Nvidia moved to deepen its open-source footprint, acquiring SchedMD, the developer behind the Slurm workload manager widely used in high-performance computing and AI, and rolling out a new family of open AI models called Nemotron 3. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. Nvidia said Slurm will remain open source and vendor-neutral as it invests to broaden the software’s reach across systems. Separately, the company introduced Nemotron 3 models—Nano, Super and Ultra—aimed at building more efficient, accurate AI agents. The steps follow recent releases including Alpamayo-R1, a reasoning vision-language model for autonomous driving, and expanded guidance for its open Cosmos world models. “Open innovation is the foundation of AI progress,” Chief Executive Jensen Huang said, positioning the initiatives as groundwork for “physical AI” applications in robotics and self-driving vehicles that could spur further demand for Nvidia’s GPUs.
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