NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang personally handed over the world's first DGX H200 system to OpenAI

In parallel with the explosion of the Artificial Intelligence field, NVIDIA has earned a lot of money in the past year from companies such as Microsoft, OpenAI and a series of other technology giants thanks to high-end GPU supply contracts for Potentially innovative AI field. Following that success, NVIDIA today officially handed over the world's first DGX H200 AI workstation system to OpenAI. CEO Jensen Huang himself participated in 'escorting' this technological wonder to OpenAI's headquarters.

In a post on social media platform X, OpenAI President and Co-Founder Greg Brockman, revealed that his company has finally officially adopted NVIDIA's most powerful product. This deal is so important and meaningful that NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang was directly involved in the process of shipping and handing over the first commercial DGX H200 system to OpenAI's counterparts. .

Before diving into what the DGX H200 has to offer, let's discuss the momentum this product brings to the global technology sector as a whole. Aside from the fact that OpenAI now has exclusive access to the world's most powerful AI systems, it's interesting to see companies entering an increasingly tough battle to acquire these systems. superior hardware, thereby gaining a competitive advantage in the development, testing and deployment of software services.

Lately, the tech world has been talking about Blackwell GPUs and how Meta is eagerly taking the first orders of the next-generation architecture, even though the product has not yet been released to the mass market. . OpenAI is also promoting investment in building giant data centers with a proposed valuation of up to trillions of dollars. In addition, there are many other giants who are sparing no expense in the AI ​​field, following the huge demand for high-quality hardware.

This context follows two main perspectives. The first is that the competition between companies in the future is not about revenue, but about the computing power they have. Second, the man standing in the middle in the photo above, who always wears the iconic leather jacket, will become one of the most powerful men in the tech world for quite some time to come. , because every company out there thinks of NVIDIA first when it comes to developing anything related to AI. This is a no-brainer because the powerful ecosystem that 'Team Green' offers to its customers is amazing.

Returning to the DGX H200, this beast of a machine is powered by the power of the HBM3E. It has a memory capacity of up to 141GB and a peak bandwidth of 4.8 TB/s, which is 2.4 times and double the capacity of the previous version. The superiority of the H200 is almost unrivaled in the current market, with the ability to deliver almost double the performance in AI applications such as MLPerf v4.0.

Interestingly, the DGX H200 is based on the Hopper architecture which has been inherited by the new Blackwell B100/B200 GPU. These next-generation AI chips deliver greater performance and AI capabilities, and we will likely see commercial products hit the market later this year.

Isabella Humphrey

Update 26 April 2024