Bytes: Week in Review — Nvidia’s new bot, evaluating AI models in health care, and a health tech company preps its IPO

Marketplace Tech

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🗓️ 21 March 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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The stock market has been a tad volatile lately. But this month, the digital physical therapy company Hinge Health filed for an initial public offering. Plus, a new tool out of Stanford University evaluates how various AI models perform in real-world health care. It grades them on tasks from patient education to clinical note generation. But first, Nvidia just hosted its annual GTC confab, where it announced a whole lot of collaborations and, of course, some new and improved chips. Main takeaway: The company has its fingers in a bunch of AI pies. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino discusses all of this with Christina Farr, managing director at Manatt Health.

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0:00.0	It's not the best market for an IPO, but this health tech company's doing it anyway.
0:08.1	From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech. I'm Megan McCarty Carrino.
0:31.9	The stock market has been a tad volatile lately, but earlier this month, the digital physical therapy company Hinge Health filed for its initial public offering.
0:36.7	We'll dig into why now on today's Marketplace Techbytes week in review.
0:45.2	Plus, a new tool out of Stanford University evaluates how various AI models perform in the real world in health care. It grades them on tasks from patient education to clinical note generation.
0:50.8	But first, NVIDIA just hosted its annual conference GTC, where it announced a whole lot of collaborations
0:57.7	and, of course, some new and improved chips. Main takeaway, the company has its fingers in a bunch of
1:04.4	different AI pies. Here to discuss all this with me is Christina Farr, managing director at Manette Health.
1:11.8	Seems like Nvidia really is betting that there is going to be a rise of real-world applications
1:17.4	of AI from a variety of different industries, including the one that I'm in, which is healthcare.
1:22.9	And you see Nvidia really start to invest by both building out teams that can tackle some of these
1:30.0	industries, and a lot of that requires collaboration. I don't think Nvidia is ultimately going
1:36.0	to be selling both the chips and the GPUs and the confusing power and all of that good stuff,
1:40.9	as well as building some of those applications. I predict that we'll see more and more just partnerships with these industries and with companies
1:49.3	that are already subject matter experts within their specific domains.
1:54.0	And all of that is good for Nvidia because it just allows them to keep selling more and
1:58.3	more and more and just really proves the point that AI, you know,
2:01.9	isn't overhyped. It's not just a kind of moment in time, but that it really is the next phase
2:07.3	of computing. So one of the partnerships that was announced this week, not at GTC, but by
2:15.2	BlackRock, was this AI infrastructure partnership, which NVIDIA is a part of.
2:22.7	So is Microsoft.
2:24.4	So is XAI, which is Elon Musk's AI company that has built kind of the world's biggest
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