Nvidia bulks up open source offerings with an acquisition and new open AI models 

Nvidia continues to broaden its footprint in open supply AI on two fronts: an acquisition and a brand new mannequin launch.

The semiconductor large introduced Monday it acquired SchedMD, the main developer of in style open supply workload administration system Slurm. Nvidia stated the corporate will proceed to function this system, which is designed for high-performance computing and AI, as an open supply, vendor-neutral software program.

Slurm was initially launched in 2002 and SchedMD was based in 2010 by the lead Slurm builders Morris Jette and Danny Auble. Auble is the present CEO of SchedMD.

Phrases of the deal weren’t disclosed. Nvidia declined to touch upon the information past the company’s blog post.

Nvidia has been working with SchedMD for greater than a decade and stated in its weblog put up the know-how is important infrastructure for generative AI. The corporate plans to maintain investing within the know-how and “speed up” its entry to completely different techniques.

The semiconductor firm additionally launched a brand new household of open AI fashions on Monday. The corporate claimed this group of fashions, referred to as Nvidia Nemotron 3, is essentially the most “environment friendly household of open fashions” for constructing correct AI brokers.

This mannequin household consists of the Nemotron 3 Nano, a small mannequin for focused duties, the Nemotron 3 Tremendous, a mannequin constructed for multi-AI agent purposes, and Nemotron 3 Extremely, constructed for extra sophisticated duties.

“Open innovation is the muse of AI progress,” Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia, wrote within the firm’s press launch. “With Nemotron, we’re reworking superior AI into an open platform that offers builders the transparency and effectivity they should construct agentic techniques at scale.”

In latest months, Nvidia has pushed to bolster its open supply and open AI choices.

Final week, the corporate introduced a brand new open reasoning imaginative and prescient language mannequin, Alpamayo-R1, which is targeted on autonomous driving analysis. The corporate additionally stated on the time it added extra workflows and guides protecting its Cosmos world fashions, that are open supply beneath a permissive license, to assist builders higher use the fashions to develop bodily AI.

The exercise is reflective of Nvidia’s guess that physical AI will be the next frontier for its GPUs. Nvidia desires to be the go-to provider for the various robotics — or self-driving automobile — corporations in search of the AI and software program to develop the brains behind the know-how.