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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang denied reports of unhappiness with OpenAI and reaffirmed the company's commitment to a major investment in the ChatGPT maker, clarifying that while it won't be the previously announced $100 billion, it will still be 'probably the largest investment we've ever made.' Huang expressed confidence in OpenAI's work and its significance as one of the most consequential AI companies.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang confirmed the company will make a significant investment in OpenAI's latest funding round, though he clarified it won't reach the $100 billion scale of their previously announced data center partnership. The announcement comes after reports that the two companies were reconsidering their earlier nonbinding agreement, though Huang emphasized his confidence in OpenAI's work and vision.
China has approved DeepSeek and other major tech companies (ByteDance, Alibaba, Tencent) to purchase NVIDIA's H200 AI chips, with ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent collectively approved for 400,000 units. The approvals follow new US regulations allowing NVIDIA to sell H200 processors to vetted Chinese companies and reflect China's ongoing efforts to secure advanced AI hardware despite developing domestic alternatives.
Mercedes-Benz unveiled a new S-Class built on NVIDIA's DRIVE AV platform, featuring a level 4-ready autonomous driving architecture designed for future robotaxi operations. The vehicle integrates NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion with sensor redundancy, multimodal perception, and parallel AI/safety stacks to handle complex driving scenarios, and will be deployed through Uber's mobility network as part of a strategic partnership between the automakers and NVIDIA.
NVIDIA announced a comprehensive suite of open physical AI models and frameworks at CES 2026 to accelerate robotics and autonomous systems development, including new tools for simulation, synthetic data generation, and edge deployment. The stack was demonstrated through real-world applications including Caterpillar's AI-assisted heavy equipment, LEM Surgical's FDA-cleared robotic surgical system, and NEURA Robotics' humanoid and service robots, all leveraging NVIDIA's Omniverse, Isaac, and foundation model technologies.
The models come as part of the company's Earth-2 platform, pitched as the first fully open AI weather software stack.
Fauna Robotics, a New York-based startup, has introduced Sprout, a humanoid development platform designed to democratize embodied AI research and applications. Standing 107 cm tall and weighing 22.7 kg, Sprout features 29 degrees of freedom, safety-focused design, and an NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin processor to enable developers to build general-purpose robotics applications in everyday environments without specialized expertise.
China has approved imports of Nvidia's H200 AI chips for ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent after weeks of uncertainty, allowing the three companies to purchase over 400,000 chips combined. The approval represents a strategic decision by Beijing to support its major tech companies' AI development while balancing concerns about nurturing domestic semiconductor capabilities and maintaining geopolitical competition with the United States.
China has approved imports of NVIDIA's H200 AI GPU chips after initially rejecting them, with several hundred thousand units approved for sale to three major Chinese internet companies following CEO Jensen Huang's visit. The H200 is NVIDIA's second most powerful AI chip, though the more advanced Blackwell B200 remains restricted from export to China due to US government regulations.
Nvidia invested $2 billion in CoreWeave, a cloud infrastructure provider specializing in AI workloads, significantly expanding their existing partnership. This investment strengthens CoreWeave's position in the competitive AI infrastructure market and demonstrates Nvidia's commitment to supporting the broader AI ecosystem beyond its core chip business.
NVIDIA has launched the Earth-2 family of open models, described as the world's first fully open and accelerated set of models and tools specifically designed for AI weather prediction. The release includes both models and tools that developers can freely use and integrate into their own applications.
Mercedes-Benz CLA equipped with NVIDIA DRIVE AV software won Euro NCAP's Best Performer of 2025 award, achieving the highest overall safety score by combining passive safety features with AI-powered driver assistance systems. The DRIVE AV platform uses a dual-stack architecture pairing end-to-end AI driving with classical safety systems, incorporating sensor redundancy and achieving ISO 26262 ASIL D compliance for autonomous vehicle safety.
YouTube channel Hardware Unboxed is reporting that ASUS has stopped producing the RTX 5070 Ti and 5060 Ti 16GB due to the ongoing memory crunch. In its most recent video, the channel states ASUS “expl...
AI-powered content generation is now embedded in everyday tools like Adobe and Canva, with a slew of agencies and studios incorporating the technology into their workflows. Image models now deliver ph...
A new NVIDIA survey of over 800 financial services industry professionals reveals that AI adoption has reached unprecedented levels, with 89% reporting increased revenue and decreased costs from AI deployments. The report highlights growing investment in open source foundation models, generative AI, and AI agents, with 84% of organizations viewing open source as crucial to their AI strategy and 42% already using or assessing agentic AI.
Cerebras secured a $10B deal with OpenAI to provide its wafer-scale chips as an alternative to Nvidia's processors for training large language models. The partnership represents a significant validation of Cerebras's hardware approach and a potential shift in the AI infrastructure market away from Nvidia's dominance.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang described AI as the foundation of the largest infrastructure buildout in human history at the World Economic Forum in Davos, framing it as a five-layer platform spanning energy, chips, data centers, AI models, and applications. Huang argued that AI will create jobs across the economy rather than eliminate them, as productivity gains in fields like radiology and nursing enable workers to focus on higher-value tasks while demand for skilled labor increases across manufacturing, healthcare, and other industries.
Skild AI raised $1.4 billion to develop the Skild Brain, an omni-bodied robotics foundation model that can control diverse robot morphologies—including humanoids, quadrupeds, and manipulator arms—without prior knowledge of their specific design. The model uses in-context learning and training on human videos and simulations to adapt to different bodies and unpredictable scenarios in real-time, addressing the challenge of building general-purpose AI for robotics across multiple deployment contexts.
NVIDIA kicked off the year at CES, where the crowd buzzed about the latest gaming announcements — including the native GeForce NOW app for Linux and Amazon Fire TV sticks, community-requested flight-c...
Caterpillar and NVIDIA announced an expanded partnership to develop AI-enhanced construction, mining, and manufacturing equipment using NVIDIA's Jetson Thor platform for real-time AI inference. The collaboration aims to enable autonomous operations, intelligent in-cab AI assistants, fleet intelligence, and advanced manufacturing systems including digital twins built on NVIDIA Omniverse.
NVIDIA and Eli Lilly announced a joint AI co-innovation lab focused on drug discovery, with up to $1 billion in investment over five years to combine pharmaceutical expertise with AI capabilities. The lab will operate under a scientist-in-the-loop framework integrating computational AI with wet lab experiments to accelerate molecular discovery and biological modeling for pharmaceutical development.
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Multiply Labs is advancing robotics-driven biomanufacturing for cell therapy by scaling AI-powered lab automation. The company is leveraging open-source robotics frameworks and AI models, including NVIDIA's physical AI initiatives, to enable autonomous systems that accelerate cell therapy production and research.
PepsiCo is partnering with Siemens and NVIDIA to implement digital twin technology and AI systems to optimize its supply chain operations. The initiative aims to improve efficiency and decision-making across PepsiCo's logistics and manufacturing processes using advanced simulation and AI-driven insights.
The product releases come amid a tight partnership with AI giant Nvidia and increasing interest in using new AI technology in manufacturing.
NVIDIA has unveiled two new AI blueprints for retail: a Multi-Agent Intelligent Warehouse (MAIW) system that coordinates AI agents across warehouse IT and operational technology layers to improve inventory management and decision-making, and a Retail Catalog Enrichment blueprint for product data optimization. These open-source developer references enable retailers to deploy AI solutions across their supply chain and warehouse operations.
Japan's Science and Technology Agency is developing AIREC (AI-Driven Robot for Embrace and Care), NVIDIA-powered humanoid robots designed to assist elderly care through tasks like cooking, cleaning, hygiene care, and patient repositioning. The Moonshot research program integrates NVIDIA GPUs and Isaac Sim simulation technology to train these robots, with recent research focusing on automating complex caregiving actions like repositioning patients to prevent bed sores while applying appropriate force levels.
This podcast episode covers major AI industry news from late 2025, including Nvidia's $20 billion acquisition of AI chip startup Groq, Meta's purchase of AI startup Manus, and the launch of GLM-4.7 by Zhipu AI. The episode also discusses AI policy developments like New York's RAISE Act, research advancements in AI agents and foundation models, and evaluations of long-horizon AI agent capabilities and costs.
NVIDIA is wrapping up a big week at the CES trade show with a set of GeForce NOW announcements that are bringing more ways to play and more games to the cloud. From new native apps for Linux and Amazo...
Caterpillar is integrating edge AI and NVIDIA's Rubin Platform technology into jobsite equipment to enable autonomous operation and real-time decision-making at construction and mining sites. The initiative represents a major shift toward autonomous heavy equipment in industrial applications by leveraging advanced sensors and on-device AI capabilities.
The automaker will be the first to utilize Alpamayo, a new family of open source models created to tackle long-tail autonomous driving challenges.
NVIDIA's third annual State of AI in Retail and CPG survey reveals widespread AI adoption across retail and supply chain operations, with 91% of companies actively using or assessing AI technologies including demand forecasting, warehouse automation, and agentic AI systems. The report shows significant business impact, with 89% of respondents reporting increased revenue and 95% reporting reduced costs, while 47% are piloting or using AI agents in their operations.
The AI giant also unveiled simulation frameworks and edge computing hardware.
Nvidia announced the Vera Rubin AI chip at CES 2026, offering significant efficiency improvements for AI model training and inference, along with Alpamayo, an open-source autonomous driving AI model that enables human-like reasoning for vehicles like Mercedes-Benz's new CLA. The article also covers critical AI safety issues including xAI's Grok image editing tool generating nonconsensual sexualized content including of minors, prompting regulatory action from France and India, and New York's passage of the RAISE Act for AI safety regulation.
Announced at the CES trade show running this week in Las Vegas, NVIDIA is bringing more devices, more games and more ways to play to its GeForce NOW cloud gaming service. Powered by GeForce RTX 5080-c...
NVIDIA announced RTX accelerations for AI video generation on PC, including up to 3x performance improvements for generative AI via PyTorch-CUDA optimizations and native NVFP4/FP8 precision support in ComfyUI. The company released an RTX-powered video generation pipeline enabling 4K video creation with 60% VRAM reduction, powered by Lightricks' new LTX-2 open-weights audio-video model that can generate up to 20 seconds of 4K video locally.
Nvidia announced six new AI chips and open models, demonstrating continued innovation in the AI hardware and software landscape. The releases highlight customer concerns about vendor lock-in as they evaluate AI infrastructure options.
At the CES trade show, NVIDIA today announced DLSS 4.5, which introduces Dynamic Multi Frame Generation, a new 6X Multi Frame Generation mode and a second-generation transformer model for DLSS Super R...
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced the Rubin platform at CES 2026, a new six-chip AI architecture in full production that reduces AI inference token costs to one-tenth of previous generations. Huang also unveiled Alpamayo, an open reasoning model for autonomous vehicles, and highlighted NVIDIA's portfolio of open-source AI models across healthcare, climate science, robotics, embodied intelligence, and autonomous driving.
Facebook has published details on KernelEvolve, an AI system that uses LLMs (Llama, GPT, Claude) to automate the design of optimized software kernels for AI model inference, reducing development time from weeks to hours and achieving up to 17x performance improvements over baselines. The system continuously runs in Meta's production infrastructure to optimize hundreds of models across heterogeneous hardware platforms including NVIDIA GPUs, AMD GPUs, and Meta's custom MTIA chips, demonstrating a practical example of AI systems automating parts of AI infrastructure development.
NVIDIA has expanded its Enterprise AI Factory validated design to integrate NVIDIA BlueField cybersecurity and acceleration capabilities with leading software platforms from partners like Check Point, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, and Red Hat. BlueField offloads networking, storage, security and orchestration tasks to a dedicated processor, enabling enterprises to scale AI workloads with consistent performance while maintaining hardware-accelerated, real-time security across the entire AI pipeline.
NVIDIA announced the Rubin platform at CES, comprising six new chips designed for large-scale AI computing with a focus on agentic AI, mixture-of-experts models, and long-context reasoning. The platform delivers up to 10x reduction in inference token cost compared to previous generations and integrates with the DGX SuperPOD to create scalable AI supercomputers for enterprise and research environments.
This podcast episode covers major AI developments including Google's launch of Gemini 3 Flash, OpenAI's GPT-5.2-Codex release, and Nvidia's new Nemotron 3 open-source models. The episode also discusses significant funding rounds for AI startups like Lovable ($330M Series B) and Fal ($140M Series D), along with policy developments such as Google partnering with the US military on AI platforms and OpenAI's focus on biosecurity risks.
NVIDIA announced DGX Spark and DGX Station deskside AI supercomputers at CES, enabling developers to run large open-source and frontier AI models locally—from 100-billion-parameter models on DGX Spark to 1-trillion-parameter models on DGX Station powered by Grace Blackwell architecture. The systems feature optimizations like NVFP4 compression (up to 70% model compression) and collaborative improvements with open-source projects like llama.cpp, delivering 35% performance uplift on average for running state-of-the-art AI models.
NVIDIA announced an expansion of its DRIVE Hyperion autonomous driving ecosystem at CES, adding major tier-1 suppliers and sensor partners including Bosch, Magna, Sony, and ZF Group to accelerate level 4 autonomous vehicle development. The unified platform integrates compute, sensors, and safety systems to streamline development across passenger vehicles and commercial freight transport, with partners qualifying sensor suites and building domain controllers on the production-ready architecture.
Nvidia is acquiring AI chip startup Groq's assets for approximately $20 billion, marking Nvidia's largest deal on record, while also licensing Groq's inference technology. OpenAI has opened ChatGPT to third-party app developers via its Platform. The news also covers the US AI Genesis Mission, reflecting significant consolidation and expansion in the AI industry.
NVIDIA is launching its DRIVE AV software in the new Mercedes-Benz CLA, bringing advanced level 2 autonomous driving capabilities to U.S. roads by end of year. The system combines an AI end-to-end stack with a classical safety stack for redundancy, enabling features like point-to-point urban navigation, collision avoidance, and automated parking powered by deep learning models trained on real and synthetic driving data.
This podcast episode discusses major AI developments including DeepSeek 3.2's improved performance and cost efficiency, shifts in AI hardware competition with Google TPUs gaining adoption over NVIDIA, and significant business moves like Anthropic's IPO preparations and OpenAI's strategic acquisitions. The episode also covers emerging research in AI reasoning architectures, multi-agent systems, and mathematical reasoning capabilities in language models.
Google launches Gemini 3, its most capable foundation model to date, featuring new coding capabilities and record benchmark scores. The release highlights major AI model announcements from the week including Anthropic's Opus 4.5 and other significant AI developments.
Periodic Labs has raised from a tech industry who's who, including Andreessen Horowitz, Nvidia, Elad Gil, Jeff Dean, Eric Schmidt, and Jeff Bezos.
