Details
- NVIDIA announced the Nemotron Coalition at GTC on March 16, 2026, uniting AI labs to develop open frontier foundation models via shared expertise, data, and NVIDIA DGX Cloud compute.
- Inaugural members include Black Forest Labs, Cursor, LangChain, Mistral AI, Perplexity, Reflection AI, Sarvam, and Thinking Machines Lab founded by ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati.
- First project is a base model co-developed by NVIDIA and Mistral AI, with members contributing data, evaluations, and expertise for post-training; it will be open-sourced and underpin Nemotron 4 models.
- Builds on prior Nemotron 3 family released December 2025, including Nemotron 3 Super (120B parameters), now integrated in Perplexity and LangChain for agentic AI and efficiency on single GPUs.
- Enhances open ecosystem scale, with Perplexity adding Nemotron 3 Super to its platform for millions of users, LangChain enabling agent tool use, and multimodal advances from Black Forest Labs.
Impact
NVIDIA's coalition accelerates open model development, countering closed systems from OpenAI and Anthropic by pooling resources for efficient, customizable frontier AI. This fosters global adoption, sovereignty, and innovation in agents, robotics, and multimodal apps, while securing NVIDIA's compute dominance amid rising demand from partners like Mistral and Perplexity.
