The Future Of AI Is Open And Proprietary
NVIDIA, March 25,2026
AI leaders - including the CEOs of Mistral, Perplexity, Cursor, Reflection AI and Thinking Machines Lab - agree that open model efforts are beneficial for innovation across the AI ecosystem.
AI is the defining technology of our time, quickly becoming core business infrastructure. It's fueled by a diverse ecosystem of models: large and small, open and proprietary, generalist and specialist.
This variety is essential for a future where every application will be powered by AI, every country will build it and every company will use it. And it's not a debate between open versus closed innovation.
As NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang told attendees at a special session on open frontier models at NVIDIA GTC, 'Proprietary versus open is not a thing. It's proprietary and open.'