# NVIDIA engineer Chris Alexiuk teaches developers to build with open models

> Original title: The Wizard of Open Weights: Chris Alexiuk Makes AI Easy With Open Models

- Source: NVIDIA Blog
- Published: 2026-11-05T16:00:05.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/lkfs7swuwpsehhncrcabsp7a3
- Original: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-life-chris-alexiuk/

## Summary

Chris Alexiuk, a senior product research engineer in deep learning at NVIDIA, teaches developers on YouTube how to build, fine-tune, evaluate and ship production LLM applications and agents. He says open models should include the weights, training data and training recipes, and he calls NVIDIA Nemotron the most important open project. Alexiuk says Nemotron has models for both individual developers and enterprises running long-running autonomous agents.