Top AI Chipmaker Looks To Make Its Own AI Models
Nvidia reportedly plans to spend billions of dollars to compete against China's most advanced open-source artificial intelligence models and its own American customers.
Nvidia reportedly plans to spend billions of dollars to compete against China’s most advanced open-source artificial intelligence models and its own American customers.
Nvidia, the world’s largest chipmaker for the AI hardware market, announced a licensing deal with AI startup Poolside that would have the company directly compete against OpenAI and Anthropic to build its own open-source models, according to the Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter. Open-weight models typically cost less and allow for more customization compared to closed-source models such as Anthropic’s Claude or OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
Nvidia will invest $1 billion in the AI startup and pay $6 billion to license Poolside’s technology and hire many of its top engineers, per the Wall Street Journal.
The startup’s founders said that the deal would ensure that AI “would not be a closed technology controlled by few but one built by many out in the open.”
An Nvidia spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Over 100 Poolside employees will help develop Nvidia’s Nemotron project, which aims to develop open-weight models that the company released in 2023, the Journal reported.
American AI companies have focused on closed-source AI models instead of developing open-source models, which allow any user to download and alter them at will. China has emphasized developing open-source models, which has created concerns that too many will flock to Chinese AI over American closed-source models, according to the outlet.