Los Alamos Lab Launches Frontier AI Models on Venado Supercomputer

Los Alamos, NM, Aug. 28, 2025—After moving to a classified network earlier this year, the Venado supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory is now running OpenAI’s latest o-series reasoning models to accelerate national security research. Venado, which uses NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips, is the 19th-fastest supercomputer in the world and serves as a shared resource for researchers […]

Los Alamos and OpenAI Partner on National Security

Los Alamos National Laboratory has entered a partnership with OpenAI to install its latest o-series models — which the lab said are capable of expert reasoning for complex scientific problems — on the lab’s Venado supercomputer, which uses NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips, to conduct national security research. “As threats to the nation become ….