33 Computer Vision News Computer Vision News You're right, it's a company that, like any other company, has a due diligence to shareholders. However, NVIDIA has always not focused on the near-term revenue. Jensen, the CEO, has this wonderful outlook of going after really hard problems and then trying to solve those problems that no one else can solve. Medical imaging is just full of that. So for NVIDIA, it is the challenge of coming up with solutions that deal with massive pathology images, that deal with real-time volumetric ultrasound data that's going to be just around the corner for intraoperative procedure guidance. These are hugely important, impactful health care challenges that we seek to solve. That is what motivates the company and that's what motivates its contributions to MONAI. It isn't about turning the dollar in the near term. It really is making the world a better place via medical AI. Tell me about 2025. Will there be a lot of online evangelism around MONAI or will it be more in person, like in conferences? All of the above. We've already planning NeurIPS workshops. We're planning a presence at RSNA that will be repeated year after year. We are having now the exciting NVIDIA GTC event, featuring MONAI and this HoloScan SDK coming together. I really see 2025 as being an exciting year for MONAI. We look forward to riding that wave of medical AI just being pervasive. If MONAI were a horse, would you bet your hard-gained money on it? I'm betting my career on it. Literally! By having NVIDIA backing behind MONAI, we know that it is a safe bet. It's going to be around for a long time. We see now FDA-approved products being based on MONAI. We really see it being adopted not just by NVIDIA, but other commercial entities, including Google for Google Health, AWS for Healthcare. All of those systems make MONAI available as an AI for processing medical images within them. It's nice to see that big giant corporations actually are so much in favor of open source! In the latest interview he gave me, Yann LeCun at Meta was very vocal about their support of open source. Now you tell me about NVIDIA as well and other big companies. Are all giants in favor of open source? No matter how big these businesses are, the open source community is bigger. Open source developers might be a limited resource, but there's 211 contributors to MONAI. It's hard for any one business to contribute 211 developers to one product and one focused thing such as MONAI. And these are really the best and brightest around the world. These businesses realize that participating in the communities rather than competing with them is in their best interest. It's really in everyone's best interests! with Stephen Aylward - NVIDIA
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