Nvidia wants to help California train its residents on advanced AI [Video]

Chipmaker Nvidia is teaming up with the State of California to help educate students and educators on AI.

The partnership — cosigned by California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang — will train residents on how to use the technology to support job creation, promote innovation, and leverage AI to solve everyday problems, according to a press release from California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

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

As part of that training, educators in California can get a 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.

Due to the use of its super popular chips to fuel the AI boom, Nvidia has swelled into a multi-trillion-dollar company. Since the …