Nvidia is accelerating efforts to lead technological advances in open-weight models. It recently signed a $6 billion licensing deal with coding AI startup Poolside that includes hiring most of its engineers, and will also invest $1 billion at a $12 billion pre-money valuation. The Wall Street Journal reported Nvidia will use Poolside to speed development of a world-class open-weight model to compete with Chinese AI companies.

Nvidia is speeding up its push to develop and distribute its own open-source AI models as part of an effort to expand hardware demand, although some see a risk of competition with AI companies that buy its chips. The Information reported Nvidia is developing the open-source large language model Nemotron 4 with at least 1 trillion parameters. Nvidia has also rolled out lightweight models and free routing software and increased spending on computing resources through cloud contracts.