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Reshaping Workflows with Dell Pro Precision and NVIDIA RTX PRO GPUs

Episode: Live from GTC—Trinity with will.i.am
Host: Logan Lawler
Guest: will.i.am (musician, entrepreneur, innovator)
Date: March 17, 2026

Episode Overview

Theme:
This special GTC 2026 episode centers on the intersection of AI, creativity, and real-world workflow transformation, as told through the story of the Trinity, will.i.am’s innovative single-passenger vehicle. Host Logan Lawler and will.i.am explore how Dell Precision workstations and NVIDIA RTX GPUs are powering next-generation collaborations between humans and machines, particularly in sectors like robotics, music, and urban mobility. The conversation reveals how AI is not just automating tasks, but empowering new forms of imagination, collaboration, and social impact.

Key Discussion Highlights

The Birth of Trinity: Fusing Community, Robotics, and AI

[01:48] will.i.am introduces the Trinity, the sixth vehicle he’s designed—but the first intended as a scalable fleet.
- Purpose: Create a robotics and AI education hub within his own community, using the vehicle manufacturing and assembly facility as a platform for STEM upskilling.
- Specs:
  - Three-wheeler, zero to sixty in under two seconds
  - 800 horsepower, 2,000 pounds, single passenger
  - Built for urban congestion reduction and delivery safety
- "If you think about all the folks that are delivering small packages in four seater cars ... the driver that's on a bike or a motorcycle is safer in a Trinity than they would be on a vehicle." —will.i.am [02:40]
- Embedded with NVIDIA’s DGX GPU, serving as the “brain on wheels” with conversational, agentic compute.

AI as a Creative Augmentation Tool

[03:38] Logan asks how AI has helped or hindered will.i.am’s creativity.
- will.i.am’s philosophy: AI shouldn’t just repeat yesterday’s methods, but should enable the imagination of things that haven’t existed.
- "[AI] could do exactly what I did yesterday. Eventually it will be able to do that without me. But I like to use my imagination and imagine and create things that haven't existed yet ... AI is a great tool to imagine the thing that hasn't been brought to society yet." —will.i.am [04:02]
Music as a Use Case:
- AI is used for “quick sketches,” but human collaboration and completion are essential for the final product.
- “AI making music on its own is awesome, but in this case ... I want to make music myself after I heard a sketch." —will.i.am [05:18]

Trinity as a Workflow Revolution

[05:18] Trinity isn’t just for transportation—it’s a node in your workflow:
- Functions as a remote, secure, high-powered GPU workstation even when parked; can serve as a compute hub for your home, apartment, or workspace.
- "My Trinity is the GPU for my apartment house or condo. It's not just ... in the driveway, sitting there." —will.i.am [05:55]
- Locally-anchored inference for privacy and speed, with cloud integration as needed.
- Data and conversations secured with "elliptical curve cryptography keys." [06:35]

Rethinking the In-Car Experience: Conversational AI

[07:14] The Trinity’s AI assistant isn’t just a personal companion—it’s a collaborative agent:
- Natural-language conversations, similar to GPT but more extensible.
- Enables group collaboration: “It’s not just me isolated with an AI, it’s me, my AI and the folks that I work with ... having the agent go on my behalf and talk to my team on VoIP calls while I'm talking to it, still in the vehicle.” —will.i.am [07:33]

Social Impact: Broadening Access to STEM and AI

[08:12] Logan asks about will.i.am’s educational mission.
- The Trinity and related projects exemplify “lead by example” to communities often excluded from tech solutions.
- Aims:
  - Inspire students in marginalized areas toward agentic technology and robotics
  - Model the possibilities of interdisciplinary collaboration
  - Address job creation and digital literacy
- "AI is rendering a lot of jobs obsolete. AI is going to bring a lot of jobs and industries to society that we have yet to see. Those jobs are going to come from where? ... I hope that they come from the communities that reflect the ones that I come from." —will.i.am [09:30]

Memorable Quotes

On Imagination:
"I like to use my imagination and imagine and create things that haven't existed yet." —will.i.am [04:06]
On Vehicle-as-Workstation:
"My Trinity is the GPU for my apartment house or condo. It's not just ... in the driveway." —will.i.am [05:55]
On Educational Mission:
"The ambition to go to market with the Trinity, you want to lead by example on what people are capable of doing." —will.i.am [08:22]
On AI and Social Mobility:
"I hope that [future AI jobs] come from the communities that reflect the ones that I come from. The Boyle Heights of the world, the Comptons of the world, the Fifth Ward, the Bronx of the world." —will.i.am [09:36]

Timestamps for Key Segments

[01:48] Trinity’s origin, specs, and community mission
[04:02–05:18] AI as a creative partner in music & design
[05:19–06:54] Trinity revolutionizing workflows; vehicle as GPU node
[07:14–07:55] Conversational AI and collaborative workflow use cases
[08:12–10:03] Education, job creation, and inspiring underrepresented communities

Tone & Atmosphere

Logan Lawler: Enthusiastic, curious, occasionally starstruck but genuinely focused on exploring tech’s applications.
will.i.am: Visionary, passionate about social impact, hands-on technologist with a drive to democratize access to AI and robotics.

This episode is an inspiring look at how cutting-edge hardware, visionary creativity, and social purpose intersect to power the future of work—and who gets to participate in it.

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[00:00]
A
Foreign. Welcome to Reshaping Workflows with Dell Pro Precision and Nvidia, where innovation meets real world impact in high performance computing.
[00:20]
B
Welcome. This is Logan from Reshaping Workflows with Delpro Precision Nvidia RTX GPUs. I'm Logan. Mel, your host. Shouldn't be much of a surprise. I've been around for a While. We're at GTC 2026 and I'm setting this up because I had a really great opportunity. You know, I've interviewed a lot of people on the podcast, you know, folks from Pixar. I've never really interviewed anyone like I would say, quote, unquote famous. So about 24 hours ago, a little bit out of the blue, I got a text saying that I was going to interview William. So you can imagine a little bit of nervousness, a little bit of was I going to talk about. But you're about to see the interview. It went really, really well and I'd love to hear what you think. So here's me and Will and I am talking about AI for about 12 minutes.
[01:14]
A
Do what you want. Do what you want.
[01:21]
B
I'm here with Will. I am part of the Dell and Nvidia creative collaboration project. So Will, it's been, well one, it's been kind of a whirlwind. I did not know until this morning that I was interviewing you and you know, here I am and Will, you are. So let's, let's I plan that one out actually. So let's first start with you know, kind of your career, right, you know, music, entrepreneur, the innovation you've done. Tell us a little bit about the background story on Trinity.
[01:49]
C
So yeah, I'm hyper creative, love to collaborate. This is the sixth vehicle that I've made. The first one with intentions on building the fleet. The reason why I want to build a fleet in the community that I come from is to teach the community and folks around the surrounding area robotics. So the, the manufacturing assembly facility will also act as a robotics center with agentic education where folks are building the brain of the agent through our platform that we created here. So we have a, a GDX DGX inside of the vehicle. It's a obviously a three, a three wheeler. The Trinity goes zero to 60 in under two seconds. 800 horsepower, 2,000 pounds. As far as the weight, singular passenger. The aim is to reduce congestion inside the inner cities. It's great for delivery, keeping the driver safe. If you think about all the folks that are delivering small packages in four seater cars, I'M here. You're zooming through the city. The driver that's on a bike or a motorcycle is safer in a Trinity than they would be on a vehicle. The brain on wheels of the Trinity will give the driver or the police officer or the commutator a better understanding of the environment that they're in because of the conversational agentic compute that's in inside the vehicle. Helping organize all your digital life. Just by driving?
[03:39]
B
Just by driving. So let me ask you a question. You're obviously a very creative guy, right? And with AI, it can be kind of a help or a hindrance. But I think you've taken the approach and adopted that AI can help, augment, can help creatives do more, be more creative. Can you kind of tell us an example of that? Maybe with Trinity or in some of your other works you've done, where AI is it kind of advanced or accelerated the process?
[04:03]
C
Well, if you're. If you're trying to augment your creative work exactly what you were doing yesterday, there's a good and a bad thing to that. I don't like to use AI to do exactly what I did yesterday the way I did it yesterday. AI could do exactly what I did yesterday. Eventually it will be able to do that without me. But I like to use my imagination and imagine and create things that haven't existed yet to do things that I haven't did yet. And for that, AI is a great tool to. To imagine the thing that hasn't been brought to society yet.
[04:59]
B
Makes sense.
[05:01]
C
Using AI for music. I still like making music. Humans and humans. I like to use AI to make music for quick sketches. But then after I get the sketch, I want to make music.
[05:18]
B
Make it you?
[05:19]
C
Yeah, no, just make the music myself after I heard a sketch. An AI making music on its own is awesome, but in this case, for the Trinity, using AI to dream up in collaborating with humans on how the Trinity balances itself, dreaming up new ways to have workflows with a vehicle. Currently, right now, I don't. I can work in my car. I'm not working with my car. And in the case with the Trinity, I could sit in the cabin, I could work with the vehicle. I could access the vehicle remotely, because the GPU that's in the vehicle can work when I'm not in it. If I park the car, if I park the Trinity in my garage, my Trinity is the GPU for my apartment house or condo. It's not just, you know, in the driveway, sitting there.
[06:19]
B
Okay.
[06:19]
C
It's a. It's a functional part of the house. It's a functional part of my, my workspace. When, when I, when I park it next to where I work, you know, all the inference is happening locally. If it needs to go to the cloud to do some, you know, extra, you know, expansive reasoning and workflows, that's cool too. But I know that my personal conversations are here, safe and secure with my elliptical curve cryptography keys. But at the same time, it's a part of my workflow. It just didn't take me to work.
[06:55]
B
Didn't just take you to work. I love that.
[06:56]
C
You know what I mean?
[06:57]
B
I love that. So tell us two more quick questions. So in the inside, in the AI conversational assistant, right, like everyone was raving about it in Cesar, tell for people that aren't going to get to experience the car, tell them a little bit about what the conversational assistant is once you get inside the Trinity.
[07:15]
C
So it's natural language. You're having full on conversations similar to, you know, what people are now used to with GPT. But we go a step further by, you know, allowing you and the agent to collaborate with your, your team.
[07:33]
B
Okay.
[07:34]
C
It's not just me isolated with an AI, it's me, my AI and the folks that I work with, you know, weaving it on threads, weaving it in groups, having the agent go on my behalf and talk to my, my team on VoIP calls while I'm talking to it, still in the vehicle.
[07:56]
B
So will really appreciate the time. One last question. I can tell you're really passionate about engineering education. You're a professor yourself. How do you see the work that you're doing impacting, you know, students in STEM and you know, their ability to build in robotics and AI, how do you see your work impacting that down the road?
[08:12]
C
Specifically for folks that come from the communities that I come from, the work that I'm doing not only, you know, in the classroom, teaching my agentic self course, but just the, the audacity to build the Trinity and create a company. The ambition to go to market with the Trinity, you want to lead by example on what people are capable of doing. What happens when you bring different disciplines together to work to solve a problem? And the problem that we want to solve in the inner city is job creation. The problem we want to, we want to solve in inner city is, you know, you know, literacy around agentic technologies, literacy around robotics and applying ourselves with AI to, you know, solve the problems that have been unsolved. You know, so when you have like a group of folks that are fearless when it comes to this era that we're in to solve the problems that have not been solved. You know, AI is rendering a lot of jobs obsolete. AI is going to bring a lot of jobs and industries to society that we have yet to see. Those jobs are going to come from where? Question mark. I hope that they come from the communities that reflect the ones that I come from. The Boyle Heights of the world, the Comptons of the world, the the Fifth Ward, the Bronx of the world. And starting with Boyle Heights and the Trinity. Coming from Boyle Heights, you know, there's a lot of inspiration that's going to go around.
[10:04]
B
I love it. I love it, man. This was great. Appreciate the time, Will.
[10:14]
A
Do what you. Do what you want. Do what you want.
[10:28]
C
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