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Unlocking UK house-building with AI-accelerated planning
UK government partners with Google DeepMind to build a new AI-powered prototype aimed at faster housing decisions.
Build Your Own Transaction Foundation Model for Financial Intelligence
Every swipe, transfer, and payment on a modern financial network encodes a pattern of human behavior. Transaction data is one of the richest signals an...
NVIDIA Blackwell Tops MLPerf Training 6.0 with Industry-Leading Scale and Performance
NVIDIA delivered a clean sweep in MLPerf Training v6.0, the latest edition of industry-standard AI training benchmarks developed by the MLCommons consortium....
Build On-Device AI Companions with the NVIDIA ACE Game Agent SDK and Unreal Engine 5 Plugins
NVIDIA RTX technologies are deeply integrated into Unreal Engine 5 through the NVIDIA RTX Branch of Unreal Engine and the NVIDIA DLSS Unreal Engine plugin. This...
How to Optimize Transformer-Based Models for Low-Precision Training
Transformer architectures are the backbone of many modern large language and generative AI models. As these models grow in size, training runs consume more GPU...
Securing the future of AI agents
Securing internal systems with an AI Control Roadmap, combining traditional safeguards and real-time monitoring.
Predicting model behavior before release by simulating deployment
OpenAI introduces Deployment Simulation, a method to predict AI model behavior before deployment using real conversation data to improve safety and evaluation accuracy.
Fine-Tuning Biological Foundation Models with LoRA Using NVIDIA BioNeMo Recipes
Foundation models are reshaping computational biology. Pretrained on massive corpora of protein or genomic sequences, models such as ESM2 (a protein language...
Boosting MoE Training Throughput with Advanced Fusion Kernels
Mixture-of-experts (MoE) models have quickly become a foundational component of modern, large-scale AI systems. They are widely adopted because they enable...
Pretrained to Imagine, Fine-Tuned to Act: The Rise of World-Action Models
Quick glossary for readers new to VLA/WAM terminology VLA Vision-Language-Action model: a robot policy that starts from a pretrained VLM backbone and adapts it...
Introducing the OpenAI Partner Network
OpenAI launches the Partner Network, investing $150M to help global partners accelerate enterprise AI adoption, deployment, and transformation.
NVIDIA Achieves Leading Agentic Coding Performance on First Agentic AI Benchmark
AI agents have fundamentally changed the complexity of inference workloads. Until now, the industry has struggled to define a standard for measuring how...
Run DiffusionGemma on NVIDIA for Developer-Ready, High-Throughput Text Generation
Developers building real-time AI—such as chat assistants, copilots, and agentic workflows—are often constrained by token-by-token generation speed. This...
Deploy Long-Context Reasoning and Agentic Workflows with MiniMax M3 on NVIDIA Accelerated Infrastructure
As enterprise AI adoption scales, developers are increasingly forced to stitch together fragmented pipelines—separate models for text, vision, and...
New OpenAI Academy courses for the next era of work
OpenAI introduces three Academy courses that help people build practical AI skills, create repeatable workflows, and apply agents in everyday work.
How Preply combines AI and human tutors to personalize learning
Preply uses OpenAI to launch AI-generated lesson summaries, providing personalised feedback and language learning exercises.
One-Click Multi-Tenant Security with NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand
NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand now offers intent-based security profiles in Unified Fabric Manager (UFM) that enable multi-tenant fabric security in a single...
How an astrophysicist uses Codex to help simulate black holes
Discover how astrophysicist Chi-kwan Chan uses Codex to build black hole simulations, helping scientists study extreme physics and test Einstein’s theory of general relativity.
BBVA puts AI at the core of banking with OpenAI
Learn how BBVA scaled ChatGPT Enterprise to 100,000 employees and partnered with OpenAI to accelerate AI-powered banking transformation worldwide.
OpenAI to acquire Ona
OpenAI plans to acquire Ona to expand Codex with secure, persistent cloud environments, enabling long-running AI agents across enterprise workflows.
Supporting Europe’s work in ensuring a trustworthy AI ecosystem
OpenAI supports the EU Code of Practice on AI content transparency, advancing provenance standards and tools to help people understand AI-generated content.
Profiling in PyTorch (Part 2): From nn.Linear to a Fused MLP
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Access OpenAI models and Codex through your Oracle cloud commitment
Access OpenAI models and Codex through Oracle Cloud, using existing commitments to build and deploy AI with enterprise security and governance.
DiffusionGemma: 4x faster text generation
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Designing Production-Ready Battery Energy Storage Systems for AI Factories
AI factories are changing what data-center infrastructure must do. Unlike traditional data centers, AI factories are built to manufacture intelligence at scale....