alt Hacker NewsOnly 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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No he did it because he was such a good guy!!!!
Wait, so you're telling me that NVIDIA has a profit incentive to bolster the AI market to be full of competitors and not turn it into a monopoly?
And that as a byproduct we profit by not living under an Anthropic quasi-religious doom cult monopoly, with open access to competing models?
It's almost as if the competing self-interest that drives the invisible hand of the market is a positive force for value creation in the world.
Yep, it's kind of the old "if you owe the bank $100, it's your problem. If you owe $100M, it's the bank's problem." NVIDIA would love to diversify its customer base.