NVIDIA says open models drive ICML 2026 research

NVIDIA says open models and open AI infrastructure are now foundational to modern AI research, based on papers accepted at ICML 2026.

• 74 papers were accepted at ICML 2026 from NVIDIA, and about 2,000 accepted papers cite NVIDIA GPUs while 145 cite NVIDIA Nemotron as a foundation for research.
• The article highlights use of Cosmos, Isaac GR00T, BioNeMo, NeMo Curator, and other open model families across robotics, autonomous vehicles, synthetic data generation, and biomedical research; it also notes KiloCode reporting token cost reductions of up to 90%.
• This is a commentary/analysis-style NVIDIA blog post, not a third-party report, and it references multiple recent research uses and ecosystem adopters rather than announcing a single new commercial deal.