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NVIDIA releases an extended version of the Agent Toolkit, empowering enterprises to build trustworthy agents based on private data.

NVIDIA’s open-source Agent Toolkit has added core components such as the Agent Knowledge Foundation, integrating the CUDA-X libraries, the Nemotron Retriever and Kumo series of open models, the OpenShell secure runtime, and the NemoClaw blueprint. This enables enterprises to build specialized agents that are auditable, controllable, and capable of deeply understanding business semantics—without migrating data or modifying existing workflows.

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NVIDIA releases a portfolio of open-source models across multiple domains, driving the development of sovereign AI in European industries.

NVIDIA announced the expansion of its open-source model family to encompass areas such as language, robotics, bioinformatics, and quantum computing, unveiling the Nemotron 3.5 series, the Kumo structured-data model, the Cosmos world model, the Alpamayo 2 Edge autonomous-driving model, the BioNeMo RFD4-Proteina protein-design model, and the Ising quantum-computing model. All these models are now available to developers and enterprises, with access to weights and tools, supporting localized customization and independent deployment.

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GTC Berlin 2026: Jensen Huang’s keynote comprehensively unveils the AI factory, security agents, and Europe’s AI ecosystem strategy.

At the GTC Berlin 2026 conference held at Berlin’s Tempodrom, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang unveiled several key advancements: the DSX POD modular AI factory, the Vera Rubin full-stack AI agent platform, the OpenShell security architecture, the Agent Knowledge Foundation knowledge layer, and the Agile ONE SN humanoid robot reference platform. He also announced a European AI investment commitment exceeding €10 billion, spanning more than 12,000 partners, while emphasizing that Europe is accelerating the development of an independent, controllable AI economic infrastructure.

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Tenex Builds an AI-Native SDLC: Agent-Driven Development Practices for Fortune 2000 Companies

Tenex, an AI-native software company founded 18 months ago, leverages output‑driven compensation, the MetaHarness framework, and Opus 5.5–powered AI agent workflows to serve roughly half of the Fortune 2000 companies. Its model focuses on process standardization, revaluing non‑coding capabilities, and addressing the last‑mile challenges of enterprise‑level AI deployment.

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Tenex builds an AI-native SDLC: outcome-based pricing, agent-driven development, and the last mile of enterprise AI deployment.

Tenex is an AI-native software delivery company established 18 months ago (as of 2026), with a team of 75 employees, serving roughly half of the Fortune 2000 companies and a comparable number of mid-sized enterprises. Its core practices include: a dynamic engineer compensation system anchored in story points; a quality‑assurance mechanism led by AI strategists; the MetaHarness framework, which embeds context directly within Git; and a capability realignment focused on “high‑value, non‑coding tasks.” Meanwhile, it has been observed that enterprise AI adoption remains concentrated on general‑purpose LLM deployments and engineering‑side agents, with backend office‑type production‑grade AI agents achieving only about 5% penetration.

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NVIDIA launches SimReady Central: an open-source, simulation-ready 3D asset library for robotics and AI factories.

NVIDIA, in collaboration with Hugging Face, has launched SimReady Central, a free and open-source simulation-ready (SimReady) 3D asset library built on OpenUSD. The initial release includes over 2,000 validated industrial-grade assets, covering robot bodies, end-effectors, AI factory infrastructure, and more, enabling developers to rapidly build physics-based AI training environments and digital twin scenarios.

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VocabX: Reduces the inference cost of domain-specific small language models by 77% through cost-weighted vocabulary specialization.

Dharma-AI has introduced the VocabX method, which reconfigures the vocabulary of language models for specific tasks—such as automated scoring of Portuguese essays—by optimizing for cost rather than word frequency. Without modifying the model architecture, parameters, or training pipeline, empirical results show a 77% reduction in inference costs, while the evaluation score (bench score) improved from 0.703 to 0.810.

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TorchNeuron System-Level Performance Analysis (Part 1): End-to-End Profiling Based on the AWS Trainium Chip

This article is the first in a series of technical blog posts jointly published by Hugging Face and Amazon, systematically introducing how to use TorchNeuron on AWS Trainium AI accelerator chips for PyTorch model inference performance analysis. It covers the principles of Neuron backend integration, methods for configuring torch.profiler, the use of NeuronConfig and NeuronProfiler tools, and visualized tracing with Neuron Explorer. Additionally, using RMSNorm as an example, it compares the device‑time differences among three implementations: plain PyTorch, the built-in torch.rms_norm fusion, and torch.compile’s automatic fusion.

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NVIDIA releases Kumo Forecast: a multivariate forecasting model that integrates pre-trained time-series representations, historical pattern retrieval, and interpretability.

NVIDIA has launched the open-source time-series forecasting model Kumo Forecast (formerly NV-Tesseract Forecasting), which is built on the MOMENT-1-large Transformer architecture. It supports both direct prediction and dual-path inference via Domain-Aware Representation and Retrieval (DARR), and includes a built-in interpretability framework that requires no modifications to the model structure.

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Microduck open-source bipedal robot supports both simulation training and real-world deployment: NVIDIA Isaac Lab 3.0 enables a Sim-to-Real closed loop.

Pollen Robotics and Hugging Face have jointly unveiled Microduck, a low-cost, open-source bipedal robot, integrating NVIDIA Isaac Lab 3.0 and the Newton physics engine. It supports training walking policies in GPU-accelerated parallel simulations, with domain randomization and high-fidelity actuator modeling—including backlash, latency, and friction—enhancing robustness during simulation-to-real transfer. The resulting ONNX model can be directly deployed on the physical robot.

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NVIDIA releases Kumo Relational: the first foundation model for structured data that outperforms supervised learning without any training.

NVIDIA has launched Kumo Relational, a pre-trained relational foundation model that can perform predictive tasks—such as churn prediction, fraud detection, and demand forecasting—directly on enterprise‑grade relational databases, without the need for task fine-tuning, feature engineering, or table flattening. In 41 benchmark tests spanning 15 databases, it outperformed supervised models like XGBoost across the board, and on the SAP SALT enterprise benchmark, its MRR metric surpassed AutoGluon by 8%. The model supports databases with up to 500 billion rows and enables zero‑code predictive queries via Predictive Query Language (PQL).

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Google I/O 2026 unveiled AI research and health tools such as Gemini for Science, WeatherNext, and Antigravity 2.0.

At the I/O 2026 conference, Google’s research team unveiled a series of AI systems aimed at scientific discovery, climate forecasting, healthcare, and edge computing, including the multimodal research assistant Gemini for Science, WeatherNext for hurricane early warning, the self‑building operating system platform Antigravity 2.0, and the open‑source quantum chip Willow, among others. All these developments are experimental demonstrations, with no independent validation or regulatory approval yet.

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Google launches zero-trust, aggregated private analytics technology, integrating cryptography with a trusted execution environment.

Google’s research team has unveiled a new private analytics solution that leverages an innovative single-round lattice-based cryptographic aggregation protocol, working in tandem with a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE), to enable data aggregation without relying on any single trusted entity. This approach ensures that user data remains securely stored on the device while delivering group-level anonymized insights.

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