Nvidia is planning to launch an open-source platform for AI agents, people familiar with the company’s plans tell WIRED. The chipmaker has been pitching the product, referred to as NemoClaw, to enterprise software companies, allowing them to dispatch AI agents to perform tasks for their own workforces.
The move comes as Nvidia prepares for its annual developer conference in San Jose next week, where the company is expected to reveal more details about the platform. Ahead of the conference, Nvidia has reached out to companies including Salesforce, Cisco, Google, Adobe, and CrowdStrike to forge partnerships for the agent platform.
Inside the Platform
NemoClaw will allow companies to access the platform regardless of whether their products run on Nvidia’s chips, sources say. The platform will also offer security and privacy tools, addressing concerns around the use of AI agents in enterprise environments.
Nvidia’s interest in agents comes as people are embracing “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 that they’re supposed to automatically improve over time.
The Infrastructure Question
The usage of claws within enterprise environments is controversial, with some tech companies, including Meta, asking employees to refrain from using OpenClaw on their work computers due to security concerns. Nvidia’s NemoClaw appears to be part of an effort to court enterprise software companies by offering additional layers of security for AI agents.
Nvidia’s software strategy until now has been heavily reliant on its CUDA platform, a famously proprietary system that locks developers into building software for Nvidia’s GPUs. The move to open-source AI models, including NemoClaw, is part of a broader strategy to maintain its dominance in AI infrastructure.
Regulatory Pressure Builds
Last month, The Wall Street Journal reported that Nvidia also plans to reveal a new chip system for inference computing at its developer conference. The system will incorporate a chip designed by the startup Groq, which Nvidia entered into a multibillion-dollar licensing agreement with late last year.
Nvidia did not respond to a request for comment, and representatives from Cisco, Google, Adobe, and CrowdStrike also did not respond to requests for comment. Salesforce did not provide a statement prior to publication.
