At ISC Hamburg, NVIDIA introduced DAQIRI, ALCHEMI NIM, and cuPhoton software to accelerate science. cuPhoton achieved up to 14,900x speedup in astronomical data processing, while DAQIRI enables real-time AI on high-speed data streams. ALCHEMI accelerates materials simulation, with Lila Sciences using it to speed up materials screening by 50x.

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is building three new supercomputers with HPE and NVIDIA, powered by NVIDIA Vera CPUs, to accelerate scientific discovery and enable agentic AI for science. The systems—Mission, Vision, and Veritas—use the HPE Cray GX5000 architecture with the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform. Early tests show Vera CPUs delivering 7x higher performance on URSA workloads and over 3x on heat transfer simulations compared to Crossroads x86 CPUs. Mission, expected in 2027, will replace Crossroads for classified national security work, while Vision will support fundamental science.

AI's growth is energy-hungry. Eco Wave Power uses NVIDIA AI and digital twins to convert ocean wave energy into clean electricity, leveraging existing coastal infrastructure. Wave energy is abundant, less intermittent, and can potentially power AI factories and data centers.

New research shows AI consistently out-persuades expert humans in text-based conversations, even affecting real-world donations. Meanwhile, forecasts suggest self-sustaining AI could arrive within 10 to 50 years, and DeepMind maps out the journey from AGI to superintelligence.