alt Hacker NewsReally disappointing to read the comments on HN
None of them are able to put two and two together that this was a deliberate coup
And it seems like nobody is paying attention to what Jensen Huang was fighting for. He was against regulation of open source local models. He was against regulation shifting liability of local model developers as well as frontier models.
All in all without Jensen, it isn't just about NVIDIA, there's no one to champion for open source models and running them locally is going to get a lot harder and expensive. It's actually going to accelerate the monopolization of closed models and they will have to pass on the costs to consumers.
It's an L across the board and I'm noting the degraded quality of discourse on HN and that nobody is seeing through the veil here.
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Agreed. People are too eager to signal moral outrage to actually see the bigger picture.
For what its worth, Hugging Face is still going to push hard on our mission of open, local models
Jensen Huang was against regulation of open models because he was *for* selling GPUs. He was so for it, he might have helped an Alibaba corporate cutout launder a bunch of them against US trade regulations.
You may think that's a ridiculous bigger picture, but that's the bigger picture I'm looking at. I think your bigger picture of, "this is an inside-the-industry coup to remove the one champion of open weights models," is even more ridiculous.
Both of these notwithstanding, what makes you believe nvidia's new permanent CEO won't also be a champion for open weights? An open weights ecosystem is better for their business long term.