NVIDIA
Announces New AI Partners, Courses, Initiatives to Deliver Deep Learning
Training Worldwide

SINGAPORE—November 1, 2017—NVIDIA today announced a broad expansion
of its Deep Learning Institute (DLI),
which is training tens of thousands of students, developers and data scientists
with critical skills needed to apply artificial intelligence (AI).  

The expansion includes: 

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New partnerships with Booz Allen Hamilton and
deeplearning.ai to train thousands of students, developers and government
specialists in AI. 

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New University Ambassador Program enables
instructors worldwide to teach students critical job skills and practical
applications of AI at no cost.

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New courses designed to teach domain-specific
applications of deep learning for finance, natural language processing,
robotics, video analytics, and self-driving cars.

 

“The world faces an acute shortage of data scientists and
developers who are proficient in deep learning, and we’re focused on addressing
that need,” said Greg Estes, vice president of

Developer Programs at NVIDIA. “As part of the company’s
effort to democratise AI, the Deep Learning Institute is enabling more
developers, researchers and data scientists to apply this powerful technology
to solve difficult problems.”

DLI – which NVIDIA formed last
year to provide hands-on and online training worldwide in AI – is already
working with more than 20 partners, including Amazon Web Services, Coursera,
Facebook, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM, Microsoft, and Udacity. 

Today the company is announcing a
collaboration with deeplearning.ai, a new venture formed by AI pioneer Andrew
Ng with the mission of training AI experts across a wide range of industries.
The companies are working on new machine translation training materials as part
of Coursera’s Deep Learning Specialization, which will be available later this
month.

“AI is the new electricity, and will change almost
everything we do,” said Ng, who also helped found Coursera, and was research
chief at Baidu. “Partnering with the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute to develop
materials for our course on sequence models allows us to make the latest advances
in deep learning available to everyone.”

DLI is also teaming with Booz
Allen Hamilton to train employees and government personnel, including members
of the U.S. Air Force. DLI and Booz Allen Hamilton will provide hands-on
training for data scientists to solve challenging problems in healthcare,
cybersecurity and defense. 

To help teach students practical
AI techniques to improve their job skills and prepare them to take on difficult
computing challenges, the new NVIDIA University Ambassador Program prepares
college instructors to teach DLI courses to their students at no cost. NVIDIA
is already working with professors at several universities, including Arizona
State, Harvard, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and UCLA.  

DLI is also bringing free AI
training to young people through organisations like AI4ALL, a nonprofit
organisation that works to increase diversity and inclusion. AI4ALL gives high
school students early exposure to AI, mentors and career development. 

“NVIDIA is helping to amplify and
extend our work that enables young people to learn technical skills, get
exposure to career opportunities in AI and use the technology in ways that
positively impact their communities,” said Tess Posner, executive director at
AI4ALL.

In addition, DLI is expanding the range of
its training content with: 

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New project-based
curriculum to train Udacity’s Self–Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree students in advanced deep learning techniques as well as
upcoming new projects to help students create deep learning applications in the
robotics field around the world.

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New AI hands-on training labs in natural
language processing, intelligent video analytics and financial trading.

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A full-day self-driving car workshop,
“Perception for Autonomous Vehicles,” available later this month. Students will
learn how to integrate input from visual sensors and implement perception
through training, optimization and deployment of a neural network. 

To increase availability of AI
training worldwide, DLI recently signed new training delivery partnerships with
Skyline ATS in the U.S., Boston in the U.K. and Emmersive in India. 

More information is available at
the DLI website, where
individuals can sign up for in-person or self-paced online training.

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NVIDIA’s (NASDAQ: NVDA) invention of the GPU in
1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer
graphics and revolutionised parallel computing. More recently, GPU deep
learning ignited modern AI — the next era of computing — with the GPU acting as
the brain of computers, robots and self-driving cars that can perceive and
understand the world. More information at http://nvidianews.nvidia.com/.