NVIDIA Launches OpenShell Reference Architecture for Safe AI Agents
Key Highlights
- ➤OpenShell Reference Architecture now available for enterprise and edge AI agents
- ➤Vera Rubin NVL72 delivers 30x higher throughput per megawatt for agent workloads
- ➤BlueField-4 with Sentry quarantines out-of-bound agents in milliseconds
- ➤NVIDIA Vera CPUs deliver 2x x86 performance with greater energy efficiency
- ➤ServiceNow Arc generally available with runtime enforcement by NVIDIA OpenShell
Expert Statements
Jensen Huang, Founder and CEO of NVIDIA
“AI capability and safety must advance together”
Jensen Huang, Founder and CEO of NVIDIA
“As enterprises prepare to deploy billions of AI agents, safety and control must be built into the computing architecture”
Jensen Huang, Founder and CEO of NVIDIA
“NVIDIA created OpenShell to give agents the freedom to do useful work within clearly defined boundaries — contained, monitored and under control”
Jensen Huang, Founder and CEO of NVIDIA
“With the OpenShell Reference Architecture, agents can think on Rubin, act on Vera and be governed on BlueField”
News Summary: * The NVIDIA OpenShell Reference Architecture delivers enterprise governance, isolation and security for building, containing, observing and enforcing safe agents across enterprise infrastructure and edge systems. * Built on the foundation of NVIDIA OpenShell secure runtime software, the architecture brings together NVIDIA Vera Rubin infrastructure for model inference, NVIDIA Vera CPUs for agent harnesses and tool use, and NVIDIA BlueField-4 DPUs running NVIDIA Sentry for in-silicon enforcement. The OpenShell Reference Architecture extends to the edge with NVIDIA RTX Spark, NVIDIA DGX Spark and NVIDIA DGX Station systems. * The OpenShell Reference Architecture runs on leading enterprise operating systems, including Canonical, Red Hat, and Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Execution Containers. * Anthropic, AWS, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Dassault Systèmes, Dell Technologies, Google Cloud, HPE, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Palo Alto Networks, Perplexity, SAP, ServiceNow, Siemens, SpaceX Super Intelligence and others are among those working with the OpenShell Reference Architecture to enhance the security of agent deployments. BERLIN, Oct. 21, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GTC Berlin -- NVIDIA today announced the NVIDIA OpenShell Reference Architecture, which enables building, containing, observing and enforcing safe agents on enterprise infrastructure and edge systems.
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