Nvidia has released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an open-source model that the company claims is "lightweight" and can run on a single GPU on a laptop or desktop.
This is Nvidia's first open-source model since CEO Jensen Huang vocally favored that approach last month.
"Free AI should be great for hardware. Free AI should be great for chips," Huang said in an interview in July.
The new Nemotron offering is free for companies to download, use, and modify without needing permission or paying Nvidia.
This model was developed particularly for agents, or AI programs that can run autonomously in the background.
Nvidia also released software called NeMo Switchyard that can determine the cheapest and most appropriate AI model for any given task.
