NVIDIA Agent Toolkit expanded with new tools
NVIDIA Blog: NVIDIA Agent Toolkit Expands, Grounding Enterprise Agents in Company Data
Agents are only as useful as what they know, and only as trustworthy as the boundaries they run within. Leading enterprises are using the open source NVIDIA Agent Toolkit — now expanded with new tools — to customize and control agents, use company data to inform their answers and actions, monitor what they do and govern how they operate. NVIDIA Agent Toolkit comprises: The new NVIDIA Agent Knowledge Foundation with NVIDIA CUDA-X libraries NVIDIA open models including Nemotron Retriever and th
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NVIDIA has expanded its open source Agent Toolkit, a set of software components designed to help enterprises build AI agents that use company data while operating within controlled boundaries. The toolkit includes a new Knowledge Foundation with libraries and open models that can translate raw company data into business concepts, along with runtime and security tools that give enterprises control over what agents can access and do. This matters because agents are only useful when they have access to relevant information and operate reliably within defined governance limits, which these new tools are designed to enable. Multiple major enterprises and technology companies are already adopting these components to deploy specialized agents for various business functions.
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