Oh, *Great*. More Nvidia.

Right, so apparently the shiny GPU peddlers at Nvidia decided to have another “launch event” – because they haven’t already saturated the market enough. This time it’s all about “Cosmos,” which is basically a bunch of pre-trained AI models designed to simulate… stuff. Physical stuff. Like robots bumping into things, cars not crashing (hopefully), and factories not exploding. Groundbreaking. Seriously.

They’re throwing around terms like “digital twins” and “foundry validation,” which translates to “we want more data to sell you more processing power.” They’ve also got new chips – Blackwell Ultra, because apparently regular Blackwell wasn’t enough overkill. And some networking crap (NVLink 5) so all these models can talk to each other faster while draining even *more* electricity.

The whole thing is geared towards enterprise customers with deep pockets and a desperate need to automate everything, which means it’s not for you or me. It’s just Nvidia continuing its relentless march toward world domination of the AI hardware space. They also want to build out more cloud infrastructure because *of course* they do.

Basically, if you have money to burn and a problem that can be solved by throwing insane amounts of compute at it, Nvidia has a solution. If not? Well, good luck with your perfectly functional systems, I guess. Don’t bother me about it.

Source: TechCrunch

And a story for ya…

Back in ’98, some idiot tried to run a complex fluid dynamics simulation on a Pentium II. A *Pentium II*. Said it was “good enough.” It crashed so hard it corrupted the BIOS and took three days to recover. Three days! This Cosmos thing? Just more of the same hubris, just with fancier hardware and even bigger potential for catastrophic failure. Don’t tell me about your ‘digital twins’, I’ve seen things.

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