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2026-07-16 07:04:11
[Nvidia Releases Jetson Thor Chip, Deepens Partnership with Toyota, Japanese Companies Accelerate Adoption of Nemotron Models] 1. Nvidia launched its new Jetson Thor chip computer, designed to advance mainstream robotics and edge AI. Based on a next-generation GPU architecture, the chip boasts approximately eight times the computing power of its predecessor, Jetson Orin, supporting real-time inference scenarios such as humanoid robots, industrial automation, and edge AI servers. 2. Nvidia announced an expanded partnership with Toyota to advance physical AI technologies in the automotive, robotics, and urban sectors. Toyota has already collaborated with Nvidia on autonomous driving for many years; this expanded partnership covers logistics robots, smart factories, and urban traffic management. Toyota plans to integrate the Jetson Thor platform into its next-generation autonomous delivery vehicles and warehouse robots by 2027. 3. Japanese companies adopting Nvidia's Nemotron large language model include energy giant ENEOS, NTT Data, and Hitachi. Japanese companies are using Nvidia's Nemotron open model to build AI applications. Nemotron is an open model series released by NVIDIA in February 2026, covering various scales from 9 billion to 320 billion parameters. It uses a permissive license, allowing commercial use.
