REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Box, Inc. (NYSE: BOX), the leading Intelligent Content Management (ICM) platform, today announced an expanded collaboration with NVIDIA that enables organizations to securely execute AI-powered workflows at scale. Box is introducing Box Context Retrieval, a new engine powered by NVIDIA Nemotron models, and bringing the NVIDIA Nemotron family of frontier-level open weight models to Box AI. Box and NVIDIA are also extending security and governance to agent execution through NVIDIA OpenShell, providing agents with the content needed to execute their tasks within a secure runtime. These new features will be unveiled today at BoxWorks 2026 in San Francisco, where Box will showcase the next wave of secure AI innovation for the enterprise.

“Enterprise AI reaches its full potential when models and agents can securely access the unique context of a business,” said Aaron Levie, CEO and co-founder of Box. “By partnering with NVIDIA, we are creating a new intelligence layer for enterprise content that gives customers faster, more precise ways to ground AI in the content that powers their business. Open weight AI is an important part of that vision, complementing closed models while driving innovation and broader adoption across the industry. Together, these capabilities give enterprises more choice in how they build AI workflows while preserving the security that Box is known for.”

“AI agents need more than intelligence. They need the knowledge and context of the business to do useful work,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “Box and NVIDIA are connecting agents to enterprise knowledge with fast, accurate retrieval, Nemotron open models and OpenShell for secure agent execution. We’re giving enterprises the foundation for agents that understand their business and turn knowledge into action.”

Introducing Box Context Retrieval, a new engine for enterprise AI

Agents are increasingly embedded across everyday workflows, but their value depends on access to the unique context that defines how a business operates. This context comes from the files, such as contracts, policies, customer history, and institutional knowledge, that live within enterprise content. To equip agents with the accurate information they need to work effectively, Box is introducing Box Context Retrieval, an advanced engine powered by NVIDIA Nemotron Retriever, a collection of open models that transforms enterprise data into a structured knowledge layer that agents can reason over.

With NVIDIA Nemotron Retriever embedding models, the Box Context Retrieval engine will enable agents to more accurately and efficiently retrieve relevant, permission-aware information across millions of files, including content that has historically been difficult for AI to interpret, such as scanned documents, images, audio, and video. Customers will have the potential to improve search accuracy by 20 percent (Recall@5), reduce token usage by 90 percent, and accelerate question-answering speeds fourfold, helping them access trusted enterprise knowledge and increase productivity.

With these new capabilities, customers will:

• Receive answers they can trust through permission-aware retrieval, which provides AI agents with relevant information from only the content users are permitted to access, enabling precise responses grounded in their unique enterprise knowledge;
• Access relevant information more efficiently through significantly faster indexing and lower latency, making new and updated Box content available to AI agents in real time;
• Find the right information across more of their enterprise content using multimodal indexing to make scanned documents, images, audio and video searchable, and hybrid search to combine precise keyword matching with an understanding of meaning and context – even without knowing the exact words to search.

Bringing NVIDIA’s open weight models to Box

The collaboration will also bring NVIDIA’s frontier-scale, open weight Nemotron models, including NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra, to Box. Box’s multi-model approach to enterprise AI gives customers the flexibility to select the right model for each task based on performance, cost, and control. With access to NVIDIA’s open models, Box customers can now access frontier-scale intelligence with more cost-efficiency for specialized, high-volume workloads – all while maintaining transparency and keeping their content securely managed in Box.

By leveraging the capabilities of NVIDIA’s open weight and embedding models in Box:

• Financial analysts can ask questions about loan applications and receive answers grounded only in the content they are permitted to access, helping protect sensitive customer information;
• Legal professionals can find relevant clauses and precedents across contracts and matter files, even when different terminology is used, by combining precise keyword search with an understanding of broader legal concepts;
• Clinical researchers can access newly added or updated policies, care protocols and research in real time, helping them work with the most current information available in Box;
• Insurance auditors can analyze complete claim packages across scanned forms, property images, recorded statements and video evidence, making all unstructured information available to AI agents;
• University administrators can use NVIDIA’s open-weight models within Box to ask questions, extract information, and complete multi-step research workflows across university policies, research materials, student services documents, and other institutional content.

Securing agent execution

As members of the Open Secure AI Alliance, Box and NVIDIA are collaborating on AI safety to help enterprises deploy agents with greater control over how they access content, use tools, and execute tasks. The collaboration brings together Box’s enterprise content security and governance capabilities through Box Mount, and NVIDIA OpenShell’s secure runtime, policy enforcement, and supervision to advance safer agent workflows in the Box platform.

Availability

The Box Context Retrieval engine will be generally available to Enterprise Advanced customers early next year. NVIDIA's Nemotron models, beginning with 3 Ultra, are now available in Box AI to Enterprise Advanced customers. For more information, visit the Box blog.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including statements regarding Box’s new context retrieval engine, its planned product features and future enhancements, and the market adoption and benefits of such product features and enhancements. There are a significant number of factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the statements made in this press release, including: (1) adverse changes in general economic or market conditions; (2) Box’s ability to partner with third parties to integrate AI technologies with Box’s Intelligent Content Management platform; (3) delays or reductions in information technology spending; (4) the risk that Box’s customers do not renew their subscriptions, expand their use of Box’s services, or adopt new products or features offered by Box on a timely basis, or at all; (5) Box’s ability to provide timely and successful product introductions, enhancements, new features and modifications to its platform and services; and (6) actual or perceived security vulnerabilities in Box AI or other Box services or any breaches of Box’s security controls. Any unreleased services or features referenced in this or other press releases or public statements are not currently available and may not be delivered on time or at all. Customers who purchase Box products should make their purchase decisions based upon features that are currently available. Additional information on potential factors that could affect Box’s financial results is included in the reports on Forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K and in other filings Box makes with the Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time. These documents are available on the SEC Filings section of Box’s Investor Relations website located at www.boxinvestorrelations.com. Box does not assume any obligation to update the forward-looking statements contained in this press release to reflect events that occur or circumstances that exist after the date on which they were made.

About Box

Box (NYSE:BOX) is the leader in Intelligent Content Management. Our platform enables organizations to fuel collaboration, manage the entire content lifecycle, secure critical content, and transform business workflows with enterprise AI. Founded in 2005, Box simplifies work for leading global organizations, including JLL, Morgan Stanley, and Nationwide. Box is headquartered in Redwood City, CA, with offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia. Visit box.com to learn more. And visit box.org to learn more about how Box empowers nonprofits to fulfill their missions.