Rick Merritt

Rick Merritt is a staff writer at NVIDIA. Previously, he worked as a reporter and editor at "EE Times" for 28 years and served as managing editor of "Asian Computer Monthly" based in Hong Kong.

A foundation supporting a highway acts as a metaphor for a foundation AI model

What Are Foundation Models?

Editor’s note: This article, originally published on March 13, 2023, has been updated. The mics were live and tape was rolling in the studio where the Miles Davis Quintet was… Read Article

NVIDIA artist's concept of retrieval-augmented generation aka RAG

What Is Retrieval-Augmented Generation, aka RAG?

Editor’s note: This article, originally published on Nov. 15, 2023, has been updated. To understand the latest advancements in generative AI, imagine a courtroom. Judges hear and decide cases based… Read Article

Jensen Huang in fireside chat at the Edison Electric Institute

Light Bulb Moment: NVIDIA CEO Sees Bright Future for AI-Powered Electric Grid

The electric grid and the utilities managing it have an important role to play in the next industrial revolution that’s being driven by AI and accelerated computing, said NVIDIA founder… Read Article

‘Create a Data Flywheel With AI,’ NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Tells Attendees at Snowflake Summit

AI gives every company an opportunity to turn its processes into a data flywheel, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang told thousands of attendees Monday at the Snowflake Data Cloud… Read Article

Image from Wistron's digital twin of a testing room

Model Innovators: How Digital Twins Are Making Industries More Efficient

A manufacturing plant near Hsinchu, Taiwan’s Silicon Valley, is among facilities worldwide boosting energy efficiency with AI-enabled digital twins. A virtual model can help streamline operations, maximizing throughput for its… Read Article

NVIDIA, Huang Win Top Honors in Innovation, Engineering

NVIDIA today was named the world’s most innovative company by Fast Company magazine. The accolade comes on the heels of company founder and CEO Jensen Huang being inducted into the… Read Article

NVIDIA text-to-speech team wins LIMMITS '24 Challenge

Speak Like a Native: NVIDIA Parlays Win in Voice Challenge

Thanks to their work driving AI forward, Akshit Arora and Rafael Valle could someday speak to their spouses’ families in their native languages. Arora and Valle — along with colleagues… Read Article

Buried Treasure: Startup Mines Clean Energy’s Prospects With Digital Twins

Mark Swinnerton aims to fight climate change by transforming abandoned mines into storage tanks of renewable energy. The CEO of startup Green Gravity is prototyping his ambitious vision in a… Read Article

Cool Robots of 2023: Meet the Autonomous Movers and Shakers

Outside the glare of the klieg lights that ChatGPT commanded this year, a troupe of autonomous machines nudged the frontiers of robotics forward. Here are six that showed special prowess… Read Article