Nvidia is getting into the open source reasoning model market.
At the Nvidia GTC event today, the AI giant made a series of hardware and software announcements. Buried amidst the big silicon announcements, the company announced a new set of open source Llama Nemotron reasoning models to help accelerate agentic AI workloads. The new models are an extension of the Nvidia Nemotron models that were…
Nvidia gets industrial software firms to integrate Omniverse to accelerate physical AI
March 19, 2025
Nvidia said the big industrial software and service providers are integrating Omniverse into their platforms to accelerate industrial digitalization with physical AI.
Those integrating Nvidia Omniverse include Ansys, Databricks, Dematic, Omron, SAP, Schneider Electric with…
Nvidia’s GTC 2025 keynote: 40x AI performance leap, open-source ‘Dynamo’, and a walking Star Wars-inspired ‘Blue’ robot
March 19, 2025
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took to the stage at the SAP Center on Tuesday morning, leather jacket intact and without a teleprompter, to deliver what has become one of the most anticipated keynotes in the technology industry. The GPU Technology Conference…
The current AI ecosystem wasn’t built with game developers in mind. While impressive in controlled demos, today’s AI technologies expose critical limitations when transitioning to production-ready games, said Kylan Gibbs, CEO of Inworld AI, in an interview with GamesBeat.
Right now, AI deployment is being slowed because game developers are dependent on black-box APIs with unpredictable pricing…
Mistral AI drops new open-source model that outperforms GPT-4o Mini with fraction of parameters
March 18, 2025
French artificial-intelligence startup Mistral AI unveiled a new open-source model today that the company says outperforms similar offerings from Google and OpenAI, setting the stage for increased competition in a market dominated by U.S. tech giants.
The model, called…
Baidu delivers new LLMs ERNIE 4.5 and ERNIE X1 undercutting DeepSeek, OpenAI on cost — but they’re not open source (yet)
March 18, 2025
Over the weekend, Chinese web search giant Baidu announced the launch of two new AI models, ERNIE 4.5 and ERNIE X1, a multimodal language model and reasoning model, respectively.
Baidu claims they offer state-of-the-art performance on a variety of metrics, besting…
OpenAI’s strategic gambit: The Agents SDK and why it changes everything for enterprise AI
March 17, 2025
OpenAI reshaped the enterprise AI landscape Tuesday with the release of its comprehensive agent-building platform – a package combining a revamped Responses API, powerful built-in tools and an open-source Agents SDK.
While this announcement might have been overshadowed by other AI headlines — Google’s unveiling of the impressive open-source Gemma 3 model, and the emergence of Manus, a…
Launching your first AI project with a grain of RICE: Weighing reach, impact, confidence and effort to create your roadmap
March 17, 2025
Businesses know they can’t ignore AI, but when it comes to building with it, the real question isn’t, What can AI do — it’s, What can it do reliably? And more importantly: Where do you start?
This article introduces a framework to help businesses prioritize AI…
AI has evolved at an astonishing pace. What seemed like science fiction just a few years ago is now an undeniable reality. Back in 2017, my firm launched an AI Center of Excellence. AI was certainly getting better at predictive analytics and many machine learning (ML)…
Netflix Games loses its vice-president of generative AI
March 13, 2025
Five months after Netflix Games announced that generative AI in its game development studios would be a major focus for them, driven by the promotion of Mike Verdu to the vice president in charge of that technology, Verdu has apparently left Netflix Games (confirmed to Stephen Totilo’s Game File) indicating that its embrace of generative AI as a tentpole of game development may have been…
