NVIDIA CEO Hands out Special CEO Edition Titan V GPUs to AI Researchers
At the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference in Salt Lake City Wednesday, NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang told top AI researchers he wanted to help them achieve a very different kind of peak performance — before unveiling a big surprise, a 32GB CEO edition Titan V.
“The number of problems you guys are able to solve as a result of deep learning is truly amazing,” Huang said, addressing more than 500 guests at NVIDIA’s “best of Utah” themed CVPR bash at the Grand America Hotel. “We’ve dedicated our company to create a computing platform to advance your work. Our goal is to enable you to do amazing research.”
Then he sprung his first surprise on the crowd. Huang called up 12 teams of researchers and presented each with an NVIDIA Pioneer Awards. The awards went to those who’ve used NVIDIA’s AI platform to support great work featured in papers accepted by CVPR and other leading academic conferences. Wednesday night’s award recipients were an elite group, representing some of the leading academic institutions that participate in the global NVIDIA AI Labs (NVAIL) program. Honorees included researchers from the Chinese Academy of Science, DFKI, Peking University, Stanford University, Tsinghua University, University of Toronto, University of Tokyo and University of Washington.
Titans for the Titans of AI
Twenty guests selected at random joined Huang in the hotel’s center courtyard. There he presented them with signed, limited edition NVIDIA Titan V CEO Edition GPUs, featuring our groundbreaking NVIDIA Volta Tensor Cores and loaded with 32 gigabytes of memory. Among the lucky ones was AI researcher Fabio Ramos, from the University of Sydney who is doing groundbreaking work in the field of robotics. “My work is focused on helping robots make decisions autonomously. I hope to use this to help advance my work to help robots take care of elderly people,” he said, as other guests noshed on chicken sandwiches prepared by Food Network star Viet Pham. While the food and drinks — which included green jello, a nod to Utah tradition — had guests buzzing, researchers were even more eager to dig into their new GPUs.
The limited edition GPU is built on top of NVIDIA’s breakthrough Volta platform. It features our revolutionary Tensor Core architecture to enable multi-precision computing. It can crank through deep learning matrix operations at 125 teraflops at FP16 precision. Or it can blast through FP64 and FP32 operations when there’s a need for greater range, precision or numerical stability.
With 20 of their peers equipped with some of our most powerful GPUs to accelerate their work, these won’t be the last to be so honored.
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Nvidia should start making some descent drivers again. The used to care about working on performance gains in games and fixing things wrong. Most people dont care and just give them more reason too not care. I hope intel and AMD hurt them real bad right were it hurts in there wallet Than this cocky bastard will shut his mouth and get to work
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I know Huang is really full of himself but seriously... CEO edition Titan V for elite researchers? That must be the most pretentious thing he's done. Someone really needs to keep his ego in check.
Don't get me wrong - I think these Titan Vs make for a great gift that should go toward great things, but he doesn't need to elevate his significance or pat himself on the back while doing it. They could've just called it "Special Edition" and replace "Elite" with really any positive-describing word that isn't so classist. The signature is fine.
I couldn't help but think of Silicon Valley...

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He is not afraid of anything, Nvidia is far far away ahead of both Intel and AMD in GPU technologies as a whole. He is laughing at them. Do any of you here remember his "Laughabee" reference for intel's larrabee failure? Radeon technologies for more than a decade is Nvidia's bitch. Huang is the absolute authority and emperor of AI and Graphics based in GPU architecture and it is unlikely to change in the foreseeable future. This is the reality, numbers talk. Everything else is fanboy-ism and inferiority complex against green empire.
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I know Huang is really full of himself but seriously... CEO edition Titan V for elite researchers? That must be the most pretentious thing he's done. Someone really needs to keep his ego in check.
Don't get me wrong - I think these Titan Vs make for a great gift that should go toward great things, but he doesn't need to elevate his significance or pat himself on the back while doing it. They could've just called it "Special Edition" and replace "Elite" with really any positive-describing word that isn't so classist. The signature is fine.
It seems you are reading this wrong.
Jen said nothing about these people being elite; check any other article and you'll see none of them mention anything about these 'elites'.
It's just a word used to fluff this article up.
He gave away 20 full GV100 GPUs for free and you are calling him pretentious.. lol
Lastly, marketing is fully responsible for naming conventions of products, not Jen
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I know Huang is really full of himself but seriously... CEO edition Titan V for elite researchers? That must be the most pretentious thing he's done. Someone really needs to keep his ego in check.
Don't get me wrong - I think these Titan Vs make for a great gift that should go toward great things, but he doesn't need to elevate his significance or pat himself on the back while doing it. They could've just called it "Special Edition" and replace "Elite" with really any positive-describing word that isn't so classist. The signature is fine.