Ai2 at NVIDIA GTC 2026: open models and key demos | Keryc
We'll be at NVIDIA GTC in San Jose from March 16 to 19. If you're going to the conference, Ai2 brings a mix of technical talks, strategic panels, and live demos that show everything from supervised training to tools for automatic data discovery. Want to see how open research connects with real training and observability infrastructure? Here’s where to find us and why it matters.
Participations destacadas de Ai2 en GTC 2026
Panel: Open Models: Where We Are and Where We're Headed
Hanna Hajishirzi, senior director at Ai2 and co-lead of the Olmo and Tulu projects, joins Jensen Huang and other industry figures to discuss the state and future of open models. It will be a high-level conversation about interoperability, governance, and where models that anyone can inspect should evolve.
Time: Wed, Mar 18 · 12:30–1:50 PM PT
Panel: The State of Open-Source AI
Ranjay Krishna, director of the PRIOR project and of the team behind the multimodal family , participates with leaders from NVIDIA and RadixArk. The focus: why open source is no longer just distribution, but the foundation for scalable research and production. At Ai2 we've seen the strongest progress when the community can inspect, reproduce, and extend the whole pipeline, not just download weights.
Molmo
Time: Tue, Mar 17 · 4:00–4:40 PM PT
Talk: Build Trust and Discovery Through Open-Source AI in Research
Hanna Hajishirzi meets with Percy Liang to talk about verification in research. They'll explore how open-source strengthens scientific workflows through clear provenance, transparent evaluations, and reproducible pipelines. The result? Models and methods researchers can audit and adapt to new domains.
Time: Wed, Mar 18 · 2:00–2:40 PM PT
Demos prácticas y colaboraciones en el piso
Demo: Olmo Hybrid SFT Training
Stop by the Lambda booth (1507) to see a live supervised fine-tuning session on Olmo Hybrid. You’ll see observability metrics like GPU temperature, memory usage, and overall utilization streamed on screen. It’s a great chance to connect training concepts (SFT) with infrastructure telemetry; Lambda provided the B200 infrastructure that powered the original pretraining.
Time: During GTC
Demo: Asta AutoDiscovery
At the Cirrascale booth (238) the Asta AutoDiscovery team will run live demos. AutoDiscovery is an AI-driven tool that explores datasets autonomously: it generates hypotheses, runs experiments, and surfaces unexpected findings. If you work with data, this demo can save you weeks of exploratory work.
Time: Wed, Mar 18 · 3–5 PM PT
Eventos de networking y cómo participar
After-hours: Cirrascale Presents: The Private AI Party
A networking reception one block from the convention center. Premium hors d'oeuvres, cocktails, and live entertainment. Sponsored by Cirrascale with Google, Ai2, Cisco, and Dell Technologies.
Time: Wed, Mar 18 · 7:00–10:00 PM PT
Location: Aura Kitchen + Bar, 389 S 1st St, San Jose, CA 95113
To ask about attendance, email info@allenai.org with the subject GTC.
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¿Por qué te debería importar, incluso si no eres ingeniero?
Because these sessions and demos show how open research ties into real systems: from traceability in experiments to hardware observability during training. That means AI doesn't just advance in papers, but becomes reproducible and scalable for applications in health, education, and startups. Don’t you want tools that are more reliable and auditable?
Ai2 at GTC isn't just an institutional presence; it's an invitation to see the engineering behind open models and to understand how they go into production with sound technical practices.
