Vol. I · No. 143WED, SEP 9, 2026
Section · Research

Research & Infrastructure

The infrastructure that makes frontier AI possible: Hugging Face, NVIDIA, BAIR, and the tool chains behind the models.

Introducing CUDA Rust: Two Tracks for Writing GPU Kernels

In September 2026, NVIDIA announced it is leaning into native GPU programming in Rust. CUDA C++ and CUDA Python are mature, enterprise-grade toolchains, and... In September 2026, NVIDIA announced it is leaning into native GPU programming in Rust. CUDA C++ and CUDA Python are mature, enterprise-grade toolchains, and NVIDIA will be growing and maturing CUDA Rust into 2027 and beyond The systems layer of AI spans inference engines, serving infrastructure, drivers, and agent runtimes, and it churns constantly as models and techniques change. Source

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Building a Memory-Driven Agent with NVIDIA NemoClaw

Enterprise work spans messages, decisions, projects, and obligations that change over time. An AI agent that starts without this context must reconstruct it... Enterprise work spans messages, decisions, projects, and obligations that change over time. An AI agent that starts without this context must reconstruct it before contributing. To provide agents with this necessary context, our team used NVIDIA NemoClaw to build a memory-driven Chief of Staff. It maintains a human-readable knowledge layer called the self model: an agent memory of relevant… Source

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Frontier Reasoning Reaches the Edge: How to Deploy and Optimize Models on NVIDIA Jetson

Running reasoning and agentic AI at the edge has been harder than it needs to be. Until recently, models capable of multi-step reasoning were too large to run... Running reasoning and agentic AI at the edge has been harder than it needs to be. Until recently, models capable of multi-step reasoning were too large to run locally on edge hardware. Developers building agents have had to route inference through a data center, adding network dependency, increasing costs, and exposing data that may need to stay on device. That constraint is lifting. Source

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How to Carry User Identity Across Federated Kubernetes and AI Platforms

Modern AI platforms are no longer a single application behind one login screen. A user may start in a central portal, open a governed dataset, launch a notebook... Modern AI platforms are no longer a single application behind one login screen. A user may start in a central portal, open a governed dataset, launch a notebook where that data resides, and invoke an assistant that calls services in another cluster. The workflow feels unified, but identity crosses control-plane and data-plane boundaries at every step. That is where conventional single sign-on… Source

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NVIDIA PAIR Virtual Inference Router Expands Available Compute on Your Local Network

AI agents are learning to do more by working together. A lead agent can break a complex task into smaller jobs and assign those jobs to specialized subagents.... AI agents are learning to do more by working together. A lead agent can break a complex task into smaller jobs and assign those jobs to specialized subagents. Additionally, users are starting to run multiple agent sessions at the same time. Multi-agent workflows for accomplishing complex tasks are also becoming more common. This breadth-first approach can improve the speed of task completion… Source

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Co-Designing AI Models Using Speculative Decoding for Faster LLM Inference

This post is the third in a series on AI model co-design. It explores how to accelerate LLM inference while maintaining accuracy using speculative decoding and... This post is the third in a series on AI model co-design. It explores how to accelerate LLM inference while maintaining accuracy using speculative decoding and offers five guidelines for selecting draft length and draft mechanism across the Pareto frontier. For a discussion of how model design choices impact both throughput and interactivity without sacrificing accuracy, see AI Model Co… Source

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Building an Adaptive Agentic Cybersecurity System with NVIDIA Nemotron

AI is changing the pace of cybersecurity. Agentic systems can coordinate work and pursue complex objectives over long horizons. Security teams are beginning to... AI is changing the pace of cybersecurity. Agentic systems can coordinate work and pursue complex objectives over long horizons. Security teams are beginning to apply agents across security operations, but many implementations remain anchored to existing alerts, predefined workflows, and known attack behaviors. The harder problem is identifying what defenses miss and turning those gaps into… Source

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How to Size GPUs for AI Inference and TCO Without Overspending

The surge in AI adoption is transforming everything from chatbots to content generation. Still, a common pain point remains: How can organizations confidently... The surge in AI adoption is transforming everything from chatbots to content generation. Still, a common pain point remains: How can organizations confidently size GPU resources for inference workloads and optimize Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)? With a dizzying mix of latency targets, model choices, quirky traffic patterns, and budget constraints, it’s easy to feel lost in the weeds… Source

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Run NVIDIA BioNeMo NIM Microservices for Protein Structure Prediction in Claude Science

Agentic AI is changing how research is done. AI scientists can read papers, propose hypotheses, call models, and determine which experiments to prioritize next.... Agentic AI is changing how research is done. AI scientists can read papers, propose hypotheses, call models, and determine which experiments to prioritize next. First proving their value in software engineering, coding agents now write, test, and ship production code. Scientific research can be more demanding and iterative. Researchers continually evaluate evidence, refine hypotheses… Source

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Scale AV Perception Across Vehicle Platforms with NVIDIA Omniverse NuRec

A perception stack is shaped by the vehicle that carries it. Move the same software to a new carline—for example, from an SUV to a sedan or another vehicle... A perception stack is shaped by the vehicle that carries it. Move the same software to a new carline—for example, from an SUV to a sedan or another vehicle variant in the portfolio—and its perception of the world changes. The sensor placement, calibration, fields of view, occlusions, body geometry, timing, and coverage all shift. A traffic light may appear in a different part of the frame. Source

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Deploy an Open Model from Checkpoint to Inference in Two Commands with NVIDIA TensorRT Model Connect

Open AI models are evolving faster than ever, but bringing them into native applications can still require model-specific conversion, preprocessing,... Open AI models are evolving faster than ever, but bringing them into native applications can still require model-specific conversion, preprocessing, post-processing, and runtime code. NVIDIA TensorRT Model Connect open collection of reference implementations helps to address this challenge. TensorRT Model Connect shows you how to run supported models with NVIDIA TensorRT in native C++… Source

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NVIDIA NVLink Fusion Brings NVHBM to Next-Generation AI Infrastructure

AI factories must support increasingly large models and more complex reasoning workloads. To keep up with the insatiable compute demands of AI workloads,... AI factories must support increasingly large models and more complex reasoning workloads. To keep up with the insatiable compute demands of AI workloads, hyperscalers and AI-native companies are developing custom AI accelerators, or XPUs. Deploying these accelerators at scale requires high-bandwidth memory (HBM) to keep compute fed, sufficient package and silicon area for more compute… Source

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How to Train a Cross-Embodiment Robot Navigation Policy with AI Agents

Navigation enables a robot to turn perception and motion into purposeful autonomy. Unlike locomotion, which produces stable movement, navigation must be used to... Navigation enables a robot to turn perception and motion into purposeful autonomy. Unlike locomotion, which produces stable movement, navigation must be used to continuously localize the robot, interpret changing surroundings, select a route, and avoid obstacles to reach a goal safely. Moving this capability to a new robot or scene can require new data, simulation assets, robot interfaces… Source

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Experiment with Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 for Agentic Coding

Alibaba released the model weights for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next as a preview of the upcoming Qwen4 architecture for developers to experiment with and evaluate. It’s... Alibaba released the model weights for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next as a preview of the upcoming Qwen4 architecture for developers to experiment with and evaluate. It’s a multimodal mixture-of-experts (MoE) model with a 125B-parameter main model supplemented by an additional 51B N-gram embeddings, with 6B parameters activated per token. It has a native 262,144-token context window, extensible to 1M tokens… Source

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Restore LLM Inference Capacity in Seconds with Shadow Engine Recovery in NVIDIA Dynamo

When an LLM engine process fails, the standard recovery path involves a cold restart. This requires loading weights into HBM from storage, compiling kernels,... When an LLM engine process fails, the standard recovery path involves a cold restart. This requires loading weights into HBM from storage, compiling kernels, and capturing NVIDIA CUDA graphs. For large models, initialization can take several minutes, during which surviving workers must absorb the displaced traffic. Shadow engine recovery, available as a preview feature in NVIDIA Dynamo… Source

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CUDA Python 1.0: Stable APIs, One Foundation, Full Platform Access

For years, a Python developer who needed a GPU had two realistic choices: Learn NVIDIA CUDA C++ well enough to write an extension, set up a build toolchain, and... For years, a Python developer who needed a GPU had two realistic choices: Learn NVIDIA CUDA C++ well enough to write an extension, set up a build toolchain, and maintain bindings back to Python, which most people never did; or move up the stack and let someone else’s library do it, namely PyTorch, CuPy, or RAPIDS. The second option is why the Python GPU ecosystem thrives. But it has limits. Source

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Giga-Scale AI and the Ethernet Evolution: How Spectrum-X Ethernet Rewrites the Rules

The massive growth of generative AI has fundamentally altered data center design. As distributed model training scales to span hundreds of thousands of GPUs,... The massive growth of generative AI has fundamentally altered data center design. As distributed model training scales to span hundreds of thousands of GPUs, the scale-out network connecting these nodes has emerged as a first-order performance bottleneck. For decades, traditional off-the-shelf Ethernet has been the undisputed king of enterprise and cloud networking. It is cheap, standardized… Source

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NVIDIA Vera Rubin and Blackwell Set a New Standard for Agentic AI Performance per Watt

AI agents have expanded inference from single-turn interactions into multi-step workflows that reason, invoke tools, coordinate subagents, and carry growing... AI agents have expanded inference from single-turn interactions into multi-step workflows that reason, invoke tools, coordinate subagents, and carry growing context from one turn to the next. The scale of this shift is now visible in raw consumption: across 100 trillion tokens of real-world usage, OpenRouter’s State of AI report found that average prompt tokens per request grew roughly fourfold… Source

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NVIDIA BlueField-4 Powers New Scale-In Network Infrastructure for Agentic AI Factories

Traditional cloud infrastructure was designed for predictable, general-purpose workloads and standard interfaces. Agentic AI factories connect diverse users,... Traditional cloud infrastructure was designed for predictable, general-purpose workloads and standard interfaces. Agentic AI factories connect diverse users, agents, applications, data sources, and storage systems to massively accelerated compute at multi-terabit bandwidth per server, making dedicated DPU processing essential for line-rate networking, storage, and security. Source

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Solving Agentic AI Fleet Challenges with NVIDIA Vera CPU

AI factories are interconnected systems where fleet economics depend on how efficiently the entire stack converts power and capital into completed agent tasks.... AI factories are interconnected systems where fleet economics depend on how efficiently the entire stack converts power and capital into completed agent tasks. While GPUs run the models, CPUs handle orchestration, tool execution, and sandboxed computation. Unlike conventional computing with stable runtime profiles, agentic workloads are unpredictable and highly variable. Based on telemetry from… Source

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How NVIDIA Groq 3 LPX Unlocks Ultrafast Interactivity at Long Context on NVIDIA Vera Rubin

NVIDIA Groq 3 LPX is the interactive AI inference accelerator for the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform. At the core of the platform is NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72, the... NVIDIA Groq 3 LPX is the interactive AI inference accelerator for the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform. At the core of the platform is NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72, the most versatile machine ever built, delivering high throughput and interactivity across the widest range of AI workloads—from small to large models, both open and closed. Groq 3 LPX, when paired with Vera Rubin NVL72, extends the platform’s… Source

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GPU-Accelerated Clustering for Financial Instruments at Scale

Use AdaptGrow, a GPU-accelerated matrix factorization algorithm, to turn rolling correlation and tail-dependence matrices into hard clusters, soft factor... Use AdaptGrow, a GPU-accelerated matrix factorization algorithm, to turn rolling correlation and tail-dependence matrices into hard clusters, soft factor loadings, and structural-break signals at single-GPU and multi-node scale Quant strategies routinely group instruments for portfolio construction, risk aggregation, statistical arbitrage, and trade surveillance. Incorrect groupings can make… Source

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Maximizing AI Factory Performance per Watt with NVIDIA DSX MaxLPS

AI factories are power-constrained industrial systems. The question is no longer how many GPUs fit in a data center, but how much AI output each available... AI factories are power-constrained industrial systems. The question is no longer how many GPUs fit in a data center, but how much AI output each available megawatt can deliver. For AI inference workloads, this makes application-level performance per watt the key metric for measuring AI factory efficiency. Not every megawatt translates to revenue-generating compute. Power distribution, cooling… Source

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NVIDIA AVO Reaches 100% on ARC-AGI-3, Demonstrating a Frontier-Level General-Purpose Architecture for Long-Horizon Autonomous Agents

A frontier language model is only one component of an AI agent. The surrounding agent system—often called a harness—determines how the model receives... A frontier language model is only one component of an AI agent. The surrounding agent system—often called a harness—determines how the model receives context, uses tools, maintains state, responds to feedback, recovers from failure, and sustains progress over long-running tasks. The challenge is how to build the agent architecture that makes frontier language models work reliably on extended… Source

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Where Security Fits in an AI Agent Stack

As AI agents become more capable and operate over longer horizons, building security and trust into the applications they power becomes increasingly important.... As AI agents become more capable and operate over longer horizons, building security and trust into the applications they power becomes increasingly important. Drawing on work with NVIDIA OpenShell, agent developers, open-source projects, and partners across the ecosystem, AI safety and security teams at NVIDIA offer their perspective on the emerging agent stack—including the role of each layer… Source

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How Generative Recommenders Are Redefining RecSys at Scale

Recommender systems (RecSys) are one of the most ubiquitous machine learning problems in the consumer internet industry yet notoriously difficult to train and... Recommender systems (RecSys) are one of the most ubiquitous machine learning problems in the consumer internet industry yet notoriously difficult to train and serve at scale. The advent of LLMs has inspired a shift from the traditional embedding-similarity-based objective to a generative one, where the goal is to predict the next action or item in a large catalog given a sequence of user histories. Source

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Developing NVIDIA Holoscan applications with CLI, skills, and AI coding agents

NVIDIA Holoscan is a platform for building real-time AI applications at the edge, from medical imaging to robotics. HoloHub is its companion repository: a... NVIDIA Holoscan is a platform for building real-time AI applications at the edge, from medical imaging to robotics. HoloHub is its companion repository: a growing collection of reference applications and components that demonstrate what’s possible. We wanted to explore how a general-purpose coding agent could use the same examples, documentation, and development tools available to an engineer… Source

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Building Federated Multimodal AI Workflows with NVIDIA FLARE

Modern vision-language models (VLMs) can support tasks such as visual question answering, captioning, and image-text reasoning. In practice, however, the data... Modern vision-language models (VLMs) can support tasks such as visual question answering, captioning, and image-text reasoning. In practice, however, the data needed to adapt these models may be distributed across institutions or organizations that cannot centralize their raw records. Federated learning provides a way to coordinate training across these data-local sites. For VLMs… Source

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Post-Train NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Edge for On-Device Robot Control

Robots need policies that can adapt to their sensors, environments, and tasks while running on onboard computing hardware. World models offer a foundation for... Robots need policies that can adapt to their sensors, environments, and tasks while running on onboard computing hardware. World models offer a foundation for learning physical interactions, but their size can make on-device deployment difficult. This changes with the new NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Edge. Cosmos 3 Edge is a 4B omni-model (with a 2B NVIDIA Nemotron-based reasoner) in the Cosmos 3 family. Source

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Evaluating AI Agent Skill Performance with NVIDIA SkillEvaluator

AI agents are only as effective as the context they receive. Even with capable models and well-documented NVIDIA libraries, agents can spend extra steps finding... AI agents are only as effective as the context they receive. Even with capable models and well-documented NVIDIA libraries, agents can spend extra steps finding the right tools, burn tokens on dead ends, or struggle with specialized tasks. Skills package the instructions, examples, and tool guidance for agents to move faster from intent to solution. To measure whether these skills improve agent… Source

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