Nvidia’s Open Source Alliance Snubs OpenAI and Anthropic

This week on Uncanny Valley, we discuss the open vs. closed source debate in AI, key players in White House AI policy, and how to stop your chatbot logs from showing up in search engine results.

6 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Jul 30, 2026 09:57 AM IST FILE — Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s chief executive, speaks during a keynote address at an Nvidia conference in San Jose, March 16, 2026. (Manuel Orbegozo/The New York Times) A week after OpenAI announced that two of its most capable AI agents had hacked a repository belo

The chipmaking giant is in talks with OpenAI to provide a $250 billion financial backstop for the project, which would be among the largest of the A.I. boom.

Nvidia’s backing of the data center project – which could cost $500 billion – would allow the SoftBank-owned developer to raise debt at more favorable terms than it could if OpenAI had no financial backer.