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Welcome to Big Technology Podcast, a show for cool-headed, nuanced conversation of the tech world

and beyond. We have a great conversation for you today. We're going deep inside

Nvidia with Brian Katanzaro. He's the vice president of applied deep learning research

at invidia and he's going to be speaking at the company's forthcoming gt c conference march 18th

and 21 in san jose and his conversation is going to be specifically on practical AI agents

that reason and code at scale so So if you're in the area,

you're thinking about heading out, you can mark that down. But let's get to the conversation.

Brian, welcome to the show. Thanks. I'm glad to be here. Great to have you. You're kind of the

guy that kicked off this whole AI push within Nvidia. Well, you know, it took a whole company

to transform Nvidia into what it is today. So

there's tens of thousands of people that deserve a lot of credit. But I was honored to be one of the

people that helped Nvidia get started a long time ago. What is exactly happening within your

company? What do you offer that allows anyone that wants to

build AI and then run AI models to do it effectively? Invitya is an accelerated computing company.

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