nvidia kumo relational beats supervised ml on relational data without training

nvidia released kumo relational, a pre-trained relational foundation model that operates directly on enterprise databases, making predictions in a single forward pass without task-specific training or feature engineering. it outperformed supervised relational deep learning models and expert-engineered gradient-boosted tree pipelines across 41 tasks on 15 databases, and surpassed autogluon ensembles by 8% in mean reciprocal rank (mrr) on the sap salt enterprise benchmark. kumo relational affects enterprise ml teams and database users by simplifying predictive modeling and enabling agents to anticipate and act on outcomes. it also signals a shift towards structured data foundation models.