Every country needs to own the production of their own intelligence, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang told attendees Monday at the World Governments Summit in Dubai.

Huang, who spoke as part of a fireside chat with the UAE’s Minister of AI, His Excellency Omar Al Olama, described sovereign AI — which emphasizes a country’s ownership over its data and the intelligence it produces — as an enormous opportunity for the world’s leaders.

“It codifies your culture, your society’s intelligence, your common sense, your history – you own your own data,” Huang told Al Olama during their conversation, a highlight of an event attended by more than 4,000 delegates from 150 countries.

“We completely subscribe to that vision,” Al Olama said. “That’s why the UAE is moving aggressively on creating large language models and mobilizing compute.”

Huang’s appearance in the UAE comes as the Gulf State is moving rapidly to transform itself from an energy powerhouse into a global information technology hub.

Dubai is the latest stop for Huang in a global tour that has included meetings with leaders in Canada, France, India, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam over the past six months.

The Middle East is poised to reap significant benefits from AI, with PwC projecting a $320 billion boost to the region’s economy by 2030.

At Monday’s summit, Huang urged leaders not to be “mystified” by AI. AI’s unprecedented ability to take directions from ordinary humans makes it critical for countries to embrace AI, infusing it with local languages and expertise.

In response to Al Olama’s question about how he might approach AI if he were the leader of a developing nation, Huang emphasized the importance of building infrastructure.

“It’s not that costly, it is also not that hard,” Huang said. “The first thing that I would do, of course, is I would codify the language, the data of your culture into your own large language model.”

And as AI and accelerated computing has developed, NVIDIA GPUs have become a platform for one innovation after another.

“NVIDIA GPU is the only platform that’s available to everybody on any platform,” Huang said. “This ubiquity has not only democratized AI but facilitated a wave of innovation that spans from cloud computing to autonomous systems and beyond.

All of this promises to unleash new kinds of innovations that go beyond what’s traditionally been thought of as information technology.

Huang even countered advice offered by many visionaries over the years who urged young people to study computer science in order to compete in the information age. No longer.

“In fact, it’s almost exactly the opposite,” Huang said. “It is our job to create computing technologies that nobody has to program and that the programming language is human: everybody in the world is now a programmer — that is the miracle.”

In a move that further underscores the regional momentum behind AI, Moro Hub, a subsidiary of Digital DEWA, the digital arm of the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority, focused on providing cloud services, cybersecurity and smart city solutions, announced Monday it has agreed to build a green data center with NVIDIA.

In addition to the fireside chat, the summit featured panels on smart mobility, sustainable development and more, showcasing the latest in AI advancements. Later in the evening, Huang and Al Olama took the stage at the ‘Get Inspired’ ecosystem event, organized by the UAE’s AI Office, featuring 280 attendees including developers, start-ups, and others.

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Dell Technologies announced a portfolio of new generative AI solutions expanding upon its Project Helix joint initiative with Nvidia, spanning IT infrastructure, PCs and professional services. 

With the generative AI capabilities, Dell’s portfolio (including Dell Precision workstations, Dell PowerEdge servers, Dell PowerScale scale-out storage, Dell ECS enterprise object storage and a broad set of services) provide enterprises the tools to deliver GenAI solutions from desktops to core data centers, edge locations and public clouds, said the company. 

As part of the portfolio, the company also came up with its Validated Design for Generative AI, an inferencing blueprint, jointly engineered with Nvidia. Validated Designs are tested and proven configurations, designed from the start to dynamically fit needs based on specific use cases. 

According to the company, until now, traditional inferencing approaches have been challenged to scale and support LLMs for real-time results and ensure data can be easily used by AI infrastructure. The new solution helps customers generate higher quality, faster time-to-value predictions and decisions with their own data. 

With a comprehensive verified inferencing approach, organizations can rapidly deploy GenAI projects and scale applications to transform processes in key areas, such as customer operations, content creation and management, software development and sales.

Additionally, Dell Professional Services deliver new capabilities to help customers accelerate GenAI adoption, starting with identifying high value use cases and a roadmap to achieve them. 

On the hardware front, Dell’s new Precision workstations allow AI developers and data scientists to develop and fine-tune GenAI models locally before deploying at scale. Precision workstations provide the performance and reliability – with up to four NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation GPUs in a single workstation – to run AI software frameworks 80% faster than the previous generation, said the company.

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Snowflake and NVIDIA announced that they are partnering to provide businesses with a platform to create customized generative AI applications using their own proprietary data in the Snowflake Data Cloud. The announcement came today at Snowflake Summit 2023.

With NVIDIA NeMo platform for developing large language models (LLMs) and NVIDIA GPU-accelerated computing, Snowflake customers can use data in their Snowflake accounts to make custom LLMs for advanced generative AI services, including chatbots, search and summarization. Snowflake plans to host and run NeMo in the Data Cloud. 

“Snowflake’s partnership with NVIDIA will bring high performance machine learning and artificial intelligence to our vast volumes of proprietary and structured enterprise data, a new frontier to bringing unprecedented insights, predictions and prescriptions to the global world of business,” said Frank Slootman, chairman and CEO, Snowflake.

“Data is essential to creating generative AI applications that understand the complex operations and unique voice of every company,” said Jensen Huang, Founder and CEO, NVIDIA. “Together, NVIDIA and Snowflake will create an AI factory that helps enterprises turn their own valuable data into custom generative AI models to power groundbreaking new applications — right from the cloud platform that they use to run their businesses.”

The partnership will enable customers to use their proprietary data — which can range from hundreds of terabytes to petabytes of raw and curated business information — to create and fine-tune custom LLMs that power business-specific applications and services. 

The companies maintain that the integration of AI technology from Snowflake and NVIDIA will enable users to quickly build generative AI apps for a number of business use cases. For example, a healthcare insurance model could answer complex questions about what procedures are covered under various plans. A financial services model could share details about specific lending opportunities available to retail and business customers based on a variety of circumstances. 

Another advantage, according to Snowflake, is the ability to create these apps where the governed data already resides – a benefit that reduces cost and latency while maintaining the security of the data. 

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