Nvidia wants to help California train its residents with the help of advanced artificial intelligence

Huang said in the statement that the partnership will help “train 100,000 students, teachers, developers and data scientists to harness this technology.”

As part of this training, California educators can earn certification from the Nvidia Deep Learning Institute University Ambassador Program, which will connect educators with “high-quality teaching kits, workshop content, and Nvidia GPU-accelerated workstations in the cloud,” according to a press release from Nvidia.

Thanks to the use of its super popular chips to fuel the AI ​​boom, Nvidia has ballooned into a multi-trillion dollar company. Since the beginning of the year, the company’s stock has more than doubled, and in June it briefly claimed the throne of the world’s most valuable company.

California’s collaboration with Nvidia is part of the state’s recent efforts to establish itself as a center for innovative technology.

Last September, Newsom signed an executive order calling for more provisions on the responsible deployment of the technology and directing state agencies to examine its best uses. Earlier this year, California unveiled a state worker training program, held a generative artificial intelligence summit and launched pilot projects to understand how the technology can address everyday challenges like traffic congestion and language accessibility .

That said, Newsom seems to be walking a fine line between regulating the technology and encouraging its development.

“I don’t want to cede this space to other states or other countries,” Newsom said at an AI event in San Francisco in May, according to Politico. “If we overdo it, if we indulge, if we chase the shiny object, we could put ourselves in a dangerous position.”