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Nvidia, DOE Announce Seven New AI Supercomputers Built for Science

Tuesday, at its GTC event in Washington, D.C., Nvidia announced it is working with the U.S. Department of Energy’s national labs to build seven new supercomputers. Five of these ...Full Article

LANL and UNM Scientists Apply THOR AI to Compute Complex Materials Properties 400x Faster

Sept. 17, 2025 -- Researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of New Mexico have developed a novel computational framework that addresses a longstanding challenge in statistical physics. ...Full Article

LANL Launches Frontier AI Models on the Venado Supercomputer

After moving to a classified network earlier this year, the Venado supercomputer at LANL is now running OpenAI’s latest o-series reasoning models to accelerate national security research. LOS ALAMOS, ...Full Article

Los Alamos Sensor Data Sheds Light on Powerful Lightning Within Clouds

Aug. 15, 2025 -- A research team at Los Alamos National Laboratory recently found that the strength difference between two very high-frequency radio pulses in lightning is closely related to ...Full Article

Venado’s Yearlong Voyage Powers Vital AI Science

May 5, 2025 -- In the year following its April 2024 ribbon cutting, Venado — the Lab's newest, AI capable supercomputer — racked up an impressive collection of success ...Full Article

A futuristic neural network under intense adversarial attack; at left, distortions and corrupted data streams (in red) overwhelm a neural network, and at right, a powerful AI defense mechanism of denoising energy (in blue) dissolve interference and restore the network. Image created in DALL-E by Manish Bhattarai. (Source: LANL)

New Los Alamos AI Defense Method Shields Models from Adversarial Attacks

This article was first published by Los Alamos National Laboratory and is reproduced here with permission. Neural networks, a type of artificial intelligence modeled on the connectivity of the ...Full Article

LANL Explores Diffusion-Based AI Models for Accelerator Diagnostics

Jan. 17, 2025 -- Accelerators — machines that speed up particles such as protons — are useful in nuclear and high-energy physics as well as materials science, dynamic imaging and ...Full Article

LANL: Neutron Star Mergers Contribute to AI Training Models

Dec. 12, 2024 -- Neutron star merger simulations developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) are making important contributions to a collaborative initiative, Polymathic AI, which is training artificial ...Full Article

Cerebras Sets New Record in Molecular Dynamics at 1.1M Simulations per Second

Cerebras Systems, a pioneer in wafer-scale processing, in collaboration with researchers from Sandia, Lawrence Livermore, and Los Alamos National Laboratories, has set another world record and important breakthrough in molecular dynamics ...Full Article

LANL and OpenAI Partner to Advance AI Safety in Biological Threat Assessments

July 12, 2024 -- Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) are working with OpenAI on an evaluation study to bolster artificial intelligence safety. The upcoming evaluation will be ...Full Article