By Ece Yildirim
Publication Date: 2025-12-15 17:20:00
It seems that chips dominance isn’t enough for Nvidia. The tech giant wants its products to be present at every level of the AI development ecosystem, and its got its eyes on open-source AI models.
Nvidia released its latest Nemotron 3 family of open models on Monday, only months after announcing the first iteration at the company’s GTC event in March. The company press release claims they possess “leading accuracy for building agentic AI applications.”
Open-source AI is often preferred by some users, like firms or governments, for its ability to be customized to the hyper-specific needs of the industry, and for being more private by giving organizations the ability to run the data on their own internal servers instead of the AI company’s.
American tech giants had largely drawn back from the world of open source models as the companies increasingly opted for proprietary options that they can arguably make more money out of. Largely the only exception to this has been Meta which is also reportedly eyeing a shift to proprietary. Even OpenAI, which purports to be an “open” organization unveiled only its first open source model in five years this past August with the release of gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b.
In Silicon Valley’s relative absence, Chinese models have dominated the open source space with high profile releases from DeepSeek and Alibaba. It’s all part of China’s strategy to achieve global AI dominance: an “AI for all”…
