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Company

NVIDIA

World leader in accelerated computing and AI (NASDAQ: NVDA).

Founded
1993
Status
Public

Patents

6

Overview

World leader in accelerated computing and AI (NASDAQ: NVDA). In physical AI, NVIDIA develops the Isaac robotics platform: the GR00T open foundation model, Jetson edge compute (AGX Thor), Isaac Lab and Isaac Sim simulation environments, and Omniverse. NVIDIA positions itself as the platform layer for the humanoid industry. Developer of GR00T N1, the first open humanoid foundation model.

Reality check

Vera Rubin NVL72 (company-claimed)

72 Rubin GPUs and 36 Vera CPUs per rack with 6th-gen NVLink; 30x throughput per MW vs GB300 NVL72 on agentic work; full production Aug 2026.

Vera Rubin shipping (company-claimed)

Sep 2026: Supermicro began shipping Vera Rubin NVL72 racks; CoreWeave opened limited availability with Cognition as the first production customer.

Open Agent Safety Platform (company-claimed)

Sep 2026: OpenShell, an open-source secure agent runtime, plus Sentry, a watchdog on BlueField-4 DPUs that can quarantine agents in milliseconds.

OSMO open-sourced (company-claimed)

A Kubernetes workflow orchestrator for physical AI pipelines across cloud GPU clusters and Jetson edge devices, first built for GR00T and Isaac Lab.

DGX Spark 64GB (company-claimed)

From Oct 23 2026 at $4,999 via Acer, ASUS, Dell, Gigabyte, HP and MSI. Two units can pair to run models of up to 200B parameters.

Spectrum-X Photonics switches (company-claimed)

Aug 2026: Co-packaged optics switches up to 409.6 Tb/s in full production; early adopters include CoreWeave, Lambda, Oracle Cloud, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud and Nebius.

Project Lyra 2.0 (company-claimed)

2026: Turns a single image into an explorable 3D scene that exports to Isaac Sim for robot navigation and interaction training.

Chip financing insurance (company-claimed)

In early talks with insurers, via broker Howden Re, to cover loan losses on AI chips pledged by smaller neoclouds.

Vera Rubin designs to OCP (company-claimed)

NVIDIA contributed Vera Rubin rack and compute tray designs to OCP via open MGX architecture (MGX 1.2 updates).

Meta Spectrum-6 adoption (company-claimed)

Oct 2026: Meta is adopting Spectrum-6 102.4Tb/s Ethernet switches for Vera Rubin AI factories, with Multiplane via ConnectX-9.

ASPIRE with GPT-6 Astra (company-claimed, Oct 2026)

Jim Fan says switching ASPIRE to Astra saturated the lab's benchmarks to about 99% overnight; Opus 5.5 slightly edges Astra on its robot simulation bench.

Flora labeling scale (company-claimed)

Labels up to 200,000 hours of video a day on 512 GB300 GPUs; NVIDIA says it is about 125x cheaper than GPT-6 Astra for labeling.

DSX MaxLPS (company-claimed, Oct 2026)

Power allocation software NVIDIA says generates the same tokens with up to 30% less power. CoreWeave, Google Cloud, IREN, Lambda, Nebius and Nscale are among operators exploring it.

Verified record

Verified deployments
None on file
Active incidents
None on file

Key facts

Robotics platform

Isaac covers simulation (Isaac Sim), perception (Isaac ROS) and training; Jetson Orin is the onboard computer for robots; Omniverse runs digital twins.

Robotics leadership

Deepu Talla (VP Robotics and Edge), Rev Lebaredian (VP Omniverse), Gaurav Agarwal (Director, Robotics PM), Ian Buck (VP Hyperscale and HPC).

Robotics customers

BMW, Mercedes, Amazon (Proteus AMR), JD Logistics, Siemens, Foxconn, BYD, Nuro, Zoox and Uber.

Platform versions

Isaac Sim 4.0 (2024), Jetson Orin Nano and AGX, Isaac Gym for reinforcement learning. Isaac ROS 5.0.0 (Sep 2026) moved to ROS 2 Lyrical Luth on Ubuntu 24.04.

Form factors served

NVIDIA compute runs autonomous vehicles (Drive), robots (Isaac and Jetson), drones, AMRs and humanoids.

Robotics patents

3 USPTO robotics patents (Isaac Sim training, multi-modal fusion, edge computing), alongside thousands of GPU and AI patents.

Vera CPU

First CPU built for AI agents: 88 Olympus cores, 176 threads, 1.2 TB/s LPDDR5X memory; available fall 2026.

SpaceX partnership

Co-designed a space-optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 for the Starmind AI1 satellite, launching Q4 2027.

Hugging Face acquisition (reported, unconfirmed)

Aug 2026: a $12.9B deal was reported but not confirmed.

Helix Digital Infrastructure (reported, unconfirmed)

Founding investor and strategic partner in KKR's Helix Digital Infrastructure, launched June 2026 with more than $10B committed.

China chip sales (reported, unconfirmed)

Sep 2026: China signaled it may let ByteDance and Alibaba buy the RTX PRO 5500 workstation chip.

GPU export case (reported, Oct 2026)

The DOJ charged Earthmade Computer's owner over $300M of GPU servers allegedly smuggled to China. NVIDIA is not a defendant.

Reflection AI talks (reported, unconfirmed)

Oct 2026: early talks to acquire Reflection AI or deepen its stake, possibly as an acqui-hire. NVIDIA is already said to have invested about $800M.

Off-balance-sheet obligations (reported, unconfirmed)

An analyst tally puts gross off-balance-sheet obligations at $530B across six 2Q FY27 10-Q lines, up from $184B; mainly supply commitments ($279B, primarily memory).

AlphaNIST paper (reported, Oct 2026)

NVIDIA and UW authors published AlphaNIST: one sim policy across 20 NIST board tasks at 98.2% training success from binary rewards only (no demos).

UK safety compute (company-stated, Oct 2026)

$250M of compute over five years ($50M a year) for UK agentic safety research, including Oxford BOLD, UCL SOFAIR and Imperial, via UK-based cloud partners.

Earthshot Prize (company-stated, Oct 2026)

Joined the Earthshot Prize as a Global Alliance Founding Partner, providing compute and technical expertise.

ASPIRE v1.0 open source (research-stated, Oct 2026)

NVIDIA GEAR open-sourced ASPIRE v1.0, a code-as-policy robotics agent that writes, repairs and stores reusable robot skills; real-robot demos include solving a Rubik's Cube.

ASPIRE benchmarks (research-stated, Oct 2026)

With Claude Opus 5.5, ASPIRE reports 99% average success on 80 LIBERO-Pro tasks and 100% on representative Robosuite and BEHAVIOR-1K tasks.

Content per gigawatt (CEO-stated, Oct 2026)

Jensen Huang on BG2 (Oct 15 2026): Nvidia's content per gigawatt of AI data center rose from about $18B to over $40B as it adds networking, CPUs, storage and security.

S4VY 4D segmentation (research-stated, 2026)

NVIDIA and Texas A&M researchers built S4VY, a feed-forward model that segments every object across 4D scenes from RGB views and grounds objects from text prompts.

Siemens Erlangen factory (company-stated, Oct 2026)

NVIDIA Cosmos, Omniverse libraries and the Factory Operations Blueprint power new quality inspection and production planning tools at Siemens' Erlangen electronics plant.

Modal Vera CPU win (reported, Oct 2026)

Reuters: Modal will use Vera CPUs to host AI agents, its first non-Intel, non-AMD CPU. Modal's own tests showed up to 2x the throughput of current x86 servers.

LidarVerse LiDAR world model (company-run, Oct 2026)

NVIDIA paper with UIUC and U of Toronto: one model generates, forecasts and resimulates LiDAR at 11 FPS on one H100; 3s forecast Chamfer 0.676 vs 1.070 for UnO.

Flora open-sourced (company-stated, Oct 2026)

NVIDIA GEAR released Flora, three models that segment, caption and score robot and human video (TempSeg 9B, Captioner 27B, Rewarder 27B), used to train GR00T. Noncommercial license.

DSX POD (company-stated, Oct 2026)

Reference design for complete Vera Rubin AI factories built by partners inside modular containers and validated before delivery. Builders include Dell, HPE, Lenovo, Foxconn and Vertiv.

Isaac Lab 3.0 and Isaac OS (company-stated, Oct 2026)

Isaac Lab 3.0 robot learning framework is generally available. Isaac OS is a new open source runtime on Holoscan that links AI, sensors, controls and robot hardware.

Minerva AIOps platform (company-stated, Oct 2026)

Launched Oct 22, 2026 to correlate GPU, network, storage and workload telemetry for AI factory uptime. IREN uses it; Lambda, Tesla, IBM, Jio and Bitdeer AI plan to deploy.

Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B (company-stated, Oct 2026)

Open small model released Oct 23, 2026: 8B parameters (4B effective), post-trained from Gemma 4 E4B, about 4GB quantized, for local agents on RTX, Jetson and DGX Spark.

Bolt E4B robot demo (company-stated, Oct 2026)

Shown running locally on a Reachy Mini robot with a Jetson Orin Nano 8GB, with Cosmos 3 Edge supplying vision and the model calling the robot's animation scripts.

AI cloud backstops (company-filed, Jul 2026 10-Q)

As of Jul 26, 2026: $36B of AI cloud agreements with neoclouds, $20B of data center leases to reassign to third parties, and $108.5B max guarantee exposure, incl. $105B for the Ohio OpenAI site.

Foundation4D AV model (research paper, Oct 2026)

Feed-forward model that predicts depth, camera poses, 3D objects, semantic occupancy and Gaussians from multi-camera driving video, with a 1,253-clip PAI benchmark and lidarless NuRec priors.

Rubin GPU HBM4 bandwidth (sources differ, Oct 2026)

NVIDIA's Vera Rubin NVL72 spec page lists 288 GB HBM4 at 19.2 TB/s per Rubin GPU and 1,400 TB/s per rack. Its Rubin architecture blog says up to 22 TB/s.

Agent software licensing remark (reported, Oct 2026)

At a GTC Berlin Q&A on Oct 22, Huang said it is about $2,000 per GPU per year to run NVIDIA's agent software. No product, terms or start date were given.

SimReady Central library (company-stated, Oct 2026)

Oct 21 2026: a free, ungated Hugging Face library of more than 2,000 simulation-ready OpenUSD assets, from robot arms and grippers to racks and cooling gear.

Nscale credit guarantee talks (reported, Oct 2026)

The Information: in talks to guarantee billions of dollars of Nscale debt for power and construction at the West Virginia campus Anthropic plans to use. Not signed; terms may change.

Data & sources

Company filings

2

Press releases

4

News coverage

11

Research

5

Patent documents

6

Web sources

109

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Partnerships

Every company NVIDIA has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.

1129 total782 operating234 just announced4 ended

Most-frequent partners

  1. 1Agility Robotics7× joint24 total
  2. 2Uber7× joint36 total
  3. 3Edged5× joint2 total
  4. 4Boston Dynamics4× joint24 total
  5. 5Digital Realty4× joint1 total
  6. 6Figure AI3× joint15 total

Robots powered by NVIDIA

NVIDIA’s brains run inside 2 registry-tracked models across 2 makers, with 14 verified deployments on the map.

Brains

Makers running these brains

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Claims ledger

Public, dated claims by NVIDIA, each tracked against the evidence. Status is a DEPLOY assessment from primary sources: verified means an independent source confirms it; contradicted means one refutes it; open means the outcome is not yet determinable. Every entry keeps its verbatim quote and source so you can check the call yourself.

Claim Integrity: 0% (0 of 1 resolved claims verified; 4 tracked)
  • Partly trueCapability · claimed 2026-06-05
    “Robotics is South Korea's next major sector”

    Correction: this verdict was recorded with the claim date as its effective date. DEPLOY recorded it on 2026-07-09, which is its effective date.

  • OpenCapability · claimed 2026-03-18
    “Every industrial company will become a robotics company”

    This is a strategic vision statement, not a measurable claim with a deadline. It reflects NVIDIA's positioning as the compute platform for physical AI. ABB and FANUC are partners, confirming some industry alignment, but "every industrial company" is unfalsifiable.

  • OpenCapability · claimed 2026-03-18
    “The entire manufacturing line will be autonomous”

    No manufacturing line is fully autonomous as of July 2026. BMW has Figure 03 and Boston Dynamics Stretch in pilot/demonstration. Tesla is converting Fremont for Optimus. The claim is aspirational. https://www.cnbc.com/ (interview)

  • OpenCapability · claimed 2026-01-06 · deadline 2026-12-31
    “Humanoid robots will reach human-level ability this year”

    Claim made at CES 2026 (January 2026). No humanoid robot has demonstrated human-level ability in any verified deployment as of July 2026. Agility's Digit performs specific warehouse tasks (tote moving) but not "human-level ability" broadly. Figure 03 is in pilot at BMW. Tesla Optimus has no deployment. The claim is the most aggressive humanoid capability prediction in the industry — and it's from the platform provider, not a robot manufacturer. https://www.manufacturingdive.com/news/industrial-robotics-companies-everywhere-says-nvidia-ceo-gtc-2026-abb-fanuc-ai/815042/

Disagree with a status? NVIDIA can submit a correction with evidence and we log the response on the record. Methodology and the full industry ledger live at /stats/claim-integrity.

Current leadership (7)

  • Jim Fan Senior Research Scientist, Embodied AI Lead, NVIDIAsecondary-verified
  • Jensen Huang Co-founder & CEOsecondary-verified
  • Mike Volpi General Partner, Index Venturessecondary-verified
  • Deepu Talla executiveSEC-verified
  • Rev Lebaredian executivesince 2019-01-01secondary-verified
  • Colette Kress executivesince 2013-01-01SEC-verified
  • Ian Buck executivesince 2004-01-01secondary-verified

Founders (1)

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Former / Previously (7)

  • Jason Ma Research Scientist (NVIDIA AI)secondary-verified
  • Mi Liangchuan GPU / autonomous-driving (former)reported, not verified
  • Dieter Fox Senior Director of Robotics Researchsecondary-verified
  • Yuzhe Qin Research Intern, Roboticssecondary-verified
  • Helen Oleynikova Robotics Researcher (co-created nvblox)secondary-verified
  • Zhang Jianzhong Global Vice President & GM Chinasecondary-verified
  • Gaurav Agarwal executivesince 2020-01-01secondary-verified

Media (2)

Company-anchored media. Official assets the company has published at the company level, distinct from model-anchored media that lives on individual product pages.

PRIMARY SOURCE
Courtesy of NVIDIA

NVIDIA introduction of its Jetson AGX Thor robotics compute module for physical AI and humanoids. The maker specs it at up to 2,070 FP4 TFLOPS and 7.5x the AI performance of Jetson AGX Orin.

Safety record

No incidents on record for NVIDIA.

Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.

Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →

NVIDIA on the data-center map

Every verified data center NVIDIA operates that has a mapped coordinate (18 total). Filled circles are Tier-2 facilities and Tier-1 campuses under this operator; click any pin to open its record.

NVIDIA data centers (19)

AI data centers NVIDIA operates or is a party to, from the DEPLOY data center registry.

Brains developed (4)

Recent coverage

NVIDIA in third-party press

Peer companies

Mentioned on (122+)

Registry pages whose text names NVIDIA.

Deployments (19)

Plus SuperDrive Autonomous Truck at U.S. and Europe (Mercedes-Benz CLA), Agile Robots mobile humanoid (Audi proof of concept) at Ingolstadt, Germany, ALICE M1 at Geoje, Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea, HMND 01 at Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany, Vobile DreamMaker at Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam, Unitree H2 Plus at Seattle, Unitree H2 Plus at Zürich, Switzerland, Unitree H2 Plus at San Diego, CA, SimReady at Geely Automotive Factory, China, Unitree H2 Plus at Stanford, SEALMINER A4 at Tydal, Norway, Vega at Santa Clara, California, USA, Driven-by-QCraft at Suzhou, China, OpenARM 2.0 at Worldwide (60+ countries), Sancho General-Purpose Robot at San Francisco, Digit at Schaeffler Manufacturing Facility, Sancho General-Purpose Robot at Palo Alto, California, USA, Saronic USV (Corsair / Mirage / Marauder) at USA, Moxi at United States

About 313 more pages name NVIDIA and were not checked here.

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