?? Foxconn and NVIDIA poised to build "AI factories"
At the fourth Hon Hai Tech Day, 富士康 and 英伟达 announced how they plan to reshape the AI landscape, setting new benchmarks for innovation. Kwangyin Liu 劉光瑩 , CommonWealth English 天下雜誌英文網 editor.
Why is Foxconn building "AI factories" with Nvidia?
By MengHsuan Yang
During the Hon Hai Technology Group (Foxconn) Tech Day on Oct. 18th, Foxconn Chairman Young Liu (劉揚偉) and Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang (黃仁勳) made a grand entrance by driving on-stage in a Model B electric vehicle.?
The highlight came when Huang projected his hand-drawn sketch of his vision of an "AI factory" on the big screen. He explained that Nvidia's partnership with Foxconn has progressed from providing AI servers to designing AI solutions powered by Nvidia's cutting-edge GH200 AI chip.
What is an "AI factory"?
The concept of an "AI factory" may sound similar to smart factories and Industry 4.0, but it's actually something completely different.?
An AI factory doesn't build things with AI. Instead, it manufactures AI solutions and other "smart" products.?
According to Nvidia, the AI factory is an Nvidia GPU computing infrastructure specially built for processing, refining, and transforming vast amounts of data into valuable AI models.?
On the piece of notepaper displayed by Huang, there's an electric vehicle on one side with AI at the wheel, which can navigate the roads and interact with humans on its own; and on the other side, there's an AI factory that receives a continuous stream of data from the electric car, which it uses to develop a plethora of new software that's more suited to the electric vehicle's needs.
"An AI factory ingests information and produces intelligence," says Huang excitedly. This is a whole new method to design software—by using supercomputers to design software in ways that humans can't.?
Liu adds that an electric vehicle is outfitted with many sensors that collect data and convert it to tokens. The AI factory processes the tokens and produces better software, AI models, and solutions that will make electric cars more intelligent.?
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