NVIDIA AI Updates: August 1, 2026

1. NVIDIA Details Co-Designing Model Attention for Fast Long-Context Inference

NVIDIA. NVIDIA published technical guidance on co-designing model attention mechanisms with hardware to accelerate long-context inference. The post focuses on reducing latency for interactive applications that must process large context windows. Source

2. NVIDIA Releases Video Codec SDK 13.1 With Zero-Copy Transcode and AV1 B-Frames

NVIDIA. NVIDIA released Video Codec SDK 13.1, adding zero-copy transcoding, AV1 B-frame support, and frame-accurate seek. The update targets higher throughput and greater precision for GPU-accelerated video encoding and decoding pipelines. Source