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Auto-updatedAccelerating No-Code Enterprise AI: Inside Simplismart’s NVIDIA Inception Journey
Simplismart eliminates ML Ops complexity with a no-code platform that lets enterprises design, train, and deploy custom AI models without managing infrastructure. Powered by NVIDIA GPUs, Triton™ Inference Server, TensorRT-LLM, and NVIDIA NIM™ microservices, Simplismart delivers ultra-low latency, automated scaling, and faster time-to-market. Discover how NVIDIA's Inception program enabled Simplismart with early hardware access, technical support, and global visibility to turn raw compute into an
NVIDIA · AI & Learning · yesterdayNew Hands for Atlas | Boston Dynamics
This new generation hand is the perfect companion for Atlas. With 13 degrees of freedom, these hands are directly actuated, built for high fidelity simulation to enable sim-to-real RL, and designed from the ground up for dexterous physical work. Learn how we built robot hands for modern AI and real work: https://bostondynamics.com/blog/robot-hands-for-modern-ai-and-real-work
Boston Dynamics · Humanoids · 2d agoInside the Robotics Race | Boston Dynamics x Hyundai Motor Group x Bloomberg Media Studios
Why will Boston Dynamics win the humanoid robotics race? We've already commercialized autonomous mobile robots, creating markets with Spot and Stretch. Now we're doing it again with Atlas: learning in real environments, designing for manufacturing at scale, and introducing a new era of physical intelligence. Learn more RMAC: https://bostondynamics.com/news/boston-dynamics-opens-robotics-metaplant-application-center-to-train-humanoid-robots-for-manufacturing-tasks/ Learn more about Atlas: https:/
Boston Dynamics · Humanoids · 3d ago10 Years of NVIDIA DGX: From One System to AI Factories
A decade ago, Jensen Huang introduced DGX-1 to help researchers tackle AI challenges once thought out of reach. He delivered the first DGX-1 to OpenAI, which started the AI revolution. What began as a single system has evolved into the blueprint for the modern AI factory—driving breakthroughs across research, medicine, industry and beyond. Thank you to every researcher, developer, partner and customer who has shared this journey. Here’s to the next decade of NVIDIA DGX. Want to learn more about
NVIDIA · Robotics · 9d agoClaude Opus 5.5 AI: An Incredible Leap Forward
❤️ Check out Lambda here and sign up for their GPU Cloud: https://lambda.ai/papers Note: in the walking creatures experiment, Astra used a simplified model and was unable to implement the correct one. Things did not improve after simulating it for more generations. Claude Opus 5.5: https://www.anthropic.com/claude-opus-5-5 Walking creatures video and paper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ2bqz3HPJE https://www.goatstream.com/research/papers/SA2013/ Honey coiling video and paper: https://www.yo
Two Minute Papers · Legged Robots · 9d agoWe got @unsloth a DGX Station!
Daniel Han and Nader Khalil checked out Unsloth’s new @DellTechnologies Pro Max with GB300 and talked about what comes next: support for more models, faster quantization, and more efficient reinforcement learning. Learn more about DGX Station: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/products/workstations/dgx-station/
NVIDIA · AI & Learning · 10d agoAsk A Roboticist | Meet Diane | Boston Dynamics #robot #bostondynamics #robotics
Diane Heinle, a mechanical engineer, answers questions about endurance testing for Stretch, how her team simulates years of wear on robot parts over a brief time in the lab, and why there are bird heads on the
Boston Dynamics · Robotics · 10d agoYes, Jev Is Insane, But There's A Catch
❤️ Check out Lambda here and sign up for their GPU Cloud: https://lambda.ai/papers 📝 Jev: https://typesafe.ai/blog/introducing-system-one-models-and-jev Full song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RtUJkjrKMI Previous papers, implementations, models: https://huggingface.co/convaiinnovations/laya https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.23303 https://huggingface.co/DeepMostInnovations/sales-conversion-model-reinf-learning https://huggingface.co/datasets/DeepMostInnovations/saas-sales-conversations https://arxi
Two Minute Papers · AI & Learning · 11d agoWhy the AI Ecosystem Builds on NVIDIA - Jensen Huang at the All-In Summit
Models across the AI ecosystem run on NVIDIA. New models and AI labs are emerging all the time. Our CEO Jensen Huang shares the idea behind NVIDIA’s platform: build what the ecosystem needs and help everyone succeed. #AllInSummit
NVIDIA · Robotics · 15d agoDeepSeek’s Insane New Architecture
❤️ Check out Lambda here and sign up for their GPU Cloud: https://lambda.ai/papers 📝 The DeepSeek V4.1 Flash paper is available here: https://www.deepseek.com/en/news/deepseek-v4-1-flash/ Erratum: Opus 5.1 label at 3:23 should have been Opus 5. Apologies! Sources: https://x.com/flowith/status/2099446892174406055/video/1 https://x.com/loktar00/status/2097761803291726137 https://x.com/loktar00/status/2099171901746688079 https://x.com/loktar00/status/2097557594239897837 https://x.com/loktar00/stat
Two Minute Papers · Robotics · 15d agoBuild Custom AI Infrastructure with NVIDIA NVLink Fusion
Discover how NVIDIA NVLink Fusion enables hyperscalers, AI natives, and other custom silicon innovators to combine NVIDIA technology with their XPUs or CPUs to deploy AI infrastructure. By extending NVIDIA's vertically integrated and horizontally open platform across custom systems, NVLink Fusion delivers industry-leading scale-up performance, reduces deployment risk, and accelerates time to market for heterogeneous compute.
NVIDIA · Robotics · 16d agoClaude Is Now Leaving Invisible Fingerprints In Its Text
❤️ Check out Weights & Biases and sign up for a free demo here: https://wandb.me/papers 📝 The papers and sources are available here: https://proceedings.mlr.press/v202/kirchenbauer23a.html https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08025-4 https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-text-watermark 🙏 We would like to thank our generous Patreon supporters who make Two Minute Papers possible: Adam Bridges, B Shang, Carlos Galarza, Christian Ahlin, Eric Tyson, Juan Benet, Lukas Biewald, Michael Tedder,
Two Minute Papers · Robotics · 18d agoI Never Thought I’d See This Happen
❤️ Check out Lambda here and sign up for their GPU Cloud: https://lambda.ai/papers 📝 The Navier-Stokes solution paper is available here: https://openai.com/index/navier-stokes-solution/ My fluid simulations and papers: https://users.cg.tuwien.ac.at/zsolnai/gfx/fluid_control_msc_thesis/ https://users.cg.tuwien.ac.at/zsolnai/gfx/real_time_fluid_control_eg/ The flow from simulation to reality: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-022-01788-5 All papers: https://users.cg.tuwien.ac.at/zsolnai/ Ful
Two Minute Papers · Robotics · 23d agoGPT-6 Astra Changes Everything
❤️ Check out Lambda here and sign up for their GPU Cloud: https://lambda.ai/papers Links / sources: Honey sim: search for "Variational Stokes: A Unified Pressure-Viscosity Solver for Accurate Viscous Liquids" here: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~c2batty/ https://x.com/mindblown_ai/status/2095661874037813298?s=20 https://x.com/aollivier82/status/2096226819401801896?s=46 https://x.com/sahilexec/status/2095688272269984016?s=46 https://x.com/petergostev/status/2095596176804307342?s=20 https://x.com/mattsh
Two Minute Papers · Robotics · 25d agoThe Future Has Arrived | Cybercab
Our Robotaxi vehicle lineup now includes Cybercab, our first purpose-built autonomous vehicle without a steering wheel or pedals — Now launching in Austin, Texas. Designed for safety, accessibility and comfort, Cybercab is bringing autonomy to everyone and every ride. Schedule your next ride today to experience the future of autonomy for yourself—only available in the Robotaxi app. Download the Tesla Robotaxi app: iOS – https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tesla-robotaxi/id6744257048 Android – https://
Tesla · Navigation · 29d agoClaude Fable AI Is Much Stranger Than The Headlines Suggest
❤️ Check out Lambda here and sign up for their GPU Cloud: https://lambda.ai/papers 📝 The Claude Fable 5.1 paper is available here: https://www.anthropic.com/claude-fable-and-mythos-5-1 https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/0339e6a7c5c7b87f5c07798616dc32c215d14235/Claude%20Fable%205.1%20%26%20Claude%20Mythos%205.1%20System%20Card.pdf Sources: https://x.com/alexalbert__/status/2094860187743986169?s=46 https://x.com/holytrinity/status/2094866061212459130?s=46 https://x.com/holytrinity/status/2094927984217
Two Minute Papers · Robotics · 1mo agoGLM 5.3: Powerful AI Is Becoming Almost Free
❤️ Check out Lambda here and sign up for their GPU Cloud: https://lambda.ai/papers 📝 GLM 5.3 Flash: https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3-flash Sources: https://x.com/louszbd/status/2092694163104113016 https://x.com/semianalysis_/status/2092623833630998556 https://x.com/skalskip92/status/2092748209802154201 https://x.com/louszbd/status/2093047548550525165 https://x.com/atomic_chat_hq/status/2093433913238552712 https://x.com/holytrinity/status/2094093933584257334 https://x.com/KinasRemek/status/209008161183
Two Minute Papers · Robotics · 1mo agoThe Billion Dollar AI Gap Is Collapsing
❤️ Check out Weights & Biases and sign up for a free demo here: https://wandb.me/papers 📝 The paper and Qwen3.8-Flash-Next are available here: https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next/blob/main/tech_report.pdf https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8-flash-next Sources: https://x.com/analogalok/status/2092697021790708148 https://www.reddit.com/r/unsloth/comments/1vzf6j7/mind_blowing_qwen38flashnext_rtx_3090_128ddr5 https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLM/comments/1vz1w00/first_gif_cooked_by_qwen38flashnex
Two Minute Papers · Robotics · 1mo agoWhat is a robot surgeon? #askaroboticist #bostondynamics #robotics
Mark DiLeo, a member of Atlas repair team, shares how Boston Dynamics fixes problems that have never been seen before and what makes a good robot surgeon.
Boston Dynamics · Humanoids · 1mo agoDeepSeek’s New AI System Shouldn’t Be Possible
❤️ Check out Lambda here and sign up for their GPU Cloud: https://lambda.ai/papers 📝 DeepSeek Harness + paper are available here: https://deepseek.com/harness/en/ https://github.com/cordiverse/paper 🙏 We would like to thank our generous Patreon supporters who make Two Minute Papers possible: Adam Bridges, B Shang, Carlos Galarza, Christian Ahlin, Eric Tyson, Juan Benet, Lukas Biewald, Michael Tedder, Owen Skarpness, Ryan Stankye, Shawn Becker, Steef, Taras Bobrovytsky, Tazaur Sagenclaw, Tybie
Two Minute Papers · Robotics · 1mo agoThis Small AI Will Change Everything
❤️ Check out Lambda here and sign up for their GPU Cloud: https://lambda.ai/papers 📝 The Qwen3.8-27b is available here: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B Sources: https://www.reddit.com/r/unsloth/comments/1vogva0/share_your_results_from_qwen3827b/ https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1voer8u/qwen_38_27b_aquarium_burst_sample_test/ https://x.com/KyleHessling1/status/2088327667733180637 https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1vqme4y/qwen3827b_q8_0_on_strix_halo_is_seriously/ h
Two Minute Papers · Robotics · 1mo agoDeepSeek Just Made Closed AI Look Ridiculous
❤️ Check out Lambda here and sign up for their GPU Cloud: https://lambda.ai/papers DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 DSpark full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yBU41auQhw Sources: https://x.com/cline/status/2087602193205694891 https://x.com/TypingMindApp/status/2088214938754167263 https://x.com/stevibe/status/2047546592530747561 https://x.com/voidfreud/status/2087701887327887543 https://x.com/exploraX_/status/2079197387860435360 https://x.co
Two Minute Papers · Robotics · 1mo agoClaude AI Failed 650 Times…Then Beat The Human Record
❤️ Check out Weights & Biases and sign up for a free demo here: https://wandb.me/papers 📝 The paper is available here: https://www.anthropic.com/research/riemann-zeta Source: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-ai-didnt-just-solve-the-thorniest-problem-in-math/ 🙏 We would like to thank our generous Patreon supporters who make Two Minute Papers possible: Adam Bridges, B Shang, Carlos Galarza, Christian Ahlin, Eric Tyson, Juan Benet, Lukas Biewald, Michael Tedder, Owen Skarpness, Ryan
Two Minute Papers · Robotics · 1mo agoKhabib Nurmagomedov: Dagestan, MMA, UFC, Islam, Conor, Fedor & Football | Lex Fridman Podcast #500
Khabib Nurmagomedov is one of the greatest fighters of all time, who retired from the UFC undefeated with a perfect 29-0 record. We did this conversation entirely in Russian. It's translated and dubbed into English. Both language audio tracks (and subtitles) are available here on YouTube. To switch between language audio tracks, click: Settings gear icon, then Audio track. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep500-sb See below for timestamps, transcr
Lex Fridman · Navigation · 1mo agoEditor's picks, decoded
Tesla Optimus walking — the 4-minute version of a 22-minute reveal
Tesla's Optimus reveal video was 22 minutes long. The actually-new robotics in it fits in 4 minutes. Here's what changed in Gen 3, and what didn't.
4:12 · Humanoid · saves 18 minHow a Roomba decides where to clean
It's not random. A modern Roomba runs SLAM, builds a map of your home, and plans a route. Here's what's inside.
3:48 · ConsumerThe DJI drone gimbal in slow-motion — three motors, 8,000 corrections per second
That impossibly steady drone shot you've seen on Instagram? It's a three-axis robotic arm fighting gravity 8,000 times every second. Here's how.
5:30 · DronesBoston Dynamics' Atlas parkour — what the video doesn't tell you
The viral Atlas parkour video is not what it looks like. It's both more impressive AND less impressive than you think. Here's the real story.
5:12 · HumanoidA surgical robot ties a knot tighter than human fingers can — how
There's a famous video of a da Vinci surgical robot tying a microscopic knot inside a grape skin without bursting the grape. Here's what's actually happening — and why it matters.
3:18 · MedicalFigure 02 — the humanoid building for factory work
Figure's pitch isn't a research demo. It's "this robot will work in a BMW plant in 2026." Here's what the hardware looks like and what they got right.
5:00 · Humanoid · saves 7 minROS2 fundamentals — the 10-minute version of a 6-hour tutorial
Nodes, topics, services, actions, and DDS. Skip the historical detour through ROS1; here's the working mental model for ROS2.
10:00 · ROS2 · saves 350 minHow Boston Dynamics' Spot actually works
A 7-minute decode of the quadruped that started the legged-robotics revolution — 12 actuated joints, three perception cameras, and the control loop that keeps it upright.
4:40 · Legged Robots · saves 3 minANYmal — the academic quadruped that became an inspection robot
ETH Zurich's spinout. Four legs, IP67 weather seal, designed for industrial inspection — autonomous patrols in oil refineries and substations.
4:00 · Legged Robots · saves 6 minInside Amazon's warehouse — how 750,000 robots actually move
Amazon doesn't use one robot. It uses a coordinated fleet. The system, not any single machine, is the breakthrough.
6:00 · Warehouse Automation · saves 13 min