Nvidia is getting into the artificial intelligence agents game with the release of a software platform that helps businesses build their own autonomous bots. The platform, called NeMo microservices, is available for all customers to use to build their “AI teammates,” the chip maker said Wednesday. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company said it has developed a better way of building AI agents that relies on open-source AI models like those provided by Meta Platforms and the startup Mistral AI. Nvidia is betting on open-source, or open-weight, AI technologies because they tend to offer businesses more flexibility and control than proprietary models. Popular proprietary models are offered by vendors like OpenAI and Anthropic. AI models that are open-weight share the numerical parameters, or “weights,” that underlie them. That flexibility is critical for enterprises with a lot of confidential data but still want to use agents, said Joey Conway, a senior director of generative AI software for enterprise at Nvidia. “We wanted to focus on places where enterprises need the full control of open-weight models,” Conway said. “And we don’t see much of the market moving there.”

Full story : The chip giant’s agent-building platform relies on open-source models like those from Meta Platforms and Mistral.