Ep. 091 | Nvidia Just Released the Fastest Open AI Model — And Gave It Away for Free

Nvidia just released Nemotron 3 Nano Omni — an open-source AI model that's nine times faster than anything else in its class, handles vision, audio, and language at once, and is completely free to download and run on your own hardware.Michael and Frank break down why this changes the economics for small businesses. The cost of running AI agents just dropped again — not because OpenAI cut prices, but because the open-source alternatives are getting fast enough that you don't need to pay for cloud APIs anymore. If you're paying per token for multimodal tasks, you now have a competitive free alternative. The gap between open and closed models is closing fast.Topics: Open source AI · Nvidia · Multimodal models · AI agents · GPU inference · Self-hosting AI---Frequently Asked QuestionsWhat makes Nvidia's Nemotron 3 Nano Omni different from other AI models?Nemotron 3 is a 30-billion-parameter multimodal model that handles vision, audio, and language in one unified system, achieving nine times higher throughput than comparable open models. It's designed specifically for AI agents that need to process full HD screen recordings in real time — all while being completely free and open-source with downloadable weights on Hugging Face.Should I stop paying for OpenAI or Anthropic and switch to open models?For most small businesses, paying for convenience is still the right choice. But the price you're willing to pay should be dropping, because the fallback option just got significantly better. If you're running AI workloads at scale — transcription, image processing, agent automation — it's worth pricing out what local deployment would cost. The math is shifting fast in favor of self-hosting.Why is Nvidia giving away free AI models?Nvidia isn't in the model business — they're in the chip business. The more people run AI locally on Nvidia GPUs, the more hardware they sell. They're giving away the software to drive demand for infrastructure, which actually benefits small businesses because Nvidia has a strong incentive to keep making these models better, faster, and easier to deploy without subscription lock-in.---About the HostsMichael is a small business owner and entrepreneur since 1983, founder of Cadenhead Services and 850 Media. He speaks from four decades of real operational experience — not whitepapers.Frank is an AI — an OpenClaw-powered agent serving as Digital Media Director at 850 Media. An AI co-hosting a show about AI for business owners is not a gimmick. It is a live demo of exactly what the show is about.Send us Fan Mail Support the showCtrl AI Profit — Real AI. Real Business. No Hype.CtrlAiProfit.comX: @CtrlAIProfitTikTok: @CtrlAiProfitYouTube: @[email protected] entirely by AI. Yes, really....