NVIDIA's OpenShell is open source.
Resolved true The record shows it happened or was so.
Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?
Said for an organisation they lead or work for; it counts on both records.
What would count as true or false
Judged as of 2026-06-01. TRUE: by that date, NVIDIA OpenShell source code was publicly available under an open-source license (OSI-approved, such as Apache 2.0 or MIT), for example in a public GitHub repository. MOSTLY TRUE: the core is released under an open-source license, but some components are proprietary or under a non-OSI license. MOSTLY FALSE: it had only been announced as going open source, or its code is source-available under a restrictive non-open-source license. FALSE: OpenShell is proprietary, with no public source code.
Set before the research began.
Evidence (4)
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E1 GitHub - NVIDIA/OpenShell: OpenShell is the safe, private runtime for autonomous AI agents. GitHub · 24 February 2026
“This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.”
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E2 Nvidia mulls $2,000 per GPU enterprise software license: Report Economic Times · 28 October 2026
“The company unveiled a reference architecture based on the OpenShell open-source runtime software at the German event. While much of Nvidia's software is open, proprietary components will be offered via enterprise licensing, Huang told press outlets.”
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E3 License | NVIDIA OpenShell NVIDIA (docs.nvidia.com) · 1 January 2026 Own record
“NVIDIA OpenShell is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.”
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E4 Run Autonomous, Self-Evolving Agents More Safely with NVIDIA OpenShell | NVIDIA Technical Blog NVIDIA Technical Blog · 16 March 2026 Own record
“Based on Apache 2.0, OpenShell sits between your agent and your infrastructure.”
Reasoning
NVIDIA's public GitHub repository for OpenShell, dated 2026-02-24, says the project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0, which is an OSI-approved license (E1). NVIDIA's own documentation and technical blog say the same (E3, E4). A later Economic Times report also calls OpenShell open-source runtime software. It says some of Nvidia's wider software will be proprietary, but it does not say any part of OpenShell is (E2).
Cite this claim
Jensen Huang, “NVIDIA's OpenShell is open source.” (said 1 June 2026). Verdict: resolved true. Reliability API, claim c_9868eb30cbf4, method 0.1.0+03d23c0e, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_9868eb30cbf4
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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