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Scaling Agentic AI Workflows with NVIDIA BlueField-4 Memory Storage Platform

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Long-context agents turn memory into infrastructure. BlueField-4 is NVIDIA’s attempt to make that infrastructure a first-class layer. The next bottleneck in agentic AI isn’t just “bigger models.” It’s memory. As more AI-native teams build agentic workflows, they’re hitting a practical limit: keeping enough context available to stay coherent across tools, turns, and sessions without turning inference into an expensive, bandwidth-heavy memory problem. NVIDIA’s proposed answer is a BlueField-4-powered Inference Context Memory Storage Platform , positioned as a shared “context memory” layer designed for gigascale agentic inference. TL;DR Agentic workflows push context sizes up: multi-turn agents want continuity across long tasks and repeated tool use, which increases context and memory pressure. Scaling isn’t linear: longer context increases working-state memory and data movement, not only GPU compute. NVIDIA’s proposal: treat inference context (inclu...

Overcoming Performance Plateaus in Large Language Model Training with Reinforcement Learning

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Disclaimer: This article is for informational purposes only and is not professional advice. Training methods and technologies evolve over time. Decisions regarding model training should be made based on current, verified information. Training large language models (LLMs) can often hit performance plateaus, where improvements slow or stop despite continued effort. This challenge is particularly relevant in the context of Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards (RLVR), a method that uses feedback to guide model development. Recent research has introduced Prolonged Reinforcement Learning (ProRL) as a strategy to overcome these plateaus. By extending the training steps, ProRL offers models more opportunities to learn from feedback, potentially unlocking new reasoning strategies. Defining Performance Plateaus in LLMs Performance plateaus in LLM training occur when a model's progress stagnates, limiting its ability to produce more accurate or natural language ...