AI startup Mistral announced a new partnership with NVIDIA on Tuesday, in which both companies will work on developing open frontier models, as per an official press release.
The collaboration is part of a larger coalition in which multiple companies are working to develop new open-source technologies. Officially called the NVIDIA Nemotron Coalition, it is now the latest effort to develop the latest iteration of the Nemotron family of models, following the release of the Nemotron 3.
“Open frontier models are how AI becomes a true platform,” said Mistral’s CEO, Arthur Mensch.
“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 following companies are included in NVIDIA’s Nemotron Coalition:
- Black Forest Labs
- Cursor
- LangChain
- Mistral AI
- Perplexity
- Reflection AI
- Sarvam
- Thinking Machines Lab
Open-frontier models are considered large AI-systems which companies can use to develop their own AI models. They are open-source, which makes them accessible to everyone and are considered an alternative to developing proprietary models, which often require more compute, such as select versions by OpenAI, Claude, xAI, and Google.
“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 NVIDIA’s CEO Jensen Huang in an earlier company announcement on Monday.
“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.”