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NVIDIA Open Agent Development Platform at GTC 2026: OpenShell Open-Source Runtime for Self-Evolving Agents
NVIDIA announced its Open Agent Development Platform at GTC 2026, including OpenShell — an open-source runtime for building self-evolving AI agents — positioning the GPU giant as a platform-level competitor in the agent framework space alongside Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic. The platform builds on NVIDIA's NIM microservices and NeMo ecosystem, framing NVIDIA's agent strategy as GPU-accelerated infrastructure for agent execution rather than just model inference. The 'self-evolving' framing indicates agents that can modify their own tool configurations and skill sets at runtime, a capability class distinct from current static agent definitions.
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