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Nvidia is preparing to oust Jensen Huang

Taiwan’s chipmaking giant TSMC to invest $1B in Anthropic, OpenAI

Top chip manufacturer TSMC is ready to invest $1 billion in Anthropic and OpenAI. That would give the Taiwanese chipmaker direct stakes in leading AI developers, even as its own contract chipmaking business has profited enormously from the AI data center buildout. The…

Validating GPU Platforms with Runtime AI Inventory via the NVIDIA DSX AI Factory

As teams deploy and scale AI workloads using NVIDIA Dynamo, Kubeflow, or Slurm, tracking what actually runs requires visibility beyond the platform... As teams deploy and scale AI workloads using NVIDIA Dynamo, Kubeflow, or Slurm, tracking what actually runs requires visibility…

When Does It Actually Make Sense to Put AI Into Products?

Over the past few years, the tech industry has rushed to plug a new microchip into every device on the assumption that if you can add AI, you should. Smart-vision toothbrushes, mood-reading household robots, and a host of physical products are invading consumers’ daily lives…

NVIDIA Expands Open Source Commitment With OpenShell Contribution and New AI Infrastructure

Kubernetes, the open source system that manages how applications run across thousands of AI factories, has become the foundation for AI, and the demands on it are only growing. To help meet them, NVIDIA is deepening its commitment to open source at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, the…

Running AV Reasoning Models Within Onboard Compute and Latency Limits

Autonomous vehicle (AV) developers need reasoning models that can operate within the compute and latency constraints of an onboard system. Larger models provide... Autonomous vehicle (AV) developers need reasoning models that can operate within the compute and latency…

Start and Restore GPU Workloads in Seconds with NVIDIA Snapshot

NVIDIA Snapshot, a new open-source component of the NVIDIA DSX AI Factory Platform, makes initialized GPU workloads reusable across inference... NVIDIA Snapshot, a new open-source component of the NVIDIA DSX AI Factory Platform, makes initialized GPU workloads reusable across…

The backlash about data centers might really just be about electricity

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. As voters went to the polls across the US last week, I was in Ashburn, Virginia, part of what’s known as Data Center Alley—the world’s…

Manage Kubernetes Clusters for GPU Infrastructure with NVIDIA Kubernetes Engine

NVIDIA is announcing two open source projects for building and operating managed Kubernetes services on GPU infrastructure—NVIDIA Kubernetes Engine (NVKE) and... NVIDIA is announcing two open source projects for building and operating managed Kubernetes services on GPU…

Make a Robot Arm Feel Weightless with NVIDIA Holoscan 5

Picture guiding a robot arm by hand while its motors supply just enough torque to support its weight and keep the robot upright. This simple interaction, a... Picture guiding a robot arm by hand while its motors supply just enough torque to support its weight and keep the robot…

Nvidia CEO's affair becomes a national security problem

Nvidia’s chief executive Jensen Huang has admitted having an affair two days after the FT reported his alleged romantic relationship with a woman the US intelligence community believes was working as a spy for China. Huang revealed the affair in an internal message to employees…

Practice Makes Precise: At CoRL, NVIDIA and Partners Reveal How Robots Rehearse Delicate Work in Simulation

Simulation, which has long been the proving ground for robots learning to walk, roll and hop, is now helping researchers teach robots tasks that require a finer touch: aligning gears, connecting cables and assembling small components. The shift from locomotion to manipulation is…

Import AI 480: Self-sustaining space economies; AI for science progress, and Meta builds perfect hands for a superintelligence

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now AI Science startup converts a quantum conjecture into a theorem: …An evocative taste of the…

NVIDIA Announces New Planned Investments in Korean Startups at the MSIT-NVIDIA AI Startup Partnership Forum

Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT and NVIDIA hosted the MSIT -NVIDIA AI Startup Partnership Forum at COEX. Representatives from the Ministry of Science and ICT and NVIDIA met with over 20 Korean startups across foundation models, physical AI, AI infrastructure and AI…

Korea Advances Physical AI Across Industries With NVIDIA

Tapping into the country’s strengths in manufacturing and engineering, NVIDIA is helping advance Korea’s physical AI ecosystem. The country’s industry leaders are applying accelerated computing, AI and simulation to everything from semiconductor manufacturing to robotics and…

Speed Up Image Generation with FLUX 3 Image Klein on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs

When deploying diffusion models in design tools, image editors, and visual production workflows, developers must account for inference latency. Generating an... When deploying diffusion models in design tools, image editors, and visual production workflows, developers must…

Korea’s AI Ecosystem Advances and Secures Agentic AI With NVIDIA

As AI agents take on more work, they need capable open models and security that advances alongside them. Hyundai Motor Group is exploring NVIDIA NemoClaw blueprints and the NVIDIA OpenShell runtime, while AIM Intelligence is integrating its Starfort platform with NVIDIA…

From Chips to Skills, NVIDIA and Korea Expand Sovereign AI Collaboration

NVIDIA and Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) are expanding their collaboration across the country’s sovereign AI ecosystem, from AI semiconductors and data center infrastructure to talent, startups, models, agents and security. The collaboration lays the groundwork for…

Could potential AI clones of GTA VI force a quicker official port?

Yesterday, when reporting on emerging efforts to pipe the console version of GTA VI through a PC's DLSS-powered Nvidia GPU, we mentioned in passing that PC players could instead just wait for the AI-assisted decompilation port that will no doubt be coming in short order. Now, a…

NVIDIA Dynamo Recipes Bring Korea’s Leading Open Models to Production

NVIDIA is releasing Dynamo-optimized deployment recipes for Korea’s leading open models: A.X K2 from SK Telecom, K-EXAONE 2.0 from LG AI Research, Solar Open 2 from Upstage and Motif-3 from Motif Technologies. As models grow beyond the capacity of a single GPU, they must be…

How NVIDIA Open Source Tools Are Helping Researchers Build Next-Generation 6G Networks

A year ago, NVIDIA open sourced its Aerial wireless software, joining Sionna and a broader suite of open source tools for accelerating next-generation 6G network development. Together, they give researchers a foundation for testing ideas, comparing results and building on each…

I watched a humanoid robot clean my apartment. It felt like a taste of the future.

I’m not the sort of person who typically pays for a house cleaner. I’m too frugal, and I kind of enjoy putting on a podcast and going to town on my tub with a Magic Eraser. But when I saw an X post about a new humanoid-robot cleaning service in San Francisco, I immediately…

Vera Delivers the Best of Both Worlds: Highest Throughput and Fastest Agents

AI agents do more than generate answers. They search for information, query databases, write and test code and take action. Each of those steps relies on a CPU, with agents moving between GPU reasoning and CPU execution throughout a task. As businesses put more agents to work…