As Meta fades in open-source AI, Nvidia senses its chance to lead

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ZDNET key takeaways 

• Nvidia's Nemotron 3 claims advances in accuracy and cost efficiency.
• Reports suggest Meta is leaning away from open-source technology.
• Nvidia argues it's more open than Meta with data transparency.

Seizing upon a shift in the field of open-source artificial intelligence, chip giant Nvidia, whose processors dominate AI, has unveiled the third generation of its Nemotron family of open-source large language models.

The new Nemotron 3 family scales the technology from what had been one-billion-parameter and 340-billion-parameter models, the number of neural weights, to three new models, ranging from 30 billion for Nano, 100 billion for Super, and 500 billion for Ultra. 

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The Nano model, available now on the HuggingFace code hosting platform, increases the throughput in tokens ...