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The National Science Foundation’s National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) pilot program with access to NVIDIA DGX™ Cloud, The Walter Lab at Harvard Medical School completed nearly 1.7 million protein interaction predictions in 3 months.

Researchers at The Ohio State University are digitizing living organisms for broad science and conservation efforts through BioCLIP 2—a Tree of Life foundation model for half of the world’s named species. Built using NVIDIA A100 and H100 GPUs, it achieves the best or top-two performance for species identification and zero-shot recognition across almost one million taxa. The model unlocks emergent ecological and evolutionary insights and was recently featured at NeurIPS.

Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory and collaborating institutions have developed RADAR, a federated, privacy-enhancing framework that enables observatories to coordinate gravitational-wave and radio follow-up without moving or exposing proprietary data. Running on NVIDIA-accelerated supercomputing systems, RADAR demonstrates how multi-messenger discovery can be accelerated through secure, cross-observatory workflows that preserve data ownership.

Researchers at the University of Michigan developed Diff-SPORT, which combines generative models with advanced inference to deliver scalable, interpretable urban flow simulations. The team merged computational fluid dynamics with AI platforms using NVIDIA PhysicsNeMo™, which provides the core infrastructure for diffusion models and physics-informed machine learning.

Researchers at the University of Maryland, recipients of a grant from the NVIDIA Academic Grant Program, are developing AI-powered humanoid systems capable of complex household tasks with greater autonomy. Using the NVIDIA Isaac™ open robotics development platform, they create photorealistic virtual home environments populated with diverse objects, allowing robots to practice millions of task variations and safely test rare or complex scenarios.

UC Santa Cruz Center for Coastal Climate Resilience focuses on modeling and mapping the benefits of coral reefs and mangroves for reducing flood risk, which helps inform adaptation and preservation efforts. The center uses NVIDIA CUDA-X™ software, including the cuPyNumeric library and nvfortran compiler, running on NVIDIA RTX™ GPUs awarded through the NVIDIA Academic Grant Program.

Smaller asteroids have been located farther out with the world’s most powerful space telescope, which can now also track the city crusher 2024YR4 asteroid with a 2.3% chance of hitting Earth.

A joint team at BRLi and National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse (Toulouse INP), through a collaboration in the ANITI research institute, has designed an end-to-end AI approach that fully replaces the physics-based solver. This team includes expertise in both hydraulic modeling and AI methods for physics, enabling this interdisciplinary work. The Toulouse INP team then used these to train an end-to-end AI system to emulate the solver leveraging NVIDIA PhysicsNeMo from the Earth-2 platform.

Researchers used a deep learning model powered by an NVIDIA RTX A6000 GPU to automate spinal diagnostics, achieving 88% reliability for curvature predictions. The result: faster diagnoses, fewer errors, and better outcomes for patients with scoliosis and beyond.

The University of Florida’s AI infrastructure and supercomputer, the HiPerGator, is used to build a host of AI solutions to serve students, faculty, staff, and researchers. The university uses NVIDIA NIM microservices and Llama NIM on its HiPerGator supercomputer to bring a family of NaviGator chatbots providing capabilities of large language models (LLMs) to every facet of university life.

Colorado State University (CSU) cross-departmental collaboration between the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Atmospheric Science, and the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) recently trained a specialized NVIDIA Earth-2 StormScope Nowcasting model for operational severe hailstorm prediction.

Researchers at the Marine Biological Laboratory are using NVIDIA RTX GPUs and HP Z Workstations to study the molecular mechanisms of human memory. Combining the VR platform syGlass with custom AI tools, they’re helping scientists—and even high school interns—visualize billions of neurons to pinpoint memory proteins.

Cal Poly opened a $3M AI factory powered by four NVIDIA DGX B200 systems, delivering up to 3x training and 15x inference performance gains. Open to all students, faculty, and regional partners, it supports AI research in agriculture, aerospace, biotechnology, and advanced manufacturing.

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Japan’s Moonshot program is developing AIREC robots for elderly care—assisting with hygiene, meals, and daily tasks. Powered by NVIDIA Jetson Orin™ NX modules and trained with Isaac Sim™, the robots aim to support Japan’s aging population and free caregivers to focus on quality-of-life care.

Over 250 delegates gathered at the University of Bristol’s Isambard Summit 2026, where UK AI Minister Kanishka Narayan highlighted how national AI infrastructure, including the UK AI Research Resource, is accelerating innovation in healthcare, clean energy, and high-growth startups.

Miles College launched “Access for All,” supporting up to 750 underserved Alabama high school students with AI workforce training. Developed with NVIDIA and StudyFetch under the White House Pledge to America’s Youth, the program uses NVIDIA Academy and Deep Learning Institute content to build practical AI skills.

GluFormer, developed by MBZUAI and the Weizmann Institute, predicts diabetes and cardiovascular risk from just 10–14 days of glucose data. It outperforms the clinical standard HbA1c, identifying 66% of future diabetes cases and 69% of cardiovascular-death events across 19 diverse global cohorts.

NUS researchers developed CondensNet, a neural network that fixes a key instability in hybrid AI-physics climate models. By correcting water vapor oversaturation during condensation, the model enables decade-long climate simulations that stay physically accurate, which is a long-standing challenge in the field.

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