Venture capitalist Jason Calacanis argued that Nvidia Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA) is moving beyond its role as the world’s leading AI chipmaker and is positioning itself to compete more directly with companies like OpenAI and Anthropic through its growing portfolio of open-weight AI models.



<h2>Jason Calacanis Says Nvidia Is Expanding Beyond Chips With Nemotron</h2>



Last week, during an episode of the All-In Podcast, venture capitalist Calacanis said Nvidia is preparing to “own the whole stack” by pairing its dominant AI hardware business with increasingly capable open-weight large language models.



“Nvidia is taking the gloves off with its open source model. They will own the whole stack,” Calacanis said.



He predicted that Nvidia’s open-weight models could become good enough for many everyday AI use cases, adding, “You will not be able to tell the difference between Jensen Huang’s open source LLM and Claude for 95% of your searches, I guarantee you.”



Calacanis also suggested Nvidia had previously kept its AI model ambitions relatively quiet because some of its largest customers, including OpenAI and Anthropic, were developing frontier models using Nvidia’s chips.



“His top customers … were very concerned, from what I understand, about the fact that Nvidia had made so much progress on their open source model,” he said.



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<h2>Why Calacanis Believes Nvidia Is ‘Taking The Gloves Off’</h2>



According to Calacanis, the competitive landscape has shifted as major AI developers pursue alternatives to Nvidia’s ecosystem, citing OpenAI’s reported custom AI chip efforts, Anthropic’s chip partnerships, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.’s (NASDAQ:AMD) growing AI presence and Elon Musk’s push to build more of xAI’s infrastructure in-house.



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<blockquote>J-Cal: Nvidia is taking the gloves off with its open source model. They will own the whole stack. &#34;You will not be able to tell the difference between Jensen Huang's open source LLM and Claude for 95% of your searches, I guarantee you. Now, why has Nvidia and Jensen downplayed… pic.twitter.com/3ksYuUIwVO— The All-In Podcast (@theallinpod) July 5, 2026</blockquote>
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Nvidia has been investing heavily in its Nemotron family of open-weight models, which are designed for enterprise applications including reasoning, retrieval-augmented generation and multimodal AI.



Last month, Nvidia and Palantir Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:PLTR) announced a partnership to deploy Nemotron-powered AI systems in sovereign and classified environments.



This allows government agencies and critical infrastructure operators to train and run AI models while retaining control over sensitive data and intellectual property.



Price Action: Nvidia shares closed 1.39% lower at $194.83 on Thursday and edged up 0.09% to $195.00 in Monday’s premarket trading, according to Benzinga Pro.



According to Benzinga Edge Rankings, Nvidia scores in the 98th percentile for Growth, reflecting strong long-term performance despite weakness over the short and medium term.



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Venture capitalist Jason Calacanis predicts Nvidia is 'taking the gloves off' with its Nemotron open-weight models, aiming to own the entire AI stack and challenge OpenAI and Anthropic. He claims Nvidia's LLMs will rival Claude for most use cases. This strategic shift follows competitors developing alternative chips. Nvidia recently partnered with Palantir for sovereign AI deployments.

- Venture capitalist Jason Calacanis stated that Nvidia is expanding beyond being just an AI chipmaker by developing open-weight AI models to compete with companies like OpenAI and Anthropic.  
- He suggested that Nvidia's new models could be strong enough for common AI applications, claiming users may not notice differences between Nvidia's models and those of its competitors.  
- Calacanis noted that Nvidia's previous reticence about its AI ambitions was likely due to concerns from major customers who relied on its chips for developing their own models.

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Jason Calacanis Says Nvidia Is 'Taking the Gloves Off' With Nemotron, Predicts Jensen Huang Will Challenge OpenAI, Anthropic by Owning the Whole AI Stack