Now you have an omnipotent model that reads, sees and listens. Everything at once

Eight years ago, when Nvidia was still a company that made graphics for video games, the company pointed out to something that is starting to enter the conversation: physical robotics. They are the robots with artificial intelligence integrated to behave autonomously. Like a ChatGPT with arms, ears and eyes. It has rained a lot since then and It’s now when we’re starting to enter that future. However, Nvidia has continued to experiment with that way of making the physical and digital worlds converge, and its latest product is the Nemotron 3 Nano Omni. An AI model that sees, hears and reads the physical world. Omni Models. These models are multimodalbut in a much stricter sense. While the models we use every day require separate channels to process and generate audio, text, image and video, an omni model is designed to be inherently multimodal. This implies that they use a unique neural network architecture trained end-to-end so that the interaction between models and stimuli is more natural, faster and capable of recognizing more nuances. An example is an AI that can “see” what a camera captures, analyze the entire situation and give feedback to the user more quickly than one that can do the same, but whose text model has to ask the video model what it has seen and then generate the content. In even fewer words: it better imitates the way humans perceive and respond to the stimuli of the world. Integration. And that’s what Nvidia affirms What Nemotron 3 Nano Omni can do. In the same architecture, it is a model that integrates vision, audio and language capabilities to eliminate the fragmented workflow of current AI agents. According to the company, it is built on a hybrid architecture of mixing experts (AIs trained in various subjects) with 30 billion parameters, of which 3 billion are for inference. It has been designed as a model that is nine times faster than separate models and has three times the performance of other open omni models, consuming 2.75 times less computing power in tasks such as reasoning from a video. Okay, but why?. That is the key question, beyond the numbers and the raw capabilities of this technology. The use cases detailed by the company are the following: Agents: power those agents that navigate graphical user interfaces, reasoning based on the content on the screen and understanding what they are seeing in real time and persistently. The native input resolution is 1920 x 1080 for that HD visual understanding. Documents– Interprets graphs, tables, documents, screenshots, and mixed media inputs. Comprehension audio and video: is able to understand what he sees and hears to maintain consistency in his interpretation instead of reasoning based on disconnected models. For professionals. What is clear is that Nemotron 3 Nano Omni is not something that is launched with the goal of being something for the masses like other AI models that we see every day. Nvidia focuses it on something business, a tool that can be accessed through platforms like Hugging Face and to be deployed on local systems such as DGX Spack or Jetson. That is, it is not something available to everyone. The interesting thing is that it is a technology that is strongly pushing the narrative of agents as omnipotent entities, and it fits with the speech latest from Jensen Huang, CEO of the company, that AI will not come to take away our jobs, but to ‘micromanage’ us. Image | Nvidia In Xataka | There is a company that has grown 3,000% in the stock market, even beating the performance of Nvidia: Sandisk

Many are still convinced that Instagram listens to the microphone. The app of the app has wanted to set the subject

In a meeting between friends you talk about making a weekend getaway, rural houses and whether it is worth renting a car. Hours later, when Instagram opens, ads appear for travel agencies, car rental portals and route recommendations. The feeling that The mobile “hears us” It is installed easily. In this context, Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, published a video to disassemble that myth and explain why we see ads that seem to guess our conversations. Meta has almost a decade denying sharply that their applications access the microphone without permission, but doubts never disappear at all. Now the discussion returns to the front line because The company has announced thatas of December, conversations with their artificial intelligence assistant will also be part of the customization of ads and recommendations (this change will not apply, at least for now, in the European Union). The denial and this novelty have communicated almost at the same time, which adds a striking nuance to the message. Mosseri says they don’t listen to us, while finishing another key novelty The closeness between both communications did not go unnoticed. Instagram head chosen a personal tone, even light, but at the same time he wanted cut the suspicion that the application listens to its users. He presented that statement as a starting point on which to build his explanation. His words were clear and it is worth reproducing them in full: “We do not listen to you. We do not use the microphone of the phone to spy on. If we did, it would be a serious violation of privacy. In addition, we would exhaust the battery of the device and noticed it, and you would even see a small light in the upper part of the screen that would tell you that the microphone is on.” For Mosseri, what seems to really be the effect of four quite common situations. One possibility is that before talking about a topic and lor we have sought without remembering it. Another is that someone in our environment has done it and the platform takes it as a indication. It can also happen that the announcement has appeared before and we did not pay attention, but that it later sneaks into the conversation. And the simplest explanation of all remains: it is a mere coincidence. “I want to reiterate that we do not listen to your microphone. I know that some of you are not going to believe me no matter how much I try to explain, but I wanted to make things clear. I am sure that the comments in this publication will be a bit intense. We see you soon. Paz.” It was not the first time that the company was trying to settle the suspicion. In 2016, Facebook said that did not use the phone’s microphone to guide ads or to change what appears in the Feed. Two years later, in an appearance before the United States Senate, Mark Zuckerberg was asked directly on the subject and rSponge With a “no” just as sharp. Years later, Meta support website itself included A document on the same line. Click to watch the video on Instagram Doubts about possible listening also led the academic community to test it. In 2017, a group of researchers from Northeastern University analyzed more than 17,000 Android applications, including those of Facebook, to check if they activated the microphone without the user knowing. After months of evidence, They found no evidence What happened. They did observe other data collection behaviors, but do not listen undercover. The authors themselves clarified, yes, that there were scenarios that were left out of their study. Beyond the studies, there is a technical aspect that should be remembered. In current mobiles, both in iOS and Android, any application that wants to use the microphone You need explicit user permission. In addition, when an actor appears active on the screen (a color point or a warning in the upper bar) that immediately points it. These notices, together with the extra battery consumption that would involve permanent listening, make it difficult to hide an undercover use of the microphone without the user noticed. The persistence of this myth is better understood if the context is observed. The directed advertising is so precise and so difficult to decipher for the average user that it is easier to attribute it to a microphone on than to an invisible data network. Our memory also influences. To this is added the history of mattress controversies in privacy. Images | Brett Jordan | Xataka with Gemini 2.5 | Screen capture In Xataka | I’ve been hooked to Sora 2 for two days: I’m generating absurd memes where I am the protagonist and I can’t stop

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