Nvidia and DeepSeek Battle Over Multimodal AI Agents in 2026

Nvidia and DeepSeek are escalating their moves into multimodal AI, unveiling models that combine vision, audio, and language into long-context agents. Nvidia's Nemotron 3 Nano Omni integrates these modalities for practical agent applications, while DeepSeek has released DeepSeek Vision with a similar universal device vision. The race is on to dominate the next generation of AI agents capable of processing multiple inputs seamlessly.