Nvidia has launched Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open-weight ASR model combining transcription, speaker diarization, translation and audio Q&A in one checkpoint, now available on Hugging Face and ModelScope. It transcribes 40 languages, translates 31 to or from English, identifies up to eight speakers across 13 languages, and handles recordings up to an hour long. Nvidia also released the Granary v2 training dataset and fine-tuning recipes via NeMo Speech tools to help developers adapt the model.
huggingface.co
· 2026-10-28
Nvidia released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, a free, open-weight transcription model supporting up to 40 languages, alongside version 2 of its open-source Granary speech dataset. The company says the 30-billion-parameter model can translate 31 languages to and from English, process recordings up to an hour long, distinguish up to eight speakers, and run on a single chip ranging from Jetson AGX Thor to Blackwell datacenter hardware. Nvidia claims it outperforms rivals on benchmarks including Hugging Face's Open ASR Leaderboard, though it only works on recorded audio rather than live streams.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-28
Survival LLM is a free, open-source application that runs an AI assistant and a large offline reference library directly on a user's computer, requiring internet access only for initial setup. The tool answers emergency-related questions—such as water purification or burn treatment—by citing passages from included sources like FEMA guidance, CDC materials, survival manuals and roughly 930,000 Wikipedia articles. It automatically selects an AI model sized to the user's available memory, ranging from an 80GB model for high-memory Macs to a 6GB model for lower-spec machines.
brangus.io
· 2026-10-27
Nvidia introduced Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, a 120-billion-parameter open-weight model aimed at enterprise agent deployments, alongside two smaller Bolt models built to run locally on new RTX Spark and DGX Spark hardware. Nvidia says Super VL matches the accuracy of its larger Nemotron 3 Ultra model while completing agentic tasks faster than rival models from Anthropic and OpenAI, and lists companies including Skydance, EY, Ramp, Crowdstrike, Perplexity and Salesforce as users.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-19
Nvidia has launched Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, a 120-billion-parameter open-weight model aimed at agentic enterprise tasks. The company says benchmark testing by Artificial Analysis shows it is five times faster than the next-best open model in its class, outperforming InclusionAI's Ling 3.0 Flash and DeepSeek's V4.1 Flash. Nvidia also cited a 44% accuracy gain in a medical insurance claims task after post-training, surpassing Claude Opus 5 on that specific benchmark.
zdnet.com
· 2026-10-15
Tiny Audio is a GitHub project that pairs a frozen pretrained speech encoder with a pretrained LLM through a small trainable projector, requiring only about 80 million trainable parameters. The released model reaches 1.8% word error rate on LibriSpeech test-clean and 7.4% across a pooled set of 12 benchmarks, and the codebase can reportedly be read in an afternoon or trained on a laptop in roughly five minutes. It also supports word-level timestamps and speaker diarization via a zero-shot port of NVIDIA's NeMo masked_asr recipe.
github.com
· 2026-10-09
A new open-weight AI model called Kolibri has been released, positioned as a 'sovereign' alternative to existing large language models. The release includes benchmark comparisons against models such as Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B, Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12B and Mistral Small 4 119B-A6B, with metrics focused on non-hallucination rates and grounding accuracy when source documents lack answers.
aleph-alpha.com
· 2026-10-03
MacWhisper released version 15.2 for Mac, adding live meeting transcription, improved speaker recognition using NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Diarization model, and support for Alibaba's QWEN3-ASR model covering 22 languages. The update also deepens integration with Apple Intelligence, Siri, Spotlight, and Shortcuts on macOS 27, letting users search and open transcripts system-wide.
9to5mac.com
· 2026-09-23
Nvidia's Nader Khalil and Sydney Sykes will lead a session at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, running October 13-15 in San Francisco, examining how startups should choose between proprietary and open AI models. The panel will weigh trade-offs in cost, control, and speed as both open and closed model capabilities keep advancing rapidly.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-18
Salesforce unveiled Koa, its first reasoning model, at Dreamforce this week. Built on Nvidia's open-weight Nemotron model and post-trained for sales, marketing, and customer-support tasks, Koa gives Salesforce customers an alternative to routing complex agent requests through frontier models like Claude or ChatGPT.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-15
Nvidia has formally agreed to buy Hugging Face, the developer platform known for hosting open-source AI models and datasets, in a deal worth close to $13 billion. Nvidia says it will keep Hugging Face's open standards intact, expanding its own push into free, customizable AI tools like its Nemotron models.
wired.com
· 2026-09-03
Multiverse Computing has launched Quasar 438B, a reasoning model for enterprise agents and coding that operates in English and Spanish. It scored 43 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, the highest mark of any European model, surpassing Mistral Medium 3.5, NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra and Inkling, though still trailing global leader Claude Opus 5 at 63. It also responds quickly, generating 500 tokens including reasoning time in 15.3 seconds, and is accessible via the CompactifAI API.
multiversecomputing.com
· 2026-09-02
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