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NVIDIA has released Video Codec SDK 13.1, introducing significant enhancements to video encoding and decoding capabilities. Key updates include hierarchical reference mode support for AV1 with up to 31 B-frames, which improves encoding quality and bitrate efficiency without performance penalties. Th

Qilimanjaro's integration of QiliSDK with NVIDIA's CUDA-Q represents a significant advancement in quantum computing simulation capabilities. This collaboration leverages GPU acceleration to dramatically reduce quantum system simulation times, accelerating the practical development of quantum computi

Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech has integrated its QiliSDK with NVIDIA's CUDA-Q platform, enabling researchers to leverage GPU acceleration for large-scale quantum workflow emulation on classical hardware. This advancement supports a multimodal computing approach across CPUs, GPUs, and both digital and ana

At Unreal Fest 2026, NVIDIA unveiled its ACE Game Agent SDK Beta, enabling game developers to integrate AI companions into titles running on GeForce RTX hardware. The SDK includes Unreal Engine 5 plugins for automatic speech recognition (ASR), small language models (SLM), and text-to-speech (TTS), s

At Unreal Fest 2026, NVIDIA unveiled the new NVIDIA ACE Game Agent SDK and Unreal Engine 5 plugins, aimed at empowering developers to build on-device AI companions. The SDK, built on a lightweight C/C++ framework, supports stateful reasoning, chat interfaces, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)

AMD's latest local AI server solution, the Lemonade SDK version 10.7, introduces support for NVIDIA CUDA, marking a significant step toward cross-platform compatibility. Originally designed to work across AMD CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs, the SDK now also supports NVIDIA's ecosystem, enabling a consistent l