Overview

What Is AI Inference?

AI inference is where pretrained AI models are deployed to generate new data and is where AI delivers results, powering innovation across every industry. AI models are rapidly expanding in size, complexity, and diversity—pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. For the successful use of AI inference, organizations need a full-stack approach that supports the end-to-end AI life cycle and tools that enable teams to meet their goals.

Deploying Generative AI in Production

Explore key considerations for deploying and scaling generative AI in production, including the critical role of AI inference.

Benefits

Explore the Benefits of NVIDIA AI for Accelerated Inference

Standardize Deployment

Standardize Deployment

Standardize model deployment across applications, AI frameworks, model architectures, and platforms.

Integrate and Scale With Ease

Integrate and Scale With Ease

Integrate easily with tools and platforms on public clouds, on-premises data centers, and at the edge.

Lower Cost

Lower Cost

Achieve high throughput and utilization from AI infrastructure, thereby lowering costs.

High Performance

High Performance

Experience industry-leading performance with the platform that has consistently set multiple records in MLPerf, the leading industry benchmark for AI.

Software

Explore Our AI Inference Software

NVIDIA AI Enterprise consists of NVIDIA NIM™, NVIDIA Triton™ Inference Server, NVIDIA® TensorRT™, and other tools to simplify building, sharing, and deploying AI applications. With enterprise-grade support, stability, manageability, and security, enterprises can accelerate time to value while eliminating unplanned downtime.

NVIDIA NIM - Instantly Deploy Generative AI

The Fastest Path to Generative AI Inference

NVIDIA NIM is a set of easy-to-use microservices designed for secure, reliable deployment of high- performance AI model inferencing across clouds, data centers, and workstations.

NVIDIA Triton Inference Server for All AI Workloads

Unified Inference Server For All Your AI Workloads

NVIDIA Triton Inference Server is an open-source inference serving software that helps enterprises consolidate bespoke AI model serving infrastructure, shorten the time needed to deploy new AI models in production, and increase AI inferencing and prediction capacity.

NVIDIA TensorRT

An SDK for Optimizing Inference and Runtime

NVIDIA TensorRT includes an inference runtime and model optimizations that deliver low latency and high throughput for production applications. The TensorRT ecosystem includes TensorRT, TensorRT-LLM, TensorRT Model Optimizer, and TensorRT Cloud.

Hardware

Explore Our AI Inference Infrastructure

Get unmatched AI performance with NVIDIA AI inference software optimized for NVIDIA-accelerated infrastructure. The NVIDIA Blackwell, H200, L40S, and NVIDIA RTX™ technologies deliver exceptional speed and efficiency for AI inference workloads across data centers, clouds, and workstations.

NVIDIA Blackwell Platform

NVIDIA Blackwell Platform

The NVIDIA Blackwell architecture defines the next chapter in generative AI and accelerated computing, with unparalleled performance, efficiency, and scale. Blackwell features six transformative technologies that will help unlock breakthroughs in data processing, electronic design automation, computer-aided engineering, and quantum computing.

H200 Supercharges Generative AI

NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPU

The NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPU supercharges generative AI and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads with game-changing performance and memory capabilities. As the first GPU with HBM3e, the H200’s larger and faster memory fuels the acceleration of generative AI and large language models (LLMs) while advancing scientific computing for HPC workloads.

NVIDIA L40S GPU

NVIDIA L40S GPU

Combining NVIDIA’s full stack of inference serving software with the L40S GPU provides a powerful platform for trained models ready for inference. With support for structural sparsity and a broad range of precisions, the L40S delivers up to 1.7X the inference performance of the NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU.

NVIDIA RTX technology brings AI to visual computing

NVIDIA RTX Technology

NVIDIA RTX technology brings AI to visual computing, accelerating creativity by automating tasks and optimizing compute-intensive processes. With the power of CUDA® cores, RTX enhances real-time rendering, AI, graphics, and compute performance.

Introducing NVIDIA Project DIGITS

NVIDIA Project DIGITS brings the power of Grace Blackwell to developer desktops. The GB10 Superchip, combined with 128GB of unified system memory, lets AI researchers, data scientists, and students work with AI models locally with up to 200 billion parameters.

Use Cases

How AI Inference Is Being Used

See how NVIDIA AI supports industry use cases, and jump-start your AI development with curated examples.

Digital Humans

NVIDIA ACE is a suite of technologies that help developers bring digital humans to life. Several ACE microservices are NVIDIA NIMs—easy-to-deploy, high-performance microservices, optimized to run on NVIDIA RTX AI PCs or NVIDIA Graphics Delivery Network (GDN), a global network of GPUs that delivers low-latency digital human processing to 100 countries. 

Create Digital Avatars with Generative AI

Customer Stories

How Industry Leaders Are Driving Innovation With AI Inference

AI platform for telcos, using NVIDIA DGX Cloud
Amdocs

Accelerate Generative AI Performance and Lower Costs

Read how Amdocs built amAIz, a domain-specific generative AI platform for telcos, using NVIDIA DGX™ Cloud and NVIDIA NIM inference microservices to improve latency, boost accuracy, and reduce costs.

Optical Character Recognition using Triton Inference
Snapchat

Enhancing Apparel Shopping With AI

Learn how Snapchat enhanced the clothes shopping experience and emoji-aware optical character recognition using Triton Inference Server to scale, reduce costs, and accelerate time to production.

Inference 5X faster using TensorRT
Amazon

Accelerate Customer Satisfaction

Discover how Amazon improved customer satisfaction by accelerating their inference 5X faster with TensorRT.

Resources

The Latest in AI Inference Resources

How Scaling Laws Drive Smarter, More Powerful AI
February 12, 2025
Just as there are widely understood empirical laws of nature — for example, what goes up must come down, or every action has an equal and opposite reaction — the field of AI was long defined by a single idea: that more compute, more training data and more parameters makes a better AI model. However, Read Article
What Is Retrieval-Augmented Generation, aka RAG?
January 31, 2025
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 on their general understanding of the law. Sometimes a case — like a malpractice suit or a labor dispute — requires special expertise, so judges Read Article
Fast, Low-Cost Inference Offers Key to Profitable AI
January 23, 2025
Businesses across every industry are rolling out AI services this year. For Microsoft, Oracle, Perplexity, Snap and hundreds of other leading companies, using the NVIDIA AI inference platform — a full stack comprising world-class silicon, systems and software — is the key to delivering high-throughput and low-latency inference and enabling great user experiences while lowering Read Article

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