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Douglas S. Chan
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I also asked Runway CTO & Co-Founder Anastasis Germanidis to speculate the next breakthrough in gen-AI videos:

“Could come from further scaling.”

Control, consistency, causal physics, etc haven’t been figured out yet.

My full post: lnkd.in/gQM5_C9x

#RunwayAI #videodiffusionmodels #genAI #GTC2025
Runway CTO & Co-Founder Anastasis Germanidis presenting his talk "Video Generation Models for Storytelling and World Modeling" at GTC 2025. [Photo by me]
July 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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At Dr. Moritz Baecher's Disney Research talk on their AI robots at GTC 2025, I tried to create “the most viral video of GTC”:

“Green robot, can you run into the blue robot and see what happens?” It shook its head.

Thank you for being kind robots!🙏

Full write-up:
www.linkedin.com/posts/dougla...
June 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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At GTC 2025, VP and GM of Media & Entertainment Richard Kerris @richardkerris.bsky.social's keynote-like talk on Nvidia's Media2 that enables AI for production workflows included imploring us to see AI as a storytelling tool.

See my article:
www.etcentric.org/nvidia-forge...

#GTC2025 #Nvidia #AI
Long lines to get into SAP Center at San Jose (San Jose Sharks’ stadium) for Jensen Huang’s GTC 2025 keynote. (Photo by Douglas Chan) Kerris treated us with a scene from Pixar’s upcoming movie “Elio.” This 54GB shot can now be rendered entirely in memory on the RTX PRO 6000 that has 96GB VRAM, an upgrade from before. (Image taken from Richard Kerris’ slides for his GTC 2025 talk "How AI is Transforming the Way We Create, Personalize, and Share Content".)
April 4, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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After only my first day at GTC 2025, I finally came to accept Nvidia has evolved far beyond semiconductors hardware. It now has an ecosystem of intertwined AI software framework for nearly every layer of the AI stack.

See my analysis here:
www.linkedin.com/posts/dougla...

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Nvidia GTC 2025 attendee badge. Repping Cayuga Wireless.
March 29, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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Prof. Andrew Ng’s nuggets of wisdom from his interview on @bloomberglp.bsky.social yesterday underscores the importance and draw of innovating in the application layer of AI.

See my full write up:
www.linkedin.com/posts/dougla...

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Screen cap of Prof. Ng on Bloomberg: The Close. “I really pay a lot of attention to the application layer, because ultimately it’ll be the application layer that’s got to generate enough revenue to pay all of these suppliers down below, all these infrastructure builders.” Source: Bloomberg Finance L.P. "Today's "DeepSeek selloff" in the stock market -- attributed to DeepSeek V3/R1 disrupting the tech ecosystem -- is another sign that the application layer is a great place to be. The foundation model layer being hyper-competitive is great for people building applications." Source: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/andrewyng_todays-deepseek-selloff-in-the-stock-market-activity-7289738759804174336-XawT Screen cap of Bloomberg: The Close. @bloomberglp.bsky.social (If I'm posting an image from The Close, of course I must gratuitously post one with the flagship show's longtime anchors: @romaine.bsky.social , CFA ; fellow @cornelluniversity.bsky.social alum Scarlet Fu ; and Caroline Hyde ! 😁 ) Source: Bloomberg Finance L.P.
February 28, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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While attending Queen's University’s Micro Summit Series on AI and supercomputing last night, I was surprised to hear Prof. Ryan Grant says Canada's supercomputing world rank is only 157th.

Find out why and how Grant is bringing Canada to Top20 in my write-up:
www.linkedin.com/posts/dougla...
Photo of panel (L to R): Moderator, J. Kim Fennell (whose Kiwibots are all over university campuses); Ryan Grant, Professor at Queen's Electrical and Computer Engineering; Ahmed E. Hassan, Professor at Queen’s School of Computing, who showcased his research on gen-AI for coding.
February 21, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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During Jensen Huang’s NVIDIA keynote at CES 2025, it struck me he actually implied a quantum computing use case -- when discusing how to teach robots a single task from just a few human demos to let AI generates synthetic motion trajectories.

See full post here:
www.linkedin.com/posts/dougla...
I was thrilled to attend CES 2025 as member of media* and watched Jensen Huang’s NVIDIA keynote in-person. * Thank you to Entertainment Technology Center @ USC for the opportunity. 🙏 Image taken from ”CES 2025 Keynote with NVIDIA Founder and CEO, Jensen Huang” (https://youtu.be/K4qQtPpSn-k?t=6221)
February 3, 2025 at 8:20 AM