Nvidia announced it has taken over AI software company SchedMD, as the chipmaker intensifies its focus on open-source technology and boosts investments in the artificial intelligence sector to combat increasing competition.

The chip manufacturer established its reputation for fast chips, but it additionally provides various AI models, including physics simulations and autonomous vehicles, as open-source software available for researchers and companies.

Its exclusive CUDA software, a benchmark for many developers, serves as a significant selling factor for its chips, positioning software as essential for sustaining its leadership in the AI sector.

SchedMD offers software designed for scheduling substantial computing tasks that can utilize a significant portion of a data center's server resources.

The technology, known as Slurm, is open source, allowing developers and companies to use it at no cost, while the firm provides engineering and maintenance support for a fee.

The financial details of the agreement were not revealed. Nvidia announced that it would keep providing SchedMD's software as open-source.

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Nvidia states, "Slurm, compatible with the newest Nvidia hardware, is essential for generative AI infrastructure, utilized by foundation model developers and AI creators to oversee model training and inference requirements."

Nvidia revealed a new range of open-source AI models that it claims will be more efficient, cost-effective, and intelligent than its earlier versions, amid increasing competition from rival open-source models developed by Chinese AI laboratories.

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SchedMD was established in 2010 by Slurm software creators Morris "Moe" Jette and Danny Auble in Livermore, California, and the firm currently has 40 employees, as stated on its website.

Its clients include the cloud infrastructure company CoreWeave and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, among others.

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NVIDIA is a prominent American technology firm, established in 1993, well-known for being the first to develop the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), which transformed PC gaming and computer graphics, and now fuels the contemporary AI age, data centers, professional visualization, and automotive sectors with its advanced computing platforms, fostering advancements from scientific studies to industrial digitalization.