BoodleBox brings Nvidia Nemotron AI to 1,300 campuses

BoodleBox has announced a collaboration with Nvidia that adds Nvidia's Nemotron open models to BoodleBox's collaborative AI platform, which is used across more than 1,300 colleges and universities.

The companies said BoodleBox has integrated the Nemotron 3 Nano open model as a native AI assistant inside its platform. BoodleBox said the platform reaches more than 800,000 students and faculty.

The collaboration centres on higher education use cases, where institutions set rules for access, audit trails, and acceptable use. BoodleBox positions its product around shared workspaces for classes and groups, rather than individual use of chatbots.

Open models

BoodleBox said the Nemotron integration offers students an open-model AI experience. The company said educators can use the assistant during teaching and group activities.

"Integrating NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano helps us accelerate AI innovation in education while keeping collaboration, transparency, and responsible use at the center," said France Hoang, CEO and Founder, BoodleBox. "This collaboration advances our mission to make powerful AI accessible and practical for teaching and learning, so institutions can prepare students for an AI-integrated future."

Nvidia framed the arrangement as an education deployment of its open models through an AI assistant inside an existing platform.

"BoodleBox is helping prepare the next generation for an AI-powered world by integrating NVIDIA Nemotron open models into their AI assistant," said Joey Conway, Senior Director of Generative AI Software, Nvidia.

Classroom workflows

BoodleBox said its platform supports multi-user chat for classes and smaller groups working in shared AI sessions. The company also said users can work with uploaded materials, shared resources, visuals, data and code as part of projects that run over longer time periods.

The company said educators can set classroom workflows around inquiry-based learning and personalised instruction. It said students can use the assistant to explore ideas, analyse information and develop skills in groups.

BoodleBox also said the platform allows students and staff to revisit prior work and develop longer-term projects. It described this as continuity across learning activities.

Wider stack

BoodleBox said it plans to expand access to additional Nemotron open models beyond Nemotron 3 Nano. It also said it is exploring Nvidia Clara for biomedical learning use cases and Nvidia Cosmos for physical and engineering-focused AI applications.

The company said it is using Nvidia AI Blueprints and related technologies in product development. It said it incorporated Nvidia LLM Router Blueprint principles into BoodleBot, which it described as an auto-routing assistant. It also said it drew on Nvidia Enterprise RAG Blueprint guidance for its document and memory management system.

On infrastructure, BoodleBox said it will use Nvidia AI infrastructure through Microsoft Azure. It said this will reduce response times and operational costs for institutions. It also said schools and universities can deploy the technology without specialist hardware investments.

Campus adoption

BoodleBox said it has gained usage across higher education since launch, with adoption at more than 1,300 institutions. It said the platform focuses on transparency and collaboration, linking these to student outcomes and operational metrics.

The company cited measures that included an 83% improvement in student prompting skills, an 87% preference among students for the platform over other AI platforms, and a 95%+ reduction in environmental impact. It did not provide methodology details alongside those figures.

BoodleBox also said its platform meets FERPA requirements. It described the product as designed for regulated educational environments.

Texas A&M's Mays Business School described its own work with the platform in terms of learning, innovation and broader institutional aims.

"At Mays Business School, our vision is building a better future through business, and today that requires much more than merely acknowledging artificial intelligence," said Arnold Castro, Assistant Dean of AI of Mays Business School at Texas A&M University. "It requires rethinking how we learn, innovate, and ultimately change the world. Our partnership with BoodleBox, using NVIDIA AI infrastructure and Nemotron open models, advances our mission by empowering our faculty and students to use cutting-edge AI technology to deepen learning, expand creativity, and amplify impact, as we work together to prepare the next generation of principled business leaders."

BoodleBox said it participates in Nvidia Inception, the company's startup programme. It said the programme provides access to developer tools and technical training, alongside other support.

The company said it will continue work on additional education-focused applications built around Nvidia's open models and related software components.