AI Foundation Models

Jun 17, 2025

R²D²: Building AI-based 3D Robot Perception and Mapping with NVIDIA Research

Robots must perceive and interpret their 3D environments to act safely and effectively. This is especially critical for tasks such as autonomous navigation,...
13 MIN READ
Jun 16, 2025

Enhance Robot Learning with Synthetic Trajectory Data Generated by World Foundation Models

Generalist robotics have arrived, powered by advances in mechatronics and robot AI foundation models. But a key bottleneck remains: robots need vast training...
8 MIN READ
Jun 11, 2025

Advancing Literature Review & Target Discovery With NVIDIA Biomedical AI-Q Research Agent Blueprint

Biomedical research and drug discovery have long been constrained by labor-intensive processes. In order to kick-off a drug discovery campaign, researchers...
4 MIN READ
Jun 11, 2025

Develop Custom Physical AI Foundation Models with NVIDIA Cosmos Predict-2

Building smarter robots and autonomous vehicles (AVs) starts with physical AI models that understand real-world dynamics. These models serve two critical roles:...
7 MIN READ
Jun 09, 2025

A Fine-tuning–Free Approach for Rapidly Recovering LLM Compression Errors with EoRA

Model compression techniques have been extensively explored to reduce the computational resource demands of serving large language models (LLMs) or other...
9 MIN READ
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May 16, 2025

R²D²: Unlocking Robotic Assembly and Contact Rich Manipulation with NVIDIA Research

This edition of NVIDIA Robotics Research and Development Digest (R2D2) explores several contact-rich manipulation workflows for robotic assembly tasks from...
9 MIN READ
Mar 27, 2025

R²D²: Advancing Robot Mobility and Whole-Body Control with Novel Workflows and AI Foundation Models from NVIDIA Research

Welcome to the first edition of the NVIDIA Robotics Research and Development Digest (R2D2). This technical blog series will give developers and researchers...
10 MIN READ
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Mar 18, 2025

Accelerate Generalist Humanoid Robot Development with NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1

Humanoid robots are designed to adapt to human workspaces, tackling repetitive or demanding tasks. However, creating general-purpose humanoid robots for...
7 MIN READ
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Mar 12, 2025

Lightweight, Multimodal, Multilingual Gemma 3 Models Are Streamlined for Performance

Building AI systems with foundation models requires a delicate balancing of resources such as memory, latency, storage, compute, and more. One size does not fit...
3 MIN READ
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Feb 26, 2025

Latest Multimodal Addition to Microsoft Phi SLMs Trained on NVIDIA GPUs

Large language models (LLMs) have permeated every industry and changed the potential of technology. However, due to their massive size they are not practical...
4 MIN READ
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Feb 11, 2025

NVIDIA DGX Cloud Introduces Ready-To-Use Templates to Benchmark AI Platform Performance

In the rapidly evolving landscape of AI systems and workloads, achieving optimal model training performance extends far beyond chip speed. It requires a...
7 MIN READ
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Jan 06, 2025

Llama Nemotron Models Accelerate Agentic AI Workflows with Accuracy and Efficiency

Agentic AI, the next wave of generative AI, is a paradigm shift with the potential to revolutionize industries by enabling AI systems to act autonomously and...
8 MIN READ
Dec 18, 2024

NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM Now Supports Recurrent Drafting for Optimizing LLM Inference

Recurrent drafting (referred to as ReDrafter) is a novel speculative decoding technique developed and open-sourced by Apple for large language model (LLM)...
6 MIN READ
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Dec 17, 2024

Data-Efficient Knowledge Distillation for Supervised Fine-Tuning with NVIDIA NeMo-Aligner

Knowledge distillation is an approach for transferring the knowledge of a much larger teacher model to a smaller student model, ideally yielding a compact,...
5 MIN READ
Nov 21, 2024

Deploying Fine-Tuned AI Models with NVIDIA NIM

For organizations adapting AI foundation models with domain-specific data, the ability to rapidly create and deploy fine-tuned models is key to efficiently...
6 MIN READ
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Nov 21, 2024

Spotlight: Advancing Autonomous Operations with AVEVA Dynamic Simulation and NVIDIA Raptor

Industrial engineers are turning to AI to build advanced process simulation solutions and accelerate progress toward fully autonomous operations in the energy,...
6 MIN READ