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NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, a 120B Open Multimodal Agent Model

NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, an open vision-language agent model with 120B total parameters and 12B active per token in a mixture-of-experts design, supporting text, image, document and video input with up to 1M-token context. It ships with an NVFP4 checkpoint runnable on a single DGX Spark, H200 or GB200, plus open datasets, training recipes and RL environments in NeMo Gym under the OpenMDW-1.1 license. NVIDIA-reported results include 89.90 on GPQA-Diamond and 71.07 on SWE-bench Verif

Why it matters: Developers get a concrete, deployable open multimodal agent model with published weights, licensing, hardware requirements and benchmark numbers to weigh against alternatives.

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NVIDIA Expands Nemotron Family With Open Super VL and Bolt Models

NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, an open 120-billion-parameter vision-language model aimed at multimodal agentic tasks such as tool use, instruction following and document understanding, along with open weights, datasets and training recipes. It also introduced two edge models, Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B 24GB for local agentic workloads and Bolt E4B 4GB for conversational and physical agents. Super VL and Bolt 74B-A9B are available now, with Bolt E4B due Oct. 23. NVIDIA says several organiz

Why it matters: It gives readers concrete details on three newly released open models spanning data center to edge, including deployment options, availability and enterprise customization efforts.

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NVIDIA Announces New Investments in France’s Startups

NVIDIA announced planned investments in Doctolib, Entalpic, Genesis AI and Pigment, covering healthcare agents, materials discovery, physical AI and business planning. The post also details France-based agentic computing deployments, including Bull extending European AI server production to NVIDIA Vera Rubin Ultra NVL72 systems planned for 2028 and the Altair-1 satellite using NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin modules and Mistral models. It highlights Nemotron open model adoption across French public-secto

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Microsoft debuts Surface Laptop Ultra with Nvidia RTX Spark SoC and Windows AI changes

Microsoft held its first live event in two years, announcing the Surface Laptop Ultra, its first device with the Nvidia RTX Spark SoC, starting at $2,599 and shipping October 16. The laptop offers up to 128GB unified memory and Blackwell GPU configurations, aimed at developers and enthusiasts for local AI development and gaming. Microsoft also outlined Windows 11 changes tied to local-AI and agentic workflows.

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NVIDIA and Microsoft Bring AI Agents to Windows With RTX Spark PCs and DGX Station

At a Microsoft event in San Francisco, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella detailed co-engineered hardware and software for running AI agents on Windows PCs. Microsoft announced general availability of Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC), OS-level infrastructure for secure, persistent background agents. NVIDIA introduced RTX Spark, putting the full NVIDIA AI stack into Windows laptops and compact desktops, and previewed DGX Station for Windows, a deskside system with 748GB c

Why it matters: It marks a concrete platform shift toward local, agent-ready AI on Windows, with named hardware, software and availability details developers and IT buyers can act on.

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OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast Runs on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs with Up to 8x Faster Token Generation

NVIDIA and OpenAI announced that GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast, running on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, is now available in the OpenAI API and to eligible ChatGPT Work and Codex users. Ultrafast delivers up to 8x faster token generation than Astra Standard mode, aimed at shortening coding agents' edit-test-debug cycles and reducing latency between tool calls. OpenAI says it used its own models to optimize inference software on NVIDIA's programmable platform. The companies describe ongoing collaboration to kee

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Nvidia and LG Partner to Develop AI-Powered Humanoid Robots and Next-Gen Data Centers

Nvidia and LG Group have officially announced a strategic partnership to jointly develop AI-driven humanoid robots and next-generation data center infrastructure. By integrating Nvidia’s advanced artificial intelligence capabilities and computing pla<!--autointro-->

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AI Super-Connected Era: Why CPO is the Next Trillion-Dollar Semiconductor Opportunity

Since ChatGPT burst onto the scene at the end of 2022, AI has successively ignited one semiconductor super-cycle after another, involving computing power (GPUs), storage power (memory), and command scheduling power (CPUs), creating multiple trillion-<!--autointro-->

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AI Chip Cost Shift: HBM Memory Now Accounts for 63% of Component Spending

The cost pressure in the AI chip industry is shifting from &quot;who has the most powerful logic chip&quot; to &quot;who can secure enough high-bandwidth memory (HBM) at a reasonable price.&quot;According to estimates released by Epoch AI on May 21, <!--autointro-->

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NVIDIA Unveils Space Computing Platform with Space-1 Vera Rubin Module to Power Orbital AI

📰 Press Release: NVIDIA Brings AI to Orbit with New Space Computing PlatformSAN JOSE, Calif. — GTC — March 16, 2026&nbsp;— NVIDIA today announced the dawn of a new era in space innovation with its latest generation of accelerated computing platforms.<!--autointro-->

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NVIDIA and Google Cloud Surpass 100,000 Developers to Accelerate AI Innovation

NVIDIA and Google Cloud Empower Over 100,000 AI Developers to Accelerate InnovationAt the Google I/O conference, NVIDIA and Google Cloud announced a major milestone: their joint developer community has surpassed 100,000 members. By providing carefull<!--autointro-->

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