Announcement • Jun 02
NVIDIA Corporation Announces New Software, Open Source Models To Build Autonomous AI Agents
NVIDIA Corporation announced new software, open source models and partnerships with the world’s leading software platform providers to build autonomous AI agents for industries and enterprises across engineering, healthcare, software development and business operations. Leading software companies are using NVIDIA Agent Toolkit software to build secure, long-running AI agents that act as digital coworkers. These autonomous agents start with a model. Then, they require a software layer called a harness to turn the model into an agent with functions like orchestration, context, memory, tool use and security. NVIDIA Agent Toolkit software equips enterprises to build agents that can work alongside employees at scale. NVIDIA Nemotron™ open models and NVIDIA NemoClaw™ blueprints connect popular harnesses; the NVIDIA OpenShell™ secure runtime sets policy and privacy controls; and agents can now tap into NVIDIA CUDA-X™ libraries as skills. NVIDIA Unveils New Nemotron Open Models to Power Long-Running Agents Fueling the intelligence of autonomous agents, NVIDIA today unveiled new open models and datasets for always-on agents, developed with contributions from the NVIDIA Nemotron Coalition. NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra is a 550-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model that delivers frontier-level intelligence to long-running agents across coding, research and enterprise workflows. With up to 5x faster inference and up to 30% lower cost compared with open frontier models in its class, Ultra enables agents to complete tasks faster and at lower cost. Nemotron 3 Ultra is post-trained for leading agent platforms and harnesses — the orchestration frameworks enterprises use to deploy and coordinate agents — including Hermes Agent, LangChain Deep Agents, OpenClaw, OpenHands and OpenCode. In addition, new Nemotron models for safety and speech recognition further expand the model family’s capabilities for building efficient, specialized enterprise agents.NVIDIA Nemotron models are enabling a new class of long-running AI agents across enterprise platforms from companies including CrowdStrike and Palantir. These agents help teams analyze complex data, coordinate tasks and streamline operations across cybersecurity and enterprise environments. CrowdStrike is using NVIDIA Nemotron models for its specialized agents that continuously identify, prioritize and remediate vulnerabilities and policy misconfigurations, helping stop adversaries faster while reducing the operational burden on security teams. Palantir is integrating NVIDIA Nemotron models into its AI FDE (Forward Deployed Engineer) platform to autonomously execute complex tasks, enabling continuous learning from agent interactions to build domain-specific, air-gapped enterprise systems. Major Software Platforms Integrate Secure Agent Runtime With NVIDIA OpenShell: Autonomous agents that write code, generate sub-agents and remember context across sessions can access local files, learn new tools and execute advanced workflows with increasing independence. The more capable agents become, the more important it is to have necessary guardrails for the agents to operate within. The critical layer is a runtime with adjustable privacy and security controls that make autonomous agents safer to deploy at scale. NVIDIA and Microsoft are partnering across new Windows security primitives and the NVIDIA OpenShell runtime to ensure agents run safely and under full user control. The new Windows primitives deliver identity, containment, policy and end-to-end security capabilities to build and run agents natively. NVIDIA OpenShell builds on these primitives to provide additional policy capabilities and will intelligently route queries to local models based on the user’s privacy policies, as well as disguise personal information in queries sent to cloud models. Canonical will integrate OpenShell with Ubuntu through supported snaps and rocks, aka OCI-compliant containers, to run autonomous agents on enterprise servers worldwide. Red Hat is integrating OpenShell into its full-stack Red Hat AI platform to maintain oversight and policy at the infrastructure level. The company is also making key contributions to the OpenShell upstream open source project to help standardize how agents are managed on enterprise platforms. Today’s announcements build on recent integrations by SAP, which is embedding OpenShell into Joule Studio runtime — part of SAP Business AI Platform for enterprise AI agents — and ServiceNow, which secured Project Arc, ServiceNow’s enterprise autonomous desktop agent, with OpenShell to add policy-based management for enterprise safety. OpenShell runs in on-premises, hybrid and enterprise cloud environments, local devices such as NVIDIA RTX Spark™, NVIDIA DGX Spark™ and GB10 systems from system providers, as well as NVIDIA DGX Station™ for Windows and NVIDIA DGX Station GB300 systems from NVIDIA partners. NVIDIA CUDA-X Libraries Available as Skills for Autonomous Agents NVIDIA CUDA-X libraries are now accessible to AI agents with domain-specific skills, giving AI agents the ability to more easily use specialized capabilities to tackle the biggest challenges in science, industry and enterprise. Examples include: NVIDIA cuDF accelerates data processing and analytics over massive structured datasets, enabling agents to quickly reason over enterprise data. NVIDIA cuOpt™ helps agents solve complex routing, scheduling, resource allocation, supply chain and decision optimization problems in real time. NVIDIA AI-Q gives agents intelligent routing, persistent context and built-in evaluation for enterprise research and knowledge workflows. NVIDIA NeMo™ accelerates agent optimization, evaluation and governance through prompts, skills, model routing and model customization for specialized domains and regions. NVIDIA PhysicsNeMo™ empowers agents to build and benchmark high-fidelity AI physics models for complex scientific and engineering simulations. NVIDIA CUDA-Q™ enables AI agents to streamline installation, generate and test quantum programs, simulate quantum systems and orchestrate quantum applications. NVIDIAalso released a major collection of open source physical AI libraries, skills, models and frameworks, enabling AI agents and developers to stand up workflows that accelerate development of robotics, autonomous vehicles and industrial systems.