Nvidia announced a dual expansion of its open AI strategy with the acquisition of SchedMD, the primary developer of the open source workload manager Slurm, alongside the launch of a new family of open AI models called Nvidia Nemotron 3. Financial terms of the SchedMD deal were not disclosed. Slurm, launched in 2002 and widely used across high-performance computing and AI environments, will remain open source and vendor-neutral under Nvidia ownership. SchedMD was founded by lead Slurm developers Morris Jette and Danny Auble, who continues as CEO.
Alongside the acquisition, Nvidia introduced Nemotron 3 Nano, Super, and Ultra, positioning the models as an efficient open foundation for building AI agents. Under the leadership of Jensen Huang, Nvidia continues to expand open AI infrastructure as it targets large-scale agentic and physical AI workloads.
