2 hours ago
Everyone is making better software than NVIDIA today with AI, to the extent they are un-nerfing hardware and making stuff run 2x faster. Why would anyone in their sane mind pay NVIDIA anything when they can vibe engineer a faster library?
an hour ago
because NVIDIA can force them
4 hours ago
What software is this? A value-add nobody uses, or a core CUDA component everyone is stuck with?
4 hours ago
At what point do market forces take over, and give Nvidia the collective middle finger ?
Couldn't customer #1 just have AI reverse engineer, clean room recode, and open source publish it, because its software ?
It's all in how your attorneys define "clean room" now isn't it ?
2 hours ago
> At what point do market forces take over, and give Nvidia the collective middle finger ?
I haven't bought an Nvidia gpu since the 980. /shrug
4 hours ago
> Couldn't customer #1 just have AI reverse engineer, clean room recode, and open source publish it, because its software ?
Probably.
But... Nvidia is currently close enough to a monopoly in this space, and our antitrust enforcement is so weak/nearly-non-existent, that I suspect that anyone who either did this or used the software that resulted from it would be blacklisted by Nvidia and never get another Nvidia GPU.
So (unfortunately) chances are very good anyone in a position to do this will just shut up and pay the rent.
4 hours ago
Folks over time do build their own, or alternative tools.
In the model space the open source efforts have been not disappointing at all.
3 hours ago
Apple dropped them for a reason...
3 hours ago
Surprised its not based on wattage
4 hours ago
Time for a Linus Torvalds middle finger.
2 hours ago
Lmao! Sorry AI companies, even if you somehow survive to profitability, daddy Nvidia will just decide you have to pay rent in perpetuity. 99% margin on chips isn’t enough.
3 hours ago
Someone put up a ishuggingfacedead.com death watch and just post articles like this until it's obvious.
41 minutes ago
One thing I've noticed is a lot more HF assets require personal information collection to download. Not sure if that's new corporate compliance or an attempt to manage bandwidth (or a marketing channel).
4 hours ago
First it was licensing per cpu, now gpu?
5 hours ago
buy the hardware and pay rent, even better /s