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Our approach to bioresilience
Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs are sharing our joint approach to bioresilience and AI models.
How Codex became a collaborator for OpenAI’s creative team
How OpenAI’s creative team uses Codex to build custom creative tools, accelerate ideation, and prototype faster with context-aware AI.
How Cars24 scales conversations and builds faster with OpenAI
Cars24 uses OpenAI-powered voice and chat agents to handle 1M+ monthly conversation minutes, recover 12% of lost leads, and bring agentic workflows to teams across the company.
Security incident disclosure — July 2026
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Build a Multi-Camera 3D Tracking Application with NVIDIA DeepStream 9.1 Skills
Developers building video analytics applications across large spaces must track the same object as it moves between camera views. Single-camera 2D tracking...
Develop Lightweight USD Runtimes Faster with AI Agents
OpenUSD is an open, extensible framework that provides a common scene description language for physical AI. It enables teams to bring CAD data, simulation...
Building Faster Cryptography with Carryless Multiplication in NVIDIA CUDA 13.3
For over fifteen years, x86 CPUs have shipped with a dedicated hardware instruction for carryless multiplication. It’s a small but stubborn primitive that...
Model Routing Is Simple. Until It Isn’t.
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Exploring Hierarchical Interest Representation For Meta Ads Deep Funnel Optimization
Hierarchical Interest Representation is a research area for Meta Ads. We’re exploring an upstream representation layer over the universe of Ads entities – users, advertisers, products, services – learning unified embeddings that connect users’ inferred interests with the breadth of what advertisers ...
The US is advancing AI safety through state and federal action
OpenAI outlines a “reverse federalism” approach to AI governance, where state laws help build a national framework for safe, democratic AI.
GPT-Red: Unlocking Self-Improvement for Robustness
Explore GPT-Red, OpenAI’s automated red teaming system that uses self-play to improve AI safety, alignment, and prompt injection robustness.
Welcome Inkling by Thinking Machines
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Introducing Real World VoiceEQ: Measuring the human quality of voice AI
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Lessons From the Leaderboard: What 5,000+ Kagglers Taught Us About Improving AI Reasoning
The NVIDIA Nemotron Model Reasoning Challenge invited the Kaggle community to explore a focused question: What techniques can improve reasoning accuracy when...
How to Run an Autoresearch Workflow with RL Agent Skills and NVIDIA NeMo
Coding AI agents are becoming practical operators for long-running machine learning (ML) workflows. They can inspect repositories, set up runtimes, resolve...
Post-Train NVIDIA Cosmos 3 in One Day Using Agent Skills
What if autonomous coding AI agents could push your vision reasoning models above 90% accuracy with almost no manual effort? When adapting vision reasoning...
How to manage AI investments in the agentic era
Learn how enterprises can manage AI investments in the agentic era by measuring useful work per dollar, improving efficiency, and scaling high-value workflows.
Data science workflows with ChatGPT Work
Learn practical ChatGPT Work workflows for root-cause briefs, KPI memos, scoped analyses, and dashboard specifications.
Sales workflows with ChatGPT Work
Learn practical ChatGPT Work workflows for pipeline briefs, meeting prep, account plans, forecast reviews, and deal diagnosis.
NVIDIA Ising Decoding Cuts Color Code Logical Error Rates by Over 300x
Useful quantum computers will require fault tolerant logical operations. Researchers are actively exploring many different quantum error correction (QEC) codes...
Modernizing the Meta Ads Service With an Open-Source Kernel Scheduler
TL; DR At Meta’s scale, a few milliseconds of latency degradation can have a significant negative impact on ads performance. When a Linux kernel upgrade risked regressing latency across Meta’s ad serving fleet, we turned to sched_ext — the upstream, BPF-based extensible scheduling framework — to bui...
Extreme Event Likelihoods with Guided Generative Models
Across science, engineering, and finance, many of the most important risks come from low-likelihood, high-impact events. Estimating the probability of these...
Empowering India’s next generation of innovators with ATL Saathi
Google and AIM launched ATL Saathi, a Gemini-powered AI tool empowering Indian educators in robotics labs.
How to Evaluate General-Purpose Robot Policies for Real-World Deployment
Robotics foundation models have made remarkable progress. Today's best systems can follow natural language instructions to pick, place, sort, and manipulate a...
Reducing High-Bandwidth Memory Bottlenecks in JAX-Based LLM Training with Host Offloading
Large language model (LLM) training workloads increasingly run into GPU memory limits before compute is fully used. Model weights, gradients, optimizer states,...