In our inaugural webinar we heard about NVIDIA Omniverse™, a multi-GPU-enabled open platform for 3D design collaboration and real-time physically accurate simulation, featuring NVIDIA artificial intelligence (AI) advancements that interweave the real and the virtual, and the Artificial Intelligence Institute's Accelerated WEKA project, which provides an accessible entry point for using GPUs in well-known WEKA algorithms by integrating open-source RAPIDS libraries.