Aug 11 (Reuters) – 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. 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. 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.