An overview of the key announcements from the NVIDIA GTC 2026 conference – from new chips and systems to demonstrations and Jensen Huang's keynote.
SK Telecom has successfully completed the first phase of a national project to create a sovereign AI – a language model with 519 billion parameters.
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How to Measure Our Proximity to True AI: Google DeepMind Proposes a New Framework
Research
Google DeepMind has introduced a cognitive framework for assessing progress toward artificial general intelligence (AGI) and launched a Kaggle hackathon to develop relevant benchmarks.
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Mamba-3: Faster Than Transformers in Practice, Not Just on Paper
Technical context • Research
Mamba-3 has been released – an open-source language model that outpaces transformers in text generation speed and surpasses previous versions in quality.
A study of faculty at 16 Russian universities reveals how AI is transforming research and teaching, and where it still falls short.
At the NVIDIA GTC 2026 conference, Intel announced that its Xeon 6 processors will be used as host CPUs in NVIDIA's DGX Rubin NVL8 systems.
Google has launched an AI-powered initiative to help identify cardiovascular risks among residents of Australia's remote regions, where access to doctors is severely limited.
GitHub has released the Copilot SDK, a tool for embedding AI agent capabilities directly into applications, fundamentally changing how we interact with models.
At the GTC conference, NVIDIA introduced the concept of a personal AI computer – devices that run neural networks and AI agents right on your desktop.