NVIDIA announced the creation of the NVIDIA Nemotron Coalition, which is a global effort that brings together leading AI model development companies and technology innovators in an effort to accelerate the creation of open frontier AI models.
The NVIDIA Nemotron Coalition brings together leading global organizations such as Black Forest Labs, Cursor, LangChain, Mistral AI, Perplexity, Reflection AI, Sarvam AI, and Thinking Machines Lab. These organizations are working collaboratively to build the next generation of AI models that extend beyond the capabilities that any one of them can build on their own.
By working collaboratively, the NVIDIA Nemotron Coalition is working to accelerate the creation of AI, improve the efficiency of AI, and expand access to advanced AI technology so that organizations around the world can build and customize on an open foundation.
First Initiative: Co-Developed Base Model
The coalition’s first major initiative will be the development of a base AI model co-created by NVIDIA and Mistral AI. This model will leverage the combined technical expertise of both companies, with coalition members contributing data, evaluation frameworks and domain-specific insights to support post-training and ongoing optimization.
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Built on NVIDIA DGX Cloud, the model will be made available to the broader AI ecosystem. It is also expected to serve as the foundation for the upcoming NVIDIA Nemotron™ 4 model family, enabling developers to fine-tune and specialize AI systems for industry-specific and regional applications.
“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 Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “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.”
“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. “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.”
“When frontier models are accessible and transparent, developers everywhere can help shape how this technology evolves,” said Michael Truelle, cofounder and CEO of Cursor. “Through the NVIDIA Nemotron Coalition, Cursor will contribute real-world performance requirements and evaluation datasets to improve the quality and reliability of the base models for developers.”
“With over 100 million monthly downloads of LangChain’s frameworks, we’ve seen that frontier models must go beyond raw intelligence to enable reliable tool use, long-horizon reasoning and agent coordination,” said Harrison Chase, cofounder and CEO of LangChain. “Through the NVIDIA Nemotron Coalition, we will build the best agent harness for these models, rigorously evaluate their capabilities and provide comprehensive observability into agent behavior — helping make Nemotron models the best foundation for the next generation of AI agents.”
“Open frontier models are how AI becomes a true platform,” said Arthur Mensch, cofounder and CEO of Mistral AI. “Together with NVIDIA, we will take a leading role in training and advancing frontier models at scale. By shaping the capabilities of these systems from the ground up, we can help establish a global foundation for AI that empowers developers to build the next generation of applications.”
“The value of AI is measured by how effectively it helps people find and use knowledge,” said Aravind Srinivas, cofounder and CEO of Perplexity. “Open models make AI more accessible at scale, giving builders the flexibility to improve performance, reduce costs and push AI applications into everyday use. Through the NVIDIA Nemotron Coalition, Perplexity will contribute our frontier model development expertise to build foundations for AI platforms that work for millions of users.”