NVIDIA Unveils FlashAttention-4, Boosting Compute Speed by 20%
Written by Emily J. Thompson, Senior Investment Analyst
Updated: 2h ago
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Source: Coinmarketcap
- Technological Innovation: NVIDIA presented FlashAttention-4 at the Hot Chips conference in September 2025, specifically designed for Blackwell GPUs to address compute and memory bottlenecks in AI workloads, achieving a 20% speed boost and enhancing AI model efficiency.
- Industry Impact: While FlashAttention-4 has not directly affected cryptocurrency markets, its technological advancements in AI computing could have far-reaching implications across various industries, enhancing AI capabilities and driving future innovations.
- Community Response: The GitHub community expresses keen anticipation for FA4's release, with experts suggesting that its performance gains could set new benchmarks for AI training effectiveness, indicating strong potential for application scaling.
- Historical Foundation: The success of FlashAttention-3 lays the groundwork for FA4, with NVIDIA's ongoing innovation trajectory and the efforts of the Dao-AILab team suggesting further enhancements in AI workload efficiency in the future.
Analyst Views on AI
Wall Street analysts forecast AI stock price to rise over the next 12 months. According to Wall Street analysts, the average 1-year price target for AI is 30.45 USD with a low forecast of 18.00 USD and a high forecast of 50.00 USD. However, analyst price targets are subjective and often lag stock prices, so investors should focus on the objective reasons behind analyst rating changes, which better reflect the company's fundamentals.
13 Analyst Rating
4 Buy
6 Hold
3 Sell
Hold
Current: 12.620
Low
18.00
Averages
30.45
High
50.00
Current: 12.620
Low
18.00
Averages
30.45
High
50.00
About AI
C3.ai, Inc. is an enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) application software company. The Company has built a solution that enables its customers to rapidly develop, deploy, and operate enterprise AI applications. It offers families of software solutions, which it collectively refers to as its C3 AI software: The C3 AI Platform, C3 AI Applications, and C3 Generative AI. The C3 AI Platform, its core technology, is a comprehensive, end-to-end application development and runtime environment that is designed to allow its customers to rapidly design, develop, and deploy Enterprise AI applications of any type. Its C3 AI Applications, built using the C3 AI Platform, is a portfolio of pre-built, extensible, industry-specific, and application-specific software-as-a-service offerings (SaaS) Enterprise AI applications that can be rapidly installed and deployed. Its C3 Generative AI combines the utility of large language models, generative AI, reinforcement learning, natural language processing.
About the author
Emily J. Thompson
Emily J. Thompson, a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) with 12 years in investment research, graduated with honors from the Wharton School. Specializing in industrial and technology stocks, she provides in-depth analysis for Intellectia’s earnings and market brief reports.
