The Daily AI Show Inside Nvidia’s Nemotron Play, Real Agent Usage Data, and US Tech Force
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Dec 16, 2025 Nvidia opens up its Nematron models, boasting significant performance increases. There's a deep dive into how users employ AI agents, revealing a shift towards complex tasks. Google’s Disco is introduced, turning cluttered tabs into interactive apps for better workflow. The new US Tech Force aims to recruit elite tech talent, but questions arise about its bureaucracy and appeal. The ongoing competition between US and Chinese open-source models adds to the discussion about innovation in the tech landscape.
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NVIDIA's Open-Source Hardware+Model Play
- NVIDIA open-sourced the Nematron family spanning 30B to 500B parameters to stake a claim in open models.
- They emphasize hardware+software co-design to gain speed and inference advantages over rivals.
Chinese Models Lead Open-Source Benchmarks
- Chinese open models currently dominate open-source benchmarks and enterprise adoption.
- NVIDIA's move targets that landscape by providing competitive open models optimized for its hardware.
Real Agent Usage: Productivity Dominates
- Perplexity and Harvard analyzed ~100k agentic browser sessions to see real-world agent use.
- Productivity, learning, and research made up 57% of agentic queries while shopping and courses were large secondary categories.