
Over the past year, generative AI has transformed the way people live, work and play, enhancing everything from writing and content creation to gaming, learning and productivity. PC enthusiasts and developers are leading the charge in pushing the boundaries of this groundbreaking technology.
Countless times, industry-defining technological breakthroughs have been invented in one place - a garage. This week marks the start of the RTX AI Garage series, which will offer routine content for developers and enthusiasts looking to learn more about NVIDIA NIM microservices and AI Blueprints, and how to build AI agents, creative workflow, digital human, productivity apps and more on AI PCs. Welcome to the RTX AI Garage.
This first installment spotlights announcements made earlier this week at CES, including new AI foundation models available on NVIDIA RTX AI PCs that take digital humans, content creation, productivity and development to the next level.
These models - offered as NVIDIA NIM microservices - are powered by new GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs. Built on the NVIDIA Blackwell architecture, RTX 50 Series GPUs deliver up to 3,352 trillion AI operations per second of performance, 32GB of VRAM and feature FP4 compute, doubling AI inference performance and enabling generative AI to run locally with a smaller memory footprint.
NVIDIA also introduced NVIDIA AI Blueprints - ready-to-use, preconfigured workflows, built on NIM microservices, for applications like digital humans and content creation.
NIM microservices and AI Blueprints empower enthusiasts and developers to build, iterate and deliver AI-powered experiences to the PC faster than ever. The result is a new wave of compelling, practical capabilities for PC users.
Fast-Track AI With NVIDIA NIM There are two key challenges to bringing AI advancements to PCs. First, the pace of AI research is breakneck, with new models appearing daily on platforms like Hugging Face, which now hosts over a million models. As a result, breakthroughs quickly become outdated.
Second, adapting these models for PC use is a complex, resource-intensive process. Optimizing them for PC hardware, integrating them with AI software and connecting them to applications requires significant engineering effort.
NVIDIA NIM helps address these challenges by offering prepackaged, state-of-the-art AI models optimized for PCs. These NIM microservices span model domains, can be installed with a single click, feature application programming interfaces (APIs) for easy integration, and harness NVIDIA AI software and RTX GPUs for accelerated performance.
At CES, NVIDIA announced a pipeline of NIM microservices for RTX AI PCs, supporting use cases spanning large language models (LLMs), vision-language models, image generation, speech, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), PDF extraction and computer vision.
The new Llama Nemotron family of open models provide high accuracy on a wide range of agentic tasks. The Llama Nemotron Nano model, which will be offered as a NIM microservice for RTX AI PCs and workstations, excels at agentic AI tasks like instruction following, function calling, chat, coding and math.
Soon, developers will be able to quickly download and run these microservices on Windows 11 PCs using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).
To demonstrate how enthusiasts and developers can use NIM to build AI agents and assistants, NVIDIA previewed Project R2X, a vision-enabled PC avatar that can put information at a user's fingertips, assist with desktop apps and video conference calls, read and summarize documents, and more. Sign up for Project R2X updates.
By using NIM microservices, AI enthusiasts can skip the complexities of model curation, optimization and backend integration and focus on creating and innovating with cutting-edge AI models.
What's in an API? An API is the way in which an application communicates with a software library. An API defines a set of calls that the application can make to the library and what the application can expect in return. Traditional AI APIs require a lot of setup and configuration, making AI capabilities harder to use and hampering innovation.
NIM microservices expose easy-to-use, intuitive APIs that an application can simply send requests to and get a response. In addition, they're designed around the input and output media for different model types. For example, LLMs take text as input and produce text as output, image generators convert text to image, speech recognizers turn speech to text and so on.
The microservices are designed to integrate seamlessly with leading AI development and agent frameworks such as AI Toolkit for VSCode, AnythingLLM, ComfyUI, Flowise AI, LangChain, Langflow and LM Studio. Developers can easily download and deploy them from build.nvidia.com.
By bringing these APIs to RTX, NVIDIA NIM will accelerate AI innovation on PCs.
Enthusiasts are expected to be able to experience a range of NIM microservices using an upcoming release of the NVIDIA ChatRTX tech demo.
A Blueprint for Innovation By using state-of-the-art models, prepackaged and optimized for PCs, developers and enthusiasts can quickly create AI-powered projects. Taking things a step further, they can combine multiple AI models and other functionality to build complex applications like digital humans, podcast generators and application assistants.
NVIDIA AI Blueprints, built on NIM microservices, are reference implementations for complex AI workflows. They help developers connect several components, including libraries, software development kits and AI models, together in a single application.
AI Blueprints include everything that a developer needs to build, run, customize and extend the reference workflow, which includes the reference application and source code, sample data, and documentation for customization and orchestration of
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