with the finest materials the world has to offer. Bugatti Residences combine comfort, functionality and elegance, reflecting the excellence of Bugatti and Binghatti in design.

Nvidia introduced a product called Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE) for Games, which is needed, among other things, in order to create non-player characters (NPCs) based on artificial intelligence in video games.

ACE is a suite of real-time AI solutions for end-to-end development and deployment of interactive avatars and digital people applications. In this case, we are talking about the creation of characters in games.

Developers of middleware, tools, and games can use ACE for Games to create and deploy custom AI speech, conversation, and animation models in their software and games, according to the press release.

Generative AI has the potential to revolutionize how players interact with playable characters and greatly enhance game immersion. Based on our expertise in AI and years of experience working with game developers, Nvidia is leading the way for Generative AI in games

At the same time, ACE for Games is offered to developers not only in the form of a common set of tools, but also in the form of several ready-made basic models:

• Nvidia NeMo – for building, customizing and deploying language models using proprietary data. Large language models can be customized with character knowledge and backstories and protected from counterproductive or insecure conversations with NeMo Guardrails
• Nvidia Riva – for automatic speech recognition and text-to-speech, allowing for live speech.
• Nvidia Omniverse Audio2Face – for instantly creating expressive face animation of a game character for any speech track

The company notes that its technology will soon appear in several games, including STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl, where the developers use Audio2Face.