Open Source at NVIDIA

Build the Future of AI in the Open

Open source advances through collaboration. NVIDIA builds frontier open models and contributes data, software, and standards across the AI ecosystem.

Introduction

Empowering Innovation

Open source is fundamental to making accelerated computing broadly accessible and usable across industries. NVIDIA champions and invests in open models and platforms to spark innovation, grow ecosystems, and empower enterprises to integrate and deploy AI with control and scale.

Open models are the lifeblood of innovation and the engine of global participation in the AI revolution — for students, scientists, startups and entire industries.

— Jensen Huang


650+

250+

open datasets

1K+

Repositories on Hugging Face

1.4K+

Released projects under an OSI-approved license on GitHub


Ecosystem

Open Source Organizations NVIDIA Supports

Open source foundations are critical to ensuring the long-term sustainability, security, and governance of open source projects. NVIDIA supports many of these foundations and consortiums, both financially and through participation in governing boards and technical advisory boards or committees.


NVIDIA Models

Open Models Built for the Frontier

Intelligence is more than just language. NVIDIA open model families span how machines reason, see the physical world, move through it, drive, and read biology.

Nemotron

Language and Agentic AI

Open models for agents that reason, plan, and use tools. Nano to Ultra, edge to data center, 1M-token context.

Cosmos

Physical AI

The first fully open omnimodel for generating physics-grounded worlds and augmenting existing text, image, video, sound, and action.

Isaac GR00T

Robotics

Open reasoning vision-language-action models for humanoid and general-purpose robots.

Alpamayo

Autonomous Vehicles

The frontier open driving reasoning model for autonomous vehicles and robotaxis development.

BioNeMo

Biology and Health

Open models for protein structure, genomics, and medical reasoning.


Earth-2

Weather Forecasting

Open weather and climate models for forecasting, downscaling, and data assimilation.

Ising

Quantum Computing

Open models for quantum computer calibration and quantum error correction.


Open Weights, Data, Recipes, and Evals

Being able to download a model doesn't mean much if you can't reproduce it, otherwise, it's just a licensed black box. NVIDIA publishes the full pipeline: the weights, the data, the recipe, and the tools to evaluate how to get there. Verify the results yourself—no need to take anyone's word for it.

Model Family Weights Data Recipe Evals License
Nemotron 3 âś“ âś“ âś“ âś“ OpenMDW 1.1
Cosmos 3 âś“ âś“ âś“ âś“ OpenMDW 1.1
Isaac GR00T âś“ âś“ âś“ âś“ NVIDIA Open Model License, Apache 2.0
Alpamayo âś“ âś“ âś“ âś“ OpenMDW 1.1
BioNeMo âś“ âś“ âś“ âś“ NVIDIA Open Model License, Apache 2.0
Earth-2 âś“ âś“ âś“ âś“ NVIDIA Open Model License, Apache 2.0
Ising âś“ âś“ âś“ âś“ OpenMDW 1.1

Commitments

Committed to Collaboration

Nemotron Coalition

Leading AI labs building open frontier language models together on NVIDIA DGX™ Cloud. Black Forest Labs, Cursor, LangChain, Mistral AI, Perplexity, Reflection AI, Sarvam, Thinking Machines Lab, H Company, Nous Research, Prime Intellect, NAVER Cloud.

Cosmos Coalition

World model builders and robotics leaders advancing open-world models. Agile Robots, Black Forest Labs, Generalist, LTX, Runway, Skild AI.


Open Secure AI Alliance

Over 120 organizations contributing open tools and insights to secure AI agents, including AWS, Cisco, Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, Hugging Face, IBM, Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, Red Hat, the Linux Foundation and more. 

Open Weights and American AI Leadership

NVIDIA joins Microsoft, Meta, Hugging Face, IBM, a16z, Palantir, and more than 200 others on why the world needs open frontier models—and why premature restrictions stifle progress.

Projects

An Open Stack That Makes Open Models Usable

A model is only as open as your ability to run it. NVIDIA open sources the underlying tooling—training, serving, data curation, evaluation, and the drivers themselves.

NeMo

Develop, train, fine-tune, and evaluate generative AI models.


Megatron Core

Train large transformer models across distributed GPU systems.


RAPIDS

Accelerate data preparation, analytics, and machine learning.


Isaac Platform

An open robotics development platform for simulating, training and deploying robotics applications.


TensorRT-LLM

Optimize LLM inference on NVIDIA GPUs.


Dynamo

Serve generative AI models across distributed GPU infrastructure.


Triton Inference Server

Serve models from multiple AI frameworks at scale.


NCCL

Enable high-performance communication across GPUs and nodes.


CUTLASS

Build high-performance CUDA kernels with open C++ templates.


Open GPU Kernel Modules

Support open source Linux GPU driver development.



Resources

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