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ddxv • yesterday at 2:19 PM • 8 replies • view on HN

Just a sad state of affairs. Jensen was by far the biggest voice pushing for open weights and keeping the Anthropic / OpenAI doom narrative from getting out of control.

Now without him there will be a vacuum for the ideologies of Dario / Elon / Sam to fill the void.


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DaSHacka • yesterday at 3:29 PM

Only because it benefits NVIDIA to have more potential customers in the shovel market to mine gold individually versus consolidating within a few providers (where the backend tooling becomes irrelevant to the consumers, and OpenAI & Co could freely change GPU manufacturers on a whim or move things in-house).

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mahboi • yesterday at 11:07 PM

Open weights might simply be what benefits Nvidia the most. Guess we'll see what his replacement says.

hackmack10 • yesterday at 6:58 PM

They should be taken down next.

NiloCK • yesterday at 11:04 PM

Perspective is a hell of a thing.

I've consistently seen Jensen as a transparently self-interested shovel salesman while we dig our own mass grave.

For a person in his position, he has been exceedingly slow to wake up to the prospect of AGI - he seemed genuinely surprised by arguments from informed layperson Ezra Klein, for example, like he'd never even heard of it before.

xyst • yesterday at 7:36 PM

Don’t worry. They are next.

CGMthrowaway • yesterday at 10:11 PM

This is exactly why he was taken out. They waited until after the midterms and then dropped the news

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rapsey • yesterday at 2:29 PM

Which is why he got railroaded.

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