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Erik Pounds

Erik Pounds is a director of product marketing at NVIDIA, where he’s focused on data science and edge computing platforms. Prior to NVIDIA, Erik led marketing at SwiftStack, and he has held numerous leadership roles in product management throughout his career at companies including EMC, Brocade, Drobo and BitTorrent. Erik holds a Bachelor of Science in business administration from the University of San Francisco.

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DeepSeek-R1 Now Live With NVIDIA NIM

DeepSeek-R1 Now Live With NVIDIA NIM

DeepSeek-R1 is an open model with state-of-the-art reasoning capabilities. Instead of offering direct responses, AI models like DeepSeek-R1 perform reasoning through the chain-of-thought method to generate the best answer. Performing...

What Is Agentic AI? 

What Is Agentic AI? 

Editor’s note: The name of NIM Agent Blueprints was changed to NVIDIA Blueprints in October 2024. All references to the name have been updated in this blog. AI chatbots use generative...