Nvidia announced the Nvidia Nemotron Coalition, a global collaboration between open model builders and AI developers advancing frontier open models through shared research, expertise, data and compute — helping accelerate innovation across the global AI ecosystem.
Through the coalition, Black Forest Labs, Cursor, LangChain, Mistral AI, Perplexity,
Reflection AI, Sarvam and Thinking Machines Lab will bring together their expertise to
collaboratively build open frontier models.
By combining forces, the coalition aims to accelerate progress on AI models, expanding intelligence beyond any single model and strengthening a vibrant open ecosystem while making model development more efficient so organizations can build, specialize and innovate on a shared, open foundation.
Nvidia announced the news during the GTC keynote by CEO Jensen Huang at the company’s GTC event on Monday in San Jose, California.
The first project stemming from the coalition will be a base model codeveloped by Mistral
AI and Nvidia, bringing together the AI expertise and technology of both companies. Coalition members will contribute data, evaluations and domain expertise to support the
model’s post-training and continued development.
The model will enable developers and organizations to post-train and specialize AI systems for their industries, regions and unique needs. Trained on Nvidia DGX Cloud, the model will be shared with the open ecosystem and underpin the upcoming Nvidia Nemotron 4 family of models.
“Open models are the lifeblood of innovation and the engine of global participation in the
AI revolution — for students, scientists, startups and entire industries,” said Huang, in a statement. “The Nvidia Nemotron Coalition unites world-class AI labs to develop frontier open models that champion transparency, collaboration and sovereignty — broadening access to intelligence and ensuring the future of AI is shaped with the world and built for the world.”
Global model builders and AI-native companies advance open frontier AI
The coalition brings together leaders across the AI ecosystem, each defining the state of
the art in its respective domain. Members may contribute their unique expertise —
including data, evaluation frameworks, research and experts — to collaboratively develop a shared model. By contributing to this common foundation, partners aim to strengthen the open AI ecosystem while continuing to advance the independent models and platforms they build.
Expected contributions span multimodal capabilities from Black Forest Labs, real-world
performance requirements and evaluation datasets from Cursor, and specialization in
enabling AI agents with reliable tool use and long-horizon reasoning from LangChain.
The coalition also includes frontier model development capabilities from Mistral AI,
including its expertise in building efficient customizable models that offer full control. It
further includes accessible, high-performing AI systems from Perplexity. Additional
expertise includes work by Reflection AI to build dependable open systems, sovereign
language AI development from Sarvam AI and data collaboration with Thinking Machines
Lab.
“At BFL, we develop multimodal generative models for visual intelligence, ranging from
images to real-time video and action prediction models,” said Robin Rombach, cofounder
and CEO of Black Forest Labs, in a statemnt. “We have always been convinced that open models help drive frontier capabilities. Through coalitions like this one, between independent partners, we can reach the scale needed to accelerate the next generation of state-of-the-art open multimodal models.”