Linked and quoted from the labs, the press and the people using them. Times in UTC.
Every development we picked up, including smaller stories beyond the labs. Newest first, times in UTC.
NVIDIA released Isaac ROS 5.0, a collection of GPU-accelerated packages built on the ROS open framework. The release targets developers building robotics applications that perceive, reason and act in dynamic environments.
NVIDIA introduced DSX Ready, a program to qualify power and cooling products for AI factories. It aims to help builders choose products that fit complete factory designs as power, cooling, water, site and grid constraints shape deployments.
Nvidia hosted a reception at the Grand Egyptian Museum for Egypt's AI builders, including developers, researchers, startups and enterprises. Nvidia VP Paolo Guglielmini gave a keynote on the country's AI ecosystem.
NVIDIA says its Vera Rubin NVL72 system delivered leading performance in its MLPerf Inference v6.1 debut. The company cites system performance, scaling efficiency and software optimization as key factors in AI inference economics.
Emerald AI, Google and NVIDIA announced the launch of the AI Energy Management Alliance, a coalition focused on data centers that can dynamically manage electricity use. The group aims to advance flexible AI data center operations.
The University of Manchester is using NVIDIA Earth-2 to forecast air pollution across the UK. Traditional chemistry-based air quality models are expensive, limiting detail and frequency.
Salesforce announced Koa, its first CRM reasoning model, built on NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang appeared onstage with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff at Dreamforce.
NVIDIA VP Ian Buck spoke on AI factory efficiency at the AI Infra Summit in Santa Clara, highlighting Vera Rubin and DSX platform advancements for optimizing tokens per watt. The event drew over 8,000 attendees, up from 3,500 last year.
A major children's hospital uses open source NVIDIA AI for cardiac care, according to an NVIDIA blog post. The item describes the hospital's use of NVIDIA's open source AI tools in cardiac treatment.
Perplexity's Portable Computer, a local version of its Perplexity Computer agent, is now available on Windows. It runs local models accelerated by NVIDIA GPUs to plan and carry out multistep tasks while keeping data on the device.
Skild AI launched the S1 robot foundation model, which learns unseen long-horizon tasks from a single video demonstration. It uses NVIDIA physical AI technology.
Nvidia confirmed it will acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion. Nvidia said Hugging Face hosts over 3 million models and is used by over 18 million developers.
Nvidia is buying open-source AI platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, about 80 times its $150 million annual revenue. The deal fits Nvidia's push to invest in open AI models while closed providers move away from Nvidia hardware.
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is an open mixture-of-experts model with 3B active parameters out of 30B total. It is listed on OpenRouter and aimed at high-throughput agentic workloads.