Nvidia is developing a new AI model family, Nemotron 4, ​with the goal of ​rivaling top open-source models globally, The Information reported on ​Tuesday, citing people who work on the project.

The chip giant is among the few major US firms to release open-source models, which have drawn more attention ‌this year ⁠as ⁠AI bills balloon and cheap Chinese models near the capabilities of top systems from ​leading American labs Anthropic and OpenAI.

A spate of recently disclosed hacks involving autonomous AI agents has added to the attention, especially because open models do not have curbs on cybersecurity use.

The largest Nemotron 4 model ​is expected to have at least 1 ⁠trillion parameters, ‌according to multiple employees working on the project, ​The Information ​reported.

Nvidia has not set a release date for Nemotron ⁠4 and has yet to complete final training, ​though employees said the model could be ready as ​early as late fall, according to the report.

The company did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment on the report.

Nvidia last month formed a coalition with other companies to develop and share tools for AI safety and cybersecurity. It also signed ‌an open letter with tech heavyweights such as Microsoft backing open-weight models so that innovation does not drift ​overseas.

Separately on ​Tuesday, the chip ⁠firm unveiled Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an addition to its offerings aimed at code review, tool use, security alert monitoring, answering billing questions and other ​tasks.

It also released NeMo Switchyard, an open-source model-routing library designed to automatically direct AI tasks to the most suitable models.

Late last year, the chip giant unveiled the third generation of its family of open-source models as offerings from Chinese AI labs proliferated.