Nvidia plans to launch an open source platform for AI agents, people familiar with the company’s plans told WIRED.
The chipmaker introduced the product, called NemoClaw, to enterprise software companies. The platform will allow these companies to send AI agents to perform tasks for their own staff. Companies will be able to access the platform whether or not their products run on Nvidia chips, according to sources.
The move comes as Nvidia prepares for its annual developers conference in San Jose next week. Ahead of the conference, Nvidia reached out to companies including Salesforce, Cisco, Google, Adobe and CrowdStrike to form partnerships for the agent platform. It is unclear whether these conversations resulted in formal partnerships. Since the platform is open source, it is likely that partners will get free, early access in exchange for contributing to the project, according to sources. Nvidia plans to offer security and privacy tools as part of this new open source agent platform.
Nvidia did not respond to a request for comment. Representatives for Cisco, Google, Adobe and CrowdStrike also did not respond to requests for comment. Salesforce did not provide a statement prior to publication.
Nvidia’s interest in agents comes as people adopt “claws,” or open-source AI tools that run locally on a user’s machine and perform sequential tasks. Claws are often described as self-learning, in the sense that they are meant to improve automatically over time. Earlier this year, an AI agent known as Open Claw— which was first called Clawdbot, then Moltbot — captivated Silicon Valley because of its ability to run autonomously on personal computers and complete work tasks for users. OpenAI ended up acquiring the project and hiring the creator behind it.
OpenAI and Anthropic have made significant improvements to model reliability in recent years, but their chatbots still require getting started. Specially designed AI agents or claws, on the other hand, are designed to perform multiple steps without as much human supervision.
The use of claws in corporate environments is controversial. WIRED previously reported that some tech companies, including Meta, had asked employees to refrain to use OpenClaw on their work computers, due to agent unpredictability and potential security risks. Last month, a Meta employee who oversees the security and alignment of the company’s AI lab publicly shared a story about an AI agent going malicious on his machine and mass deleting his emails.
For Nvidia, NemoClaw appears to be part of an effort to court enterprise software companies by offering additional layers of security to AI agents. It is also another step in the development of the company adoption of open source AI modelswhich is part of a broader strategy to maintain its dominance in AI infrastructure at a time when major AI labs are building their own custom chips. Until now, Nvidia’s software strategy has relied heavily on its CUDA platform, a famously proprietary system that requires developers to create software for Nvidia’s GPUs and has created a crucial “moat” for the company.
Last month, the Wall Street Journal reported that Nvidia also plans to unveil a new system of chips for inference computing at its developers conference. The system will integrate a chip designed by startup Groq, with which Nvidia struck a multibillion-dollar licensing deal late last year.
Paresh Dave and Maxwell Zeff contributed to this report.
