Jensen puts his thumb on the scales against open-weights fearmongering

UPDATED Nvidia has made a fortune on the AI boom. But the flames of opposition to open-weights models — that is, models that anyone can download, modify, and run on their own infrastructure — could change that, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang isn’t waiting to find out. On Friday, a cadre of tech titans wrote an open letter [PDF] …

[_wojtek]

shovels...

NVIDIA sell shovels and doesn't care who and how uses them as long as people keep buying more shovels...

(and if promoting open modes would bring the Usania AI bubble to a laud pop then promoting open models is even better!)

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

Re: shovels...

Specifically the people likely to run open models on-prem will buy shovels while the hyperscalers are building steam shovels in-house

[Groo The Wanderer - A Canuck]

Damned would-be billionaires and billionaires. May they all die a slow and painful death as soon as possible...

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

Hey I'm a would-be billionaire. Or at least I would be if I had another billion dollars

[Erik Beall]

I'm waiting (not enthusiastically but more resignedly) for anthropic and openai to offer a closed "review my codebase/full stack system for vulnerabilities and produce one or more specs that their sub-mythos models can work on to make it all better" product for all and sundry. They'll probably have to use something like what certbot uses to assure ownership (control over DNS records, etc), which isn't super secure but they'll probably have to soon enough. Oh, and of course it'll cost a lot and it might not (mild shock) work of you then try to use a competitor's models to work on said spec...

[ecofeco]

Much squabbling

But super thinking machine still can't figure out how to make a profit from itself?

And people just ignore this?

[IGotOut]

Well if the Big 7 are against it...

...it must be good

What's that Jensen? Nvidia's stock price is on a downward trajectory...oh dear, what a shame, never mind.