Nvidia’s Chips Power the Supercomputer That Could Change AI

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The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 24 January 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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A few months ago, AI supercomputer Gefion was plugged in for the first time in a ceremony featuring the Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, the King of Denmark and Nadia Carlsten, the CEO of the Danish Centre for AI Innovation. Carlsten and Mads Krogsgaard Thomsen, CEO of the Novo Nordisk Foundation, join WSJ’s Ben Cohen to discuss what they hope to achieve with 1,500 of the most powerful graphics processing units on the planet, including innovations in drug discovery, protein design and digital biology. What do you think about the show? Let us know on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or email us: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.2	Late last year, at a ceremony featuring both the King of Denmark, Frederick the 10th, and the King
0:37.3	of Artificial Intelligence,
0:38.8	NVIDIA CEO Jensen Wong, a very powerful supercomputer was plugged in for the first time.
0:45.1	Hello, humans. My name is Kifian. I am a supercomputer created to serve and assist you.
0:51.6	I've been trained on billions of data points, and I learn from you.
0:55.0	Standing between those two kings was the woman in charge of this AI supercomputer, Nadia Carlston.
1:05.0	She's the CEO of the Danish Center for AI Innovation, or DCAI. It was established as a joint venture between chipmaker
1:12.3	and Vida, the Novo Nordus Foundation, and the Export and Investment Fund of Denmark.
1:18.0	The DCAI gives both public and private sectors in Denmark access to Geffian for ambitious,
1:24.4	large-scale AI projects that could have global impact.
1:28.4	Think new drug discovery, mass weather prediction, and modeling molecules.
1:33.9	Carlston, who spent much of her career in tech management and quantum computing,
1:38.0	has high hopes for Gepheon and its 1,528 GPUs or graphics processing units, the advanced computer chips
1:46.4	NVIDIA is known for.
1:47.7	There's so much you can do.
1:50.6	It's almost the question should be what can't you do with it?
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