Nvidia bulks up open source offerings with an acquisition and new open AI models

Nvidia continues to expand its footprint in open source AI on two fronts: an acquisition and a new model release. The semiconductor giant announced Monday it acquired SchedMD, the leading developer of popular open source workload management system Slurm . Nvidia said the company will continue to operate the program, which is designed for high-performance computing and AI, as an open source, vendor.