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Next-generation warehouses and factories that can build cars on their own. Wearable exoskeletons that move with a person in real time to improve comfort, movement, and recovery.

Hospitals with AI-powered robots that help with medical and everyday tasks. Everyday people — like biologists, librarians, and musicians — becoming developers in their own fields.

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Much of this may seem like science fiction, but it is actually science fact that will soon become reality. This was the main message from the big panel, ‘The Future of AI – Platforms, Innovation, & Investments,’ on day three of TiEcon 2025.

With more than 180 speakers and the theme ‘AiVerse’, the conference showed how innovation is changing everything. Led by TiE Silicon Valley President Anita Manwani, TiEcon keeps promoting a culture of transformation.

The panel titled ‘The Future of AI – Platforms, Innovation, & Investments’ featured several experts from NVIDIA. The speakers included Shanker Trivedi, Senior Vice President of Enterprise Business; Pradeep Gupta, Vice President of Generative AI & Accelerated Computing; Susan Marshall, Senior Director of Developer Relations; Prerna Dogra, Director of Product Management & Developer Ecosystems for Healthcare AI; and Rajani Parameshwar, Senior Director of Corporate Development.

AI is being used in many exciting ways in healthcare. For example, advanced exoskeletons can sense movement and intent, helping people walk or move without needing manual control. AI is also helping develop brain-computer interfaces, especially for diseases like Alzheimer’s.

In hospitals, AI-powered robots (called embodied AI) can work on their own using sensors, robotics, computer vision, and machine learning. In biotechnology, projects like AlphaFold are transforming medicine by accurately predicting protein structures at the atomic level.

“Our journey started about 15 years ago with sensor processing. Building on that stack, we now have a world-class, medical-grade, real-time sensor processing platform called HoloScan. It’s the first of its kind: the foundation of what we're seeing in intuitive, robotics-assisted surgery,” Prerna Dogra said. “We also founded an open-source project called MONAI or the Medical Open Network for AI. It's crossed five million downloads and is a benchmark in medical R&D.There’s an explosion of startups and AI agents shaping how care is delivered. In Silicon Valley alone, you have 17, 18, 19 such verticals.”

NVIDIA’s Developer Relations team helps developers and startup founders build powerful applications using GPU technology. They offer support and partnerships to make it easier to use advanced tools.

Susan Marshall, the Senior Director and a former founder, now helps startups in areas like finance, robotics, and healthcare develop full AI solutions. One of the tools they use is NVIDIA Inference Microservices (NIMs) — ready-made packages that speed up AI development.

“We now have 22,000 startups in our programme, and it’s growing. It could even be two guys in a garage that have a great idea, and we’ll go out and help,” Marshall said. “NVIDIA is a very founder-friendly company. We are check size-agnostic and stage agnostic. Between the two investing arms of NVIDIA, CorpDev and Nventures, we pretty much cover a wide gamut of startups.”

NVIDIA is currently tackling industry-specific challenges across more than 20 sectors — from drug discovery and retail checkouts to algorithmic trading and creating digital twins for factories.

NVIDIA is actively investing in “neo-clouds” — cloud providers built specifically for AI needs. Since GPUs require a lot of power, NVIDIA is also teaming up with startups that focus on clean energy solutions like wind, solar, geothermal, and carbon capture to reduce energy use.

In the US, NVIDIA’s Jetson edge AI platform is being used in smart meters. It helps process local energy data, predict grid conditions, and support smarter energy management.