Nvidia has been making strides to improve its open source and open AI initiatives. SchedMD deliver IT services with better reliability. They accomplished this by previously acquiring SchedMD, the premier developers of the popular open source workload management system, Slurm. This change fits neatly into Nvidia’s ongoing dedication to fostering open innovation in artificial intelligence. Last week, at our Transportation Tech Event Nvidia surprised everyone by announcing a major deal. Additionally, they unveiled their latest open All-reasoning vision language Model, Alpamayo-R1, tailored for autonomous driving research.
SchedMD was started in 2010 by Morris Jette and Danny Auble. In fact, ever since then, they’ve been instrumental in the development of Slurm, originally released back in 2002. SchedMD will become part of Nvidia’s HPC organization, enhancing the company’s capabilities to maximize workloads and improve efficiency. This latest move is sure to cement Nvidia’s continued dominance of the burgeoning AI space.
Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia, articulated the significance of this acquisition, stating, “Open innovation is the foundation of AI progress.” This exuberance is a hallmark of Nvidia’s overall strategy to encourage collaborative development in the booming AI community. In conjunction with the Arm acquisition, Nvidia announced a new family of open AI models and continues. Nvidia expands its Cosmos world models. With a permissively-licensed set of these models released for public use, a greater number of developers are able to access and leverage these advanced AI technologies.
It has released new models and increased its extensive dataset. Since the launch, they have iterated on increasing workflows and guides to support their Cosmos world models. Through our demonstration projects, this initiative aims to address the challenges of making the development process more efficient for researchers and developers creating AI applications.
Huang emphasized the potential impact of these developments on the industry: “With Nemotron, we’re transforming advanced AI into an open platform that gives developers the transparency and efficiency they need to build agentic systems at scale.” This remark particularly highlights Nvidia’s aim to foster a more open climate for AI development.
Becca Szkutak, senior writer at Tech Crunch with a focus on venture capital trends and startups, has laid bare these developments. With other questions or tips, she can be contacted by email at rebecca.szkutak@techcrunch.com.
