Ankit Patel

Ankit Patel is a senior director at NVIDIA, leading developer engagement for the company’s ecosystem of libraries, compilers and developer tools. Ankit joined NVIDIA in 2011 as a GPU Product Manager helping pioneer GPU-accelerated virtual machines, and pushed the boundaries of server GPUs, including NVIDIA's early 8-GPU server appliance. His career transitioned to software, notably leading product management for NVIDIA's OptiX library for ray tracing and AI denoising, a key development that leveraged RT Cores and deepened his connection to deep learning. Prior to NVIDIA, he held product management roles at Matrox Video and Blackmagic Design. Working on full systems for over two decades has given him perspective and expertise at the intersection of silicon and software. Ankit holds a Bachelor's in Computer Science from Concordia University, an MBA from Cornell University and currently serves on the PyTorch Governing Board.
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Posts by Ankit Patel

AI Platforms / Deployment Aug 22, 2025

NVIDIA Hardware Innovations and Open Source Contributions Are Shaping AI

Open source AI models such as Cosmos, DeepSeek, Gemma, GPT-OSS, Llama, Nemotron, Phi, Qwen, and many more are the foundation of AI innovation. These models are... 8 MIN READ
Models / Libraries / Frameworks May 02, 2025

Integrate and Deploy Tongyi Qwen3 Models into Production Applications with NVIDIA

Alibaba recently released Tongyi Qwen3, a family of open-source hybrid-reasoning large language models (LLMs). The Qwen3 family consists of two MoE models,... 7 MIN READ
Generative AI Jul 25, 2024

Revolutionizing Code Completion with Codestral Mamba, the Next-Gen Coding LLM

In the rapidly evolving field of generative AI, coding models have become indispensable tools for developers, enhancing productivity and precision in software... 5 MIN READ
Generative AI May 20, 2024

Supercharge Generative AI Development with Firebase Genkit, Optimized by NVIDIA RTX GPUs

At Google I/O 2024, Google announced Firebase Genkit, a new open-source framework for developers to add generative AI to web and mobile applications using... 4 MIN READ
Llama 3 Performance with NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM and NVIDIA Triton Inference Server
Generative AI Apr 28, 2024

Turbocharging Meta Llama 3 Performance with NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM and NVIDIA Triton Inference Server

We're excited to announce support for the Meta Llama 3 family of models in NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM, accelerating and optimizing your LLM inference performance. You... 9 MIN READ
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Generative AI Feb 21, 2024

NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM Revs Up Inference for Google Gemma 

NVIDIA is collaborating as a launch partner with Google in delivering Gemma, a newly optimized family of open models built from the same research and technology... 4 MIN READ