Nvidia Has Redefined "Open Source AI" — and Most People Haven't Noticed Yet

The announcement of is the kind of number that settles arguments before they start. At GTC 2026, Jensen Huang did not describe this as a bet on altruism — he described it as an ecosystem position. The precise formulation matters: open and proprietary are not opposites, they are complements. That framing serves Nvidia perfectly because it allows the company to claim alignment with every community simultaneously while the hardware stack underneath remains theirs alone.