Nvidia continues to develop 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 corporate’s weblog submit.
Nvidia has been working with SchedMD for greater than a decade and stated in its weblog submit the expertise is important infrastructure for generative AI. The corporate plans to maintain investing within the expertise and “speed up” its entry to totally different techniques.
The semiconductor firm additionally launched a brand new household of open AI fashions on Monday. The corporate claimed this group of fashions, known 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 functions, and Nemotron 3 Extremely, constructed for extra difficult duties.
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“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 remodeling superior AI into an open platform that provides 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 below a permissive license, to assist builders higher use the fashions to develop bodily AI.
The exercise is reflective of Nvidia’s wager that bodily AI would be the subsequent frontier for its GPUs. Nvidia desires to be the go-to provider for the various robotics — or self-driving automobile — firms searching for the AI and software program to develop the brains behind the expertise.
