Free NVIDIA Models

How to add NVIDIA free models to VS Code

NVIDIA offers free access to their powerful Nemotron models through their NVIDIA Build platform. In this post, I’ll walk you through how to get a free API key and configure it in VS Code to use models like nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b directly in VS Code. Also you can choose any other model from here. Prerequisites VScode needs to be above 1.27 it needs to have customendpoint supporting Getting Your Free NVIDIA API Key Go to build.nvidia.com Sign in or create an NVIDIA account Navigate to the model you want to use (e.g., Nemotron 3 Ultra) Click “Get API Key” button Note: In my experience, the “Get API Key” button in the UI didn’t work properly (it appeared to do nothing). If this happens to you, here’s how to get your API key: ...

July 19, 2026 · 4 min · Özkan Pakdil
junie

JetBrains Junie: Is It Better Than Other AI Coding Assistants?

My Journey with Junie: A Game-Changer for Developers Over the past three weeks, I’ve been extensively using JetBrains Junie, and I’m genuinely impressed with how it has transformed my development workflow. In this short period, I’ve successfully implemented three significant features with remarkable ease. Based on my experience, Junie offers capabilities that go well beyond what GitHub Copilot provides. The AI Coding Assistant Landscape I’ve been using GitHub Copilot in JetBrains Rider for about a year now. It’s undeniably a helpful tool - whenever I get stuck, I can ask Copilot for assistance. I’ve also experimented with various other LLM models; Sonnet 3.7’s thinking mode has been particularly effective at generating quality code. ...

May 17, 2025 · 3 min · Özkan Pakdil

Claude ai computer use

Latest AI news are making GPT and others very popular, and this is AI bubble, probably it will settle down in 2-3 years and we will have stable AI. Right now people are scared they will lose their job, some are very excited to try new things and test the fringe. Anyway couple of days ago I heard about claude ai published that computer use feature, basically AI will use our computer to do our prompts. What is that mean ? it means from simple stuff like copy this file from folder 1 to 2 or go research about cats and find me whales in google and categorically create folders of whales for me to look at that in the evening. So AI will do all and wait for you to check. ...

October 29, 2024 · 2 min · Özkan Pakdil