Evaluating an AI model and evaluating an AI agent are related—but they answer fundamentally different questions. A model benchmark tests the capability of a...

Evaluating an AI model and evaluating an AI agent are related—but they answer fundamentally different questions. A model benchmark tests the capability of a foundation model (how well it understands language, follows instructions, or solves problems on static tasks). An agent evaluation tests the behavior of a system operating end-to-end—planning, calling tools, handling uncertainty…

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Agentic inference has fundamentally changed the runtime dynamics of inference workloads by introducing non-deterministic trajectories—actions, observations,...

Agentic inference has fundamentally changed the runtime dynamics of inference workloads by introducing non-deterministic trajectories—actions, observations, and decisions that an AI agent produces while working through a task. These trajectories compound end-to-end latency across hundreds of inference requests per session. NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 handles the bulk of that inference load as…

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A massive-scale X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) enables tracking structural and electron dynamics in novel systems, including fusion materials, semiconductors,...

A massive-scale X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) enables tracking structural and electron dynamics in novel systems, including fusion materials, semiconductors, batteries, and catalysis. It produces ultrashort X-ray pulses that can record the movements of atoms and electrons. These instruments can detect the smallest change in material structure caused by defects and other influences.

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In today’s data-driven world, organizations increasingly rely on video to capture critical information, yet extracting meaningful, real-time insights from...

In today’s data-driven world, organizations increasingly rely on video to capture critical information, yet extracting meaningful, real-time insights from massive amounts of footage remains a challenge. NVIDIA Metropolis Blueprint for video search and summarization (VSS) overcomes this hurdle by transforming millions of live video streams or hours of recorded video into instantly searchable…

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The path from a trained AI model to production should be smooth, but rarely is. Many teams invest weeks fine-tuning models, only to discover that exporting to a...

The path from a trained AI model to production should be smooth, but rarely is. Many teams invest weeks fine-tuning models, only to discover that exporting to a deployment format breaks layers, input shapes cause runtime failures, or version mismatches silently degrade performance. These issues are collectively known as pipeline friction, and they cost organizations time, money…

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The compute capability of large GPU fleets presents unprecedented opportunities to innovate and provide value to customers in record time. Yet these...

The compute capability of large GPU fleets presents unprecedented opportunities to innovate and provide value to customers in record time. Yet these advancements come with a variety of challenges. At scale, teams are juggling heterogeneous hardware, fast‑moving software stacks, tight power envelopes, and spiky, multitenant workloads. A single hotspot, misconfigured driver, or subtle hardware fault…

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Bash is one of the most flexible and powerful interfaces exposed to AI agents. In the right system, a model that emits grep, curl, tar, or a shell pipeline is...

Bash is one of the most flexible and powerful interfaces exposed to AI agents. In the right system, a model that emits , , , or a shell pipeline is producing an executable action that can read files, mutate a workspace, open network connections, and chain tools together. For the NVIDIA AI Red Team, this makes command generation a useful research target. If smaller language models can be guided…

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An agentic exchange must preserve a structured interaction: assistant turns interleave reasoning with one or more tool calls, and subsequent user turns return...

An agentic exchange must preserve a structured interaction: assistant turns interleave reasoning with one or more tool calls, and subsequent user turns return the corresponding tool results to the model context. Reasoning replay is model- and turn-dependent: some reasoning should be retained, while some should be dropped. The inference engine is responsible for supporting this more expressive…

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NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 introduces a fundamentally new way to build GPU clusters by extending NVIDIA NVLink coherence across an entire rack. This design enables...

NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 introduces a fundamentally new way to build GPU clusters by extending NVIDIA NVLink coherence across an entire rack. This design enables exascale performance, but it also changes the assumptions that many scheduling systems were built on. As a result, “rack-scale locality” becomes a hard constraint. When workloads cross domain boundaries, performance drops sharply…

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This post is the second of a three-part series. See also Model Quantization: Concepts, Methods, and Why It Matters and Model Quantization: Turn FP8 Checkpoints...

This post is the second of a three-part series. See also Model Quantization: Concepts, Methods, and Why It Matters and Model Quantization: Turn FP8 Checkpoints into High-Performance Inference Engines with NVIDIA TensorRT. Model quantization is an effective method to reduce VRAM usage and improve inference performance on consumer devices such as NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPUs.

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