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December 15, 2025
Nvidia bulks up open source offerings with an acquisition and new open AI models
Nvidia acquired SchedMD, the lead developer of Slurm, and launched the Nemotron 3 family of open source AI models.
TL;DR
- Nvidia acquired SchedMD, the leading developer of the open source workload management system Slurm.
- SchedMD will continue to operate Slurm as an open source, vendor-neutral software.
- Nvidia plans to invest in Slurm to accelerate its access to different systems, calling it critical infrastructure for generative AI.
- Nvidia released Nemotron 3, a new family of open AI models claimed to be the most efficient for building AI agents.
- The Nemotron 3 family includes Nano, Super, and Ultra models for various tasks and applications.
- Nvidia's CEO stated that open innovation is fundamental to AI progress, aiming to make advanced AI an open platform for developers.
- The company recently announced the open reasoning vision language model Alpamayo-R1 for autonomous driving research and updated its Cosmos world models.
- Nvidia is betting on physical AI as the next frontier for its GPUs and aims to be a key supplier for robotics and self-driving vehicle companies.
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