ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 18, 2024--
Neural Concept, the leading end-to-end 3D AI platform for engineering intelligence, announced today at Supercomputing 2024 that its 3D AI platform will leverage the NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint. This integration enables Neural Concept customers to create real-time interactive digital twins at scale for computer-aided engineering (CAE) product development.
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The news follows Neural Concept’s announcement of its first U.S. office and 10 new U.S. original equipment manufacturer (OEM) customers. Neural Concept previously announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to enhance the performance and scalability of Neural Concept’s platform by leveraging the NVIDIA accelerated computing platform.
Traditional OEM engineering workflows — from physics simulation to visualization — can take weeks or even months to complete. By using Neural Concept’s 3D AI platform with the NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint to simulate and create real-time digital twins at scale, OEMs can get real-time predictions on performance, make design iterations faster and more efficiently, and make the best design decisions out of tens of millions of simulated options.
Neural Concept’s 3D AI platform accelerates CAE with engineering intelligence by placing generative AI and data-driven design at the core of the OEM product development process. Over 70 OEMs across automotive, aerospace and micro-electronics including Airbus, General Electric and Subaru rely on Neural Concept’s platform to cut end-to-end product development times by up to 75% and accelerate product simulation by up to 10x while improving product characteristics such as energy efficiency, safety, speed and aerodynamics by up to 30%.
This latest integration of the NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint for real-time computer-aided engineering digital twins means Neural Concept OEM customers will soon gain access to NVIDIA Omniverse APIs for advanced real-time visualization and optimization capabilities for product design. The blueprint will further enhance Neural Concept’s 3D AI platform, helping users drive down development costs and energy usage, and accelerate product innovation while achieving even faster time to market.
Pierre Baqué, CEO and Co-founder, Neural Concept said: “AI is accelerating, and OEMs are racing to keep pace by integrating 3D AI into their CAE workflows. Our work with NVIDIA has already brought unprecedented compute performance and scale to the Neural Concept platform’s physics-driven AI models with NVIDIA GPUs and CUDA platform software. Now, we’re excited to extend that work by enabling customers to accelerate their simulation and visualization of real-time digital twins with NVIDIA Omniverse. This will helpempower OEMs across the world with engineering intelligence – the ability to iterate product designs at speed with real-time feedback, collaborate seamlessly across teams and use simulation at massive scale to develop better products, faster.”
Tim Costa, senior director of CAE, EDA, and quantum at NVIDIA, said: “Neural Concept’s integration of the NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint with its 3D AI platform will help customers accelerate, AI emulate and visualize real-time digital twins at scale, accelerating CAE product development and speeding the pace of innovation.”
Neural Concept will be demonstrating its 3D AI platform at CES 25 in Las Vegas (6 th Jan – 10 th January 2025).
About Neural Concept
Founded in 2018, Neural Concept provides a leading end-to-end platform which places AI at the center of the product development process to revolutionize the way engineers conceptualize, design and validate products. Neural Concept’s flagship technology empowers engineering teams with 3D generative engineering, predictive analysis, and collaborative AI workflows, helping world class engineering teams reduce development times by up to 75%, improve product characteristics including efficiency, safety, speed, and aerodynamics, and empower engineers to 10x accelerate their work. The company works with 40% of the largest European and Asian OEMs and 25% of the world’s top 100 tier-1 suppliers. Neural Concept was spun-out from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) and is backed by world-renowned investors including Forestay Capital and the D. E. Shaw group. For more information, visit https://www.neuralconcept.com
This latest integration of the NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint for real-time computer-aided engineering digital twins means Neural Concept OEM customers will soon gain access to NVIDIA Omniverse APIs for advanced real-time visualization and optimization capabilities for product design. (Graphic: Business Wire)
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Testimony resumed Monday in the trial of the man accused of killing Georgia nursing student Laken Riley with police officers describing searching the man's apartment and questioning him and others who lived there.
Jose Ibarra who entered the U.S. illegally two years ago, is charged with murder and other crimes in Riley’s February killing. He waived his right to a jury trial, meaning Athens-Clarke County Superior Court Judge H. Patrick Haggard will hear and decide his case.
Ibarra, 26, took selfies of himself early on the day Riley was killed, according to testimony from an FBI agent who analyzed data from cellphones seized from the apartment where Ibarra lived with his two brothers and two other people. He could be seen in those photos wearing a black Adidas baseball cap and a dark hooded jacket.
A few hours before Riley was killed, a man in a black Adidas baseball cap was seen on surveillance video at the door of a first-floor apartment in University of Georgia housing complex. The female student who lived there told police she had heard the door jiggling and that she saw someone looking into her window, prosecutor Sheila Ross said during her opening statement on Friday.
Police officers using a grainy screen shot from that surveillance video approached a man wearing a black Adidas cap the day after the killing. That turned out to be Diego Ibarra.
University of Georgia police Sgt. Joshua Epps testified that he was called to question Diego Ibarra outside of the apartment where the Ibarras lived. Epps testified that he did not see any signs of recent injuries on Diego Ibarra.
Outside the apartment, police also questioned Argenis Ibarra, Jose Ibarra and Rosbeli Elisbar Flores Bello. Epps and Corporal Rafael Sayan, who speaks Spanish and helped with the questioning, testified that they noticed recent scratches on Jose Ibarra.
When asked why his knuckles were red, Jose Ibarra told them it was because of the cold but didn't really give any explanation for several scratches on his arms, Sayan said.
Security video from the apartment complex showed a man throwing something into a trash bin while wearing a shirt with a distinctive pattern. A crime scene specialist from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation testified there was a lot of clothing in the one-room apartment but that she didn't find that shirt in the apartment and didn't find any bloody clothing.
A police officer testified on Friday that he found a dark hooded jacket in the trash bin seen in the video, and testing later showed that it had Riley's blood on it.
Flores Bello identified the man in the video as Jose Ibarra and confirmed that identification on the witness stand on Monday. She also said she had previously seen him wearing the dark hooded jacket and thought it was strange he was throwing it away.
The trial began Friday with testimony from Riley's roommates and from law enforcement officers. Riley’s parents, roommates and other friends and family packed the courtroom on Friday and again on Monday.
During her opening statement, Ross used security and doorbell camera video, as well as data from Riley's watch and phone, to establish a timeline of the 22-year-old student's final moments.
Ross said Ibarra encountered Riley while she was running on the University of Georgia campus and killed her during a struggle. Riley was a student at Augusta University College of Nursing, which also has a campus in Athens, about 70 miles (113 kilometers) east of Atlanta.
Defense attorney Dustin Kirby said in his opening that Riley's death was a tragedy and called the evidence in the case graphic and disturbing. But he said there is not sufficient evidence to prove that his client killed Riley.
The killing added fuel to the national debate over immigration when federal authorities said Ibarra illegally entered the U.S. in 2022 and was allowed to stay in the country while he pursued his immigration case.
Ibarra is charged with one count of malice murder, three counts of felony murder and one count each of kidnapping, aggravated assault, aggravated battery, hindering an emergency telephone call, tampering with evidence and being a peeping Tom.
Allyson Phillips, mother of Laken Riley, second left, listens during the trial of Jose Ibarra at Athens-Clarke County Superior Court on Monday, Nov. 18, 2024, in Athens, Ga. (Miguel Martinez/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, Pool)
Jason Riley, center, Laken Riley's father, listens during the Jose Ibarra trial at Athens-Clarke County Superior Court on Monday, Nov. 18, 2024, in Athens, Ga. (Miguel Martinez/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, Pool)
Prosecutor Sheila Ross speaks to the University of Georgia Police Rafael Sayan during the second day of the trial of Jose Ibarra at Athens-Clarke County Superior Court on Monday, Nov. 18, 2024, in Athens, Ga. (Miguel Martinez/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, Pool)
Superior Court Judge H. Patrick Haggard, right, confers with prosecutors and attorneys for Jose Ibarra during the second day of the trial of Jose Ibarra at Athens-Clarke County Superior Court on Monday, Nov. 18, 2024, in Athens, Ga. (Miguel Martinez/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, Pool)
Superior Court Judge H. Patrick Haggard speaks during the trial of Jose Ibarra at Athens-Clarke County Superior Court on Monday, Nov. 18, 2024, in Athens, Ga. (Miguel Martinez/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, Pool)
Prosecutor Sheila Ross shows a piece of evidence to University of Georgia Police Josh Epps during the trial of Jose Ibarra at Athens-Clarke County Superior Court on Monday, Nov. 18, 2024, in Athens, Ga. (Miguel Martinez/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, Pool)
Jose Ibarra listens through an interpreter during the second day of his trial at the Athens-Clarke County Superior Court on Monday, Nov. 18, 2024, in Athens, Ga. (Miguel Martinez/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, Pool)
Jose Ibarra, accused of killing a Georgia nursing student earlier this year, listens through an interpreter during his trial at Athens-Clarke County Superior Court, Friday, Nov. 15, 2024, in Athens, Ga. (Hyosub Shin/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, Pool)
