NitroGen learns to act from 40,000 hours of gameplay video

Claim

NVIDIA introduced NitroGen, a vision-action foundation model trained on 40,000 hours of Twitch and YouTube gameplay, gaining 52% by learning to imagine optimal paths across 1,000 environments.

Reported metric: 40,000 h, +52%

Reporting date: 2025-12-21 (not necessarily the event date)

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