alt Hacker NewsFundamentally I always try to look at incentives. It's not that they are good or bad but that incentives favour certain behaviours.
Google is incentivised to collect a bunch of data (like FB) to improve their ad serving etc. Apple does not have that incentive as they don't make as much off advertising as hardware / app revenue.
NVIDIA is friendly with open source as they want to commoditise the model layer and take the gains in the hardware / data center layer.
I am trying to think what the incentive is here.
- Juicing community discovery of new useful AI features they can incorporate into their own apps
- Juicing demand for AI workloads for which they can lease out Meta data centers to establish themselves in the infrastructure as a service space
- Preventing extreme capital concentration at any single competitor
- Fostering a market of small innovative companies they can then acquire