NVIDIA's 'RTX Spark' Lands in Korea; LebUp CEO Is First Buyer

NVIDIA's on-device AI platform, 'RTX Spark,' has launched in Korea. The first buyer is known to be the CEO of LebUp. NVIDIA held the 'RTX Spark Launch Event' and introduced the product's role along with the launch announcement.

At the event, NC Vice President Bae Jae-hyun and NVIDIA Vice President Keita Ida took the stage to speak. At the event, NVIDIA Vice President Keita Ida explained the role of the on-device platform, 'RTX Spark (RTX Spark),' and said that an era of ubiquitous personal assistants is arriving.

NVIDIA Vice President Keita Ida presented security, privacy, and cost as the key elements of on-device execution. He explained that running AI agents on the device itself prevents data from being leaked externally and keeps it private. He also noted that tokens are free when running AI.

NVIDIA Vice President Keita Ida said that the supercomputer that led the AI revolution 8 years ago weighed 500 pounds and cost $250,000. He went on to emphasize the expanding accessibility of AI, saying that in less than 10 years, AI computing at that level has come into people's hands in the form of thin and light laptops.

Bae Jae-hyun, NC Vice President, who has worked with NVIDIA since 2001, discussed AI as seen in development settings and described perceptions of AI based on his partnership history and experience on the development floor. He said he believed there are differing views regarding the use of AI.

Bae said AI removes the limits of creators' imagination and is a major help to creativity. NC said it is currently developing its own Korean foundation model.

Bae explained that AI is also being used in game development. He said AI is being used for world generation, as well as to quickly create NPCs that think like humans, and that AI is being applied in a variety of other ways as well.

For the long-term outlook, Bae predicted that 25 years from now, it may eventually become possible to scan the brain, upload it to a server, and work, make games, and play within it. He then presented the near future, 1-2 years ahead, as a form in which games and high-load graphics run smoothly on high-performance terminals, and said that this is the closest vision of the future of games.

A demonstration was held on-site. The device used was a thin laptop running on battery power with no power adapter connected. In the demo, performance above 100 fps was maintained while high-resolution graphics and AI technology were in use.

Based on this demonstration, Vice President Keita said that what is being developed, and the device capable of running all agents, is a single thin and light laptop. He emphasized that one thin laptop can handle multiple development tasks and agent-based work.

Next, the same on-site event featured an interview with the first domestic buyer of 'RTX Spark.' The first domestic buyer of 'RTX Spark' was Shin Jeong-gyu, CEO of LebUp. LebUp is in the business of developing GPU infrastructure management solutions.

Shin said he decided to buy it immediately on-site because it was originally a product he intended to purchase. He also cited the portability of an existing high-performance work environment as its biggest appeal.

The photo shows Shin Jeong-gyu, CEO of LebUp, during the first buyer interview. The photo credit goes to reporter Kwon Young-seok.

In additional remarks, future directions for technology application were presented, and the speaker said the company plans to study integration with its AI platform. The speaker then explained that they plan to seriously research ways to connect several thousand GPU infrastructures.

Source: IT DAILY · Kwon Young-seok
Original: https://www.itdaily.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=242262

References

• https://www.itdaily.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=242262