NVIDIA Run:ai open source
NVIDIA released the full Run:ai GPU orchestration platform as open source under Apache 2.0, as part of the NVIDIA DSX AI Factory platform.
Run:ai was previously a paid platform, and platform teams can now inspect, fork and self-host it for free. The release has four components that can be adopted separately: KAI Scheduler, GPU Fractioning Operator, KAI Resource Management and Workload Map. It runs on Kubernetes or OpenShift clusters with NVIDIA GPUs and has a web UI, CLI, REST API and an MCP server.
- Date
- Tuesday 13 October 2026
- Lab
- NVIDIA
- Kind
- product
- Access
- open weights
Figures
| Measure | Value | Measured by |
|---|---|---|
| DSX ecosystem partners integrating | 8 Crusoe, Mirantis, Nebius, OpenNebula Systems, Rafay, Saturn Cloud, Spectro Cloud, vCluster | company |
This is open source code rather than model weights. MarkTechPost says the free edition excludes NVIDIA enterprise support. NVIDIA's blog says KAI Scheduler is Apache 2.0 and a CNCF Sandbox project.
Sources
- developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-runai-is-now-open-source-as-part-of-nvidia-dsx-ai-factory
- marktechpost.com/2026/10/18/nvidia-runai-open-source-gpu-orchestration-kubernetes/?amp
This record was partly confirmed: some claims could not be checked on 19 October 2026. How we check