H company joins Nvidia’s international coalition dedicated to open-source AI models

H Company, the French startup specializing in agentic AI, has joined Nvidia’s Nemotron coalition. The announcement was made during Nvidia’s GTC conference in Taipei, Taiwan, placing the company alongside some of the world’s leading players in artificial intelligence.

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Launched by Nvidia in March, the Nemotron initiative aims to pool expertise, computing resources, and data sources to accelerate the development of next-generation open-source foundation models. The international coalition brings together a core group of software and AI companies, including Black Forest Labs, Cursor, LangChain, Mistral AI, Perplexity, Reflection AI, Sarvam, and Thinking Machines Lab.

This prestigious roster has now been expanded to include H Company. The startup’s team of around 100 employees will gain access to valuable additional computing resources shared across the coalition, among other benefits.

Gautier Cloix, the company’s CEO, emphasized the international dimension of the initiative:

“It is essential for French companies to actively participate in the international ecosystems where the future of artificial intelligence is being built. This collaboration with the other coalition members will enable us to accelerate our work on open models and contribute to a more innovative, high-performing, and accessible AI ecosystem.”

“Computer-Use”: Agents That Operate Digital Interfaces

Founded in Paris in 2023, H Company focuses on “computer-use” AI, a segment the startup describes as “a new generation of artificial intelligence systems capable of executing complex tasks and autonomously interacting with digital environments.”

In other words, the company is developing AI systems that can not only generate text but also directly perform actions within web browsers and software applications across desktop and mobile environments.

The company recently launched Holo3.1, the latest version of its flagship model, which was first released in March of this year. At the same time, it introduced Holotab, a Google Chrome extension aimed at mainstream users.

Designed to operate digital environments, this specialized computer-use model stands out for its strong benchmark performance while maintaining lower operating costs than general-purpose AI models.

$220 Million Raised in 2024

Founded in 2023, H Company raised $220 million the following year. The startup subsequently experienced significant leadership turnover, with three of its five co-founders leaving the company. In June 2025, during VivaTech, CEO Charles Kantor also announced his departure.

Since then, the company has been led by Gautier Cloix, the former CEO of Palantir France.

Its investor base includes Accel, Eric Schmidt, Amazon, LVMH, Xavier Niel, Samsung, and UiPath, among others.