Nvidia announced that 145 papers cited its Nemotron open models at ICML 2026. Proprietary labs continue pushing frontier model capabilities forward simultaneously.
CEO Jensen Huang argued the future combines proprietary and open approaches rather than choosing one side.
The session features Nader Khalil, who leads open source and local AI at Nvidia. He previously co-founded Brev.dev, an infrastructure company acquired by Nvidia in July 2024.
Sydney Sykes brings the venture ecosystem perspective as Global Head of VC Partnerships. They will examine what developers need versus what investors look for in startups.
Nvidia launched the Nemotron 3 Super open model with 120 billion parameters in March. Companies are already combining it with proprietary models instead of treating them as opposites.
