nvidia
NVIDIA publishes the whole recipe behind an IMO gold score, weights and all News
NVIDIA researchers released the full training recipe, data, 1.12 TB checkpoints and submitted proofs behind a Nemotron system that scored 30 of 42 points at the 2026 International Mathematical Olympiad, above the gold cutoff, as marked by the olympiad's own graders, using natural language only with no formal prover or internet access.
NVIDIA signed a $12.93 billion agreement to buy Hugging Face, with closing expected in 2027 News
NVIDIA signed a definitive agreement on September 2, 2026 to acquire Hugging Face for approximately $12.93 billion, but the SEC filing says the transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2027 pending regulatory approval—so it is announced, not complete.
NVIDIA signed a $12.93 billion agreement to buy Hugging Face, closing in 2027 News
NVIDIA entered a definitive agreement on September 2, 2026 to acquire Hugging Face for approximately $12.93 billion, with its SEC filing stating the deal is expected to close in the first half of 2027 pending regulatory approval -- meaning the acquisition is announced, not completed.
CrowdStrike shipped an attacker model and a defender model that train against each other News
CrowdStrike launched SafeMind on September 1, 2026 -- a pair of security models built on NVIDIA's Nemotron, one offensive and one defensive, run in a closed loop where each is continuously pitted against the other to improve.
DRAM contract prices nearly doubled in a single quarter News
Conventional memory contract prices rose roughly 93% to 98% quarter over quarter in early 2026 and are forecast to climb another 58% to 63%, as suppliers divert capacity to AI servers -- repricing the exact component local AI depends on.
Nvidia is reportedly in talks to buy Hugging Face News
Business Insider reports Nvidia is in serious talks to acquire Hugging Face for more than $13 billion, which would put the distribution layer for three million open models -- and the datasets under them -- inside the company that sells the chips they run on.
AWS and NVIDIA add two million more GPUs for 2027 News
AWS and NVIDIA announced plans to deploy 2 million additional GPUs across AWS infrastructure in 2027 and 2028, on top of the million-plus committed in March, including 100,000 GPUs on secure infrastructure for US federal and national-security workloads.
A drone chose its own target in Zaporizhzhia and killed three News
The New York Times reports that a Russian drone that killed three civilians at a Zaporizhzhia gas station on July 6, 2026 selected its final target on its own using an onboard Nvidia Jetson Orin module, in what one analyst calls the first documented case of civilian deaths from a Russian drone with such a system.
The ARC-AGI-3 record going around is the wrong number and the wrong system News
The top ARC-AGI-3 entry on ARC Prize's public leaderboard is an NVIDIA-labelled agent scoring 85.1% on the public demo set at a cost of $332, self-reported and not independently verified, and it is not the AVO system that viral posts credited with a perfect run.
NVIDIA built a 30B model for the boring half of agent work News
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model that activates only 3 billion parameters per token and is aimed at the tool calls and validation steps that consume most of a long-running agent's time.
NVIDIA lines up six financiers to mobilize 500 billion dollars News
NVIDIA announced agreements with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR to build independent financing platforms intended to mobilize more than 500 billion dollars of third-party capital for AI compute infrastructure.
NVIDIA's Open Full-Duplex Voice Model Wants an 80GB GPU News
NVIDIA released an 11-billion-parameter speech model that listens and speaks at the same time and calls tools mid-conversation, and its own documentation requires a GPU with at least 80 GB of memory and lists more than a dozen failure modes.
The "2x GB200 bandwidth" Chinese chip claim is a 2027 projection, and the arithmetic gives 1.67x News
A widely shared claim that a Chinese accelerator delivers twice the memory bandwidth of NVIDIA's GB200 traces to a roadmap part expected in early 2027, compared 64-at-a-time against a full NVIDIA rack, and the published numbers work out to 1.67 times at rack level while the single chip lands below a shipping GB200.
NVIDIA shipped a drop-in kernel that nearly halves video generation time News
NVIDIA released code on July 28 for Sol-Attn, an attention kernel that decides which parts of a long video to compute exactly while approximating the rest inside a single pass, reporting up to 2.1 times faster video generation with no retraining and no weight changes.
NVIDIA launches an open AI security alliance with 41 partners, and OpenAI is not on the list News
NVIDIA announced the Open Secure AI Alliance with 41 inaugural partners including Microsoft, the Linux Foundation, Hugging Face and CrowdStrike, built around the claim that closed APIs blocked forensic work during the Hugging Face breach while an open model did it.
NVIDIA invests in Safe Superintelligence, promising an order-of-magnitude compute jump News
NVIDIA and Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence announced a long-term strategic partnership including an NVIDIA equity investment, which SSI says will expand its available compute by an order of magnitude.
NVIDIA Is Reportedly in Talks to Guarantee $250 Billion of OpenAI's Ohio Buildout News
The Wall Street Journal reports NVIDIA is discussing a roughly $250 billion credit guarantee for the lease and construction debt behind OpenAI's planned 10-gigawatt Ohio campus, a backstop that reportedly excludes the chips themselves.
The open-weights industry letter grew from 25 names to 35 - and OpenAI is on it News
A cross-industry statement titled Open Weights and American AI Leadership now lists 35 signatories on its live Microsoft-hosted page, including OpenAI, Nous Research, GitHub and Cisco, contradicting the widely shared claim that OpenAI declined to sign.
Nvidia's 'Puzzle' pipeline shrinks a 120B model to 75B and roughly doubles serving throughput News
Nvidia's Nemotron-3-Puzzle compresses a 120-billion-parameter model down to 75 billion using a multi-stage pipeline of pruning, distillation, and quantization -- roughly doubling throughput on a B200 node and lifting single-H100 concurrency at long context from one request to eight.
Analysts warn Nvidia's AI boom is being propped up by a circular financing loop with the 'neoclouds' News
An IO Fund analysis details how Nvidia invests billions into GPU-rental 'neoclouds' like CoreWeave that then use that capital to buy Nvidia chips -- a self-reinforcing loop that includes a $6.3 billion Nvidia backstop obligating it to buy CoreWeave's unsold GPU capacity through 2032.
Nvidia is now backstopping the sales of its own chips News
Nvidia formalized a financing program that guarantees a revenue floor for cloud firms buying its GPUs in exchange for a cut of their sales - a move analysts say could help drive AI debt past $7 trillion by 2029.
NVIDIA Starts Taking a Share of Its Cloud Partners' Revenue, Not Just Selling Them Chips News
NVIDIA announced a new arrangement where it earns a share of the cloud revenue its partners generate from NVIDIA-supported data center capacity, on top of its usual chip sales, with first partners Sharon AI and Firmus building campuses totaling hundreds of thousands of GPUs.
NVIDIA's new method stops AI dream-worlds from breaking the laws of physics News
PhysisForcing trains video-generating world models to keep objects solid and interactions believable, raising how often a robot's imagined plan actually works.
NVIDIA's warm-water fix for AI's thirsty data centers News
A new NVIDIA cooling design claims to use almost no water inside the data center, though critics say that's only part of AI's water bill.
NVIDIA shrinks video generation down to real time News
A new NVIDIA recipe distills slow video-generating AI into a fast version that can stream frames live and react to your actions.
Sol-Attn (Sol-Engine) Tool
NVIDIA's drop-in sparse attention kernel for long-video diffusion transformers, released July 28 for HunyuanVideo-13B and Wan2.1-T2V-14B. Screens compressed key/value blocks inside a single online-softmax pass, so exact attention goes where it matters and skipped blocks get an approximate correction. Training-free, no weight changes, reported up to 2.1x for generation and 2.3x for editing. The repo marks end-to-end re-benchmarks for the two integrated pipelines as pending.
Nemotron-ClimbMix Tool
NVIDIA's curated pretraining corpus, and the data behind this week's $998 from-scratch training run. A practical way to substitute somebody else's filtering work for compute you would otherwise spend on mediocre tokens.
Nemotron-3-Puzzle-75B Tool
Nvidia's compressed 75B open model (from a 120B parent) with roughly double the serving throughput and 8x long-context concurrency on a single H100; weights on Hugging Face.
Nemotron IMO 2026 checkpoints Tool
NVIDIA's released specialist checkpoints, training data, 200-problem benchmark and inference recipe behind an officially graded IMO 2026 gold-level score (30 of 42). Each checkpoint is a 1.12 TB download; the model card recommends at least eight B200 GPUs.
NVIDIA Nsight AI (CUDA MCP server) Tool
A vendor-hosted Model Context Protocol server that gives coding agents current CUDA documentation and code examples, plus a self-hosted blueprint for teams that cannot call out. First connection authenticates with an NVIDIA Developer account, and the docs include a one-line command to register it with common agent CLIs.
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Embed 8B Tool
8-billion-parameter retrieval encoder that turns queries and documents into normalized dense vectors for semantic search. NVIDIA claims state-of-the-art results on the multilingual RTEB leaderboard as of July 16; released under OpenMDW 1.1.
NOOA Tool
NVIDIA's open agent framework, contributed as the flagship technical artifact of the Open Secure AI Alliance. Its README is candid that it is research software and that its generated-code checks are not a containment boundary, so run agents in OS-level isolation.
CrowdStrike SafeMind Tool
A paired offensive model (Red Tempest) and defensive model (Blue Solano) built on NVIDIA Nemotron and run inside harnesses that pit them against each other. Operates natively in the Falcon platform; standalone model access is gated behind the Project QuiltWorks program.
Cosmos3-Edge Tool
NVIDIA's compact 4-billion-parameter physical-AI model generates text autoregressively while producing image, video, audio and action-trajectory outputs through a diffusion tower, sized for local robotics, autonomous-vehicle and smart-infrastructure workloads. NVIDIA warns it is not physically accurate simulation or safety-certified reasoning.