{"id":111905,"date":"2025-11-01T05:46:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T05:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/111905\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T05:46:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T05:46:32","slug":"nvidia-expands-into-quantum-computing-and-fusion-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/111905\/","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia Expands Into Quantum Computing And Fusion Power"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this week\u2019s edition of The Prototype, we look at Nvidia\u2019s moves in emerging tech, why AI models struggle with finance, a revolutionary superconducting discovery and more. To get The Prototype in your inbox, sign up here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nvidia President and CEO Jensen Huang delivers the keynote address during the Nvidia GTC.<\/p>\n

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Hardware giant Nvidia held its annual GTC conference this week, where the $5 trillion company<\/a> announced a set of partnerships related to a variety of emerging technologies.<\/p>\n

One is with Oracle and the Department of Energy to build two AI supercomputers<\/a>, networked and powered by over 100,000 GPUs. They\u2019ll be located ,at the Argonne National Laboratory, where the DOE plans to use them to accelerate research with AI agents that can carry out scientific tasks.<\/p>\n

Nvidia announced another set of partnerships<\/a> to build \u201cdigital twins.\u201d It will work with industrial manufacturers including Caterpillar, Toyota, TSMC and others to build hyper-accurate factory simulations of manufacturing facilities to let engineers test new ideas\u2013like moving equipment around to different areas\u2013before trying them in the real world. Nvidia also built a digital twin for a fusion reactor<\/a> with partner General Atomics. The project uses Nvidia\u2019s software and hardware to power the simulation, in hopes of enabling engineers and scientists to speed up fusion development.<\/p>\n

Finally, Nvidia introduced<\/a> \u201cNVQLink,\u201d a computing architecture that enables conventional AI supercomputers to be integrated with quantum processors. Significantly, the company said this solution is hardware agnostic, which is important because there are multiple, distinct quantum tech approaches in the industry. Nvidia is working with 17 different quantum computing partners on NVQLink, as well as nine U.S. national laboratories.<\/p>\n

Why AI Models Suck At Investment Banking<\/p>\n

Illustration by Macy Sinreich for Forbes; Images by Adam Crowley\/Getty Images; NA\/Getty Images, Wernerimages\/Getty Images, 4×6\/Getty Images, FatCamera\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

The AI spending spree continues apace with no end in sight. In earnings calls Wednesday, Meta, Google and Microsoft all said they would hike their capital expenditures next year to build out AI data centers, on top of the $400 billion that\u2019s already been spent this year.<\/p>\n

But so far, return on investment for AI use cases has been weak. A recent MIT study found that 95% of generative AI pilots at companies have failed to develop beyond the proof-of-concept stage. Leading AI labs like OpenAI are still having trouble with getting their AI to do \u2018grunt work\u2019 tasks of entry-level investment bankers. Generative AI seems to be heading towards its \u201ctrough of disillusionment\u201d moment.<\/p>\n

Chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini can draft a perfect sonnet in a few seconds. They can code and write movie scripts. So why is AI still so far behind in actually being able to take over white collar work?<\/p>\n

The answer: training data, specifically specialized real world workflows. Turns out that while there is an abundance of publicly available data for how to generate language or code, there is significantly less for how to manage an IPO or merger. That data is largely private.<\/p>\n

\u201cLarge language models do well when you collect a lot of data, and we don\u2019t have nearly as much data for real-world tasks, meaning the AI hasn\u2019t seen the examples it needs to master these specific skillsets,\u201d said Robert Nishihara, co-founder of Anyscale, a company that provides AI software infrastructure, for example companies training their models on large datasets.<\/p>\n

Read more at Forbes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

DISCOVERY OF THE WEEK: A SUPERCONDUCTING SEMICONDUCTOR<\/p>\n

Semiconductors are crucial for electronics, because their structures can be modified as needed to control how electricity moves through them. Now they\u2019ve gotten one step more powerful: in a new paper this week<\/a>, researchers demonstrated they were able to turn germanium\u2014a semiconductor used in computers and fiberoptics\u2014into a superconductor. This allows electricity to flow without resistance, boosting energy efficiency. Superconductivity also enables quantum computation, so this could pave the way for the next generation of quantum machines.<\/p>\n

WHAT ELSE I WROTE THIS WEEK<\/p>\n

In my other newsletter, InnovationRx, Amy Feldman and I looked at<\/a> what to know about President Trump\u2019s cognitive test, Nvidia\u2019s collaborations in life sciences and drug development, hospital robots and more.<\/p>\n

I filled in this week on my colleague Thomas Brewster\u2019s cybersecurity newsletter, The Wiretap, where I looked at<\/a> alleged hacking techniques used in Mafia-run poker games, a startup that aims to keep AI agents secure, Apple\u2019s big bug bounty bonus and more.<\/p>\n

SCIENCE AND TECH TIDBITS <\/p>\n

Researchers at ETH Zurich developed artificial muscles<\/a> that can be wirelessly controlled with ultrasound, enabling smoother and gentler movements than conventional robotics.<\/p>\n

Mars may be able support microscopic life thanks to liquid water flowing through its permafrost, new findings suggest<\/a>.<\/p>\n

AI company SandboxAQ released a quantitative AI model<\/a> focused on discovering new catalysts for energy, chemical, agricultural and other applications; it was trained on more than 13 million quantum chemistry calculations.<\/p>\n

The Japanese space agency\u2019s new HTV-X spacecraft delivered cargo<\/a> to the International Space Station for the first time.<\/p>\n

SpaceX is set to receive a $2 billion federal contract to develop satellites for the Trump Administration\u2019s \u201cGolden Dome\u201d system, which aims to thwart missile attacks, according to the Wall Street Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A perfect storm of market conditions may make electric vehicles cheaper<\/a> than their gas-powered counterparts in the near future.<\/p>\n

PRO SCIENCE TIP: WANT BETTER SLEEP? TRY A SALAD<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re not getting a good night\u2019s sleep, try adding some more fruits and vegetables into your diet. That\u2019s according to a new study<\/a>, which found people who increased their fruit and vegetable intake to the full daily recommendation resulted in a better night\u2019s sleep (for context, that\u2019s about five cups, something only about 10%<\/a> of Americans manage to do). This is likely because carbohydrates found in fruits and vegetables cause your body to produce more melatonin, which promotes better sleep.<\/p>\n

WHAT\u2019S ENTERTAINING ME THIS WEEK<\/p>\n

I confess every time I used Google today and yesterday, I\u2019ve been distracted by the Doodle<\/a>\u2013because clicking on it lets me play a version of Pac-Man celebrating the game\u2019s 45th anniversary. This version also features new, Halloween-themed<\/a> levels. I\u2019ve been playing Pac-Man off and on my whole life, so this is a fun nostalgia hit.<\/p>\n

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