Nvidia vice president says GPUs are the 'currency' of AI researchers

Some of Nvidia's researchers donated their compute to help facilitate a swift rollout of the company's Llama Nemotron models.

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• Nvidia's Llama Nemotron models were developed quickly, said Jonathan Cohen, VP of Applied Research.
• The speed was thanks to researchers across the company being willing to "give up their compute."
• "These days, the currency in any AI researcher is how many GPUs they get access to," he said in an interview.

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