Author: Dana Bash
Generative AI is unlocking new capabilities for PCs and workstations, including game assistants, enhanced content-creation and productivity tools and more. NVIDIA NIM microservices, available now, and AI Blueprints, in the coming weeks, accelerate AI development and improve its accessibility. Announced at the CES trade show in January, NVIDIA NIM provides prepackaged, state-of-the-art AI models optimized for the NVIDIA RTX platform, including the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Series and, now, the new NVIDIA Blackwell RTX PRO GPUs. The microservices are easy to download and run. They span the top modalities for PC development and are compatible with top ecosystem applications and…
Time to sharpen the blade. GeForce NOW brings a legendary addition to the cloud: Ubisoft’s highly anticipated Assassin’s Creed Shadows is now available for members to stream. Plus, dive into the updated version of the iconic Fable Anniversary — part of 11 games joining the cloud this week. Silent as a Shadow Take the Leap of Faith from the cloud. Explore 16th-century Japan, uncover conspiracies and shape the destiny of a nation — all from the cloud. Assassin’s Creed Shadows unfolds in 1579, during the turbulent Azuchi-Momoyama period of feudal Japan, a time of civil war and cultural exchange. Step…
The power and utilities sector keeps the lights on for the world’s populations and industries. As the global energy landscape evolves, so must the tools it relies on. To advance the next generation of electricity generation and distribution, many of the industry’s members are joining forces through the creation of the Open Power AI Consortium. The consortium includes energy companies, technology companies and researchers developing AI applications to tackle domain-specific challenges, such as adapting to an increased deployment of distributed energy resources and significant load growth on electric grids. Led by independent, nonprofit energy R&D organization EPRI, the consortium aims…
Oracle Database and NVIDIA AI Integrations Make It Easier for Enterprises to Quickly and Easily Harness Agentic AI GTC—Oracle and NVIDIA today announced a first-of-its-kind integration between NVIDIA accelerated computing and inference software with Oracle’s AI infrastructure, and generative AI services, to help organizations globally speed creation of agentic AI applications. The new integration between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform will make 160+ AI tools and 100+ NVIDIA NIM™ microservices natively available through the OCI Console. In addition, Oracle and NVIDIA are collaborating on the no-code deployment of both Oracle and NVIDIA AI Blueprints…
The roots of many of NVIDIA’s landmark innovations — the foundational technology that powers AI, accelerated computing, real-time ray tracing and seamlessly connected data centers — can be found in the company’s research organization, a global team of around 400 experts in fields including computer architecture, generative AI, graphics and robotics. Established in 2006 and led since 2009 by Bill Dally, former chair of Stanford University’s computer science department, NVIDIA Research is unique among corporate research organizations — set up with a mission to pursue complex technological challenges while having a profound impact on the company and the world. “We…
Groundbreaking AI and Graphics Performance Redefine Visualization, Simulation and Scientific Computing From Desktop to Data Center for Millions of Professionals Worldwide GTC—NVIDIA today announced the NVIDIA RTX PRO™ Blackwell series — a revolutionary generation of workstation and server GPUs redefining workflows for AI, technical, creative, engineering and design professionals with breakthrough accelerated computing, AI inference, ray tracing and neural rendering technologies. For everything from agentic AI, simulation, extended reality, 3D design and complex visual effects to developing physical AI powering autonomous robots, vehicles and smart spaces, the RTX PRO Blackwell series provides professionals across industries the latest and greatest compute…
GTC—NVIDIA today announced a portfolio of technologies to supercharge humanoid robot development, including NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1, the world’s first open, fully customizable foundation model for generalized humanoid reasoning and skills. The other technologies include simulation frameworks and blueprints such as the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T Blueprint for generating synthetic data, as well as Newton, an open-source physics engine — under development with Google DeepMind and Disney Research — purpose-built for developing robots. Available now, GR00T N1 is the first of a family of fully customizable models that NVIDIA will pretrain and release to worldwide robotics developers — accelerating the transformation…
GTC—NVIDIA today announced the open Llama Nemotron family of models with reasoning capabilities, designed to provide developers and enterprises a business-ready foundation for creating advanced AI agents that can work independently or as connected teams to solve complex tasks. Built on Llama models, the NVIDIA Llama Nemotron reasoning family delivers on-demand AI reasoning capabilities. NVIDIA enhanced the new reasoning model family during post-training to improve multistep math, coding, reasoning and complex decision-making. This refinement process boosts accuracy of the models by up to 20% compared with the base model and optimizes inference speed by 5x compared with other leading open…
GTC—NVIDIA today announced a major release of new NVIDIA Cosmos™ world foundation models (WFMs), introducing an open and fully customizable reasoning model for physical AI development and giving developers unprecedented control over world generation. NVIDIA is also launching two new blueprints — powered by the NVIDIA Omniverse™ and Cosmos platforms — that provide developers with massive, controllable synthetic data generation engines for post-training robots and autonomous vehicles. Industry leaders including 1X, Agility Robotics, Figure AI, Foretellix, Skild AI and Uber are among the first to adopt Cosmos to generate richer training data for physical AI faster and at scale. “Just…
GTC—NVIDIA today announced the world’s most advanced enterprise AI infrastructure — NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD™ built with NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs — which provides enterprises across industries with AI factory supercomputing for state-of-the-art agentic AI reasoning. Enterprises can use new NVIDIA DGX™ GB300 and NVIDIA DGX B300 systems, integrated with NVIDIA networking, to deliver out-of-the-box DGX SuperPOD AI supercomputers that offer FP4 precision and faster AI reasoning to supercharge token generation for AI applications. AI factories provide purpose-built infrastructure for agentic, generative and physical AI workloads, which can require significant computing resources for AI pretraining, post-training and test-time scaling for applications…