Amazing that anyone in 2026 still can believe in "don't be evil" marketing from multibillion dollar corporations.
replyThe proof is in the pudding though. I'm judging based on their actions, not on their words. They're making AI models and AI research widely accessible, including selling consumer grade hardware to run them locally, and to use open-weight models. They could have just gone all in on selling to Anthropic, OpenAI, and all the other big tech companies, but they aren't. Meanwhile, Anthropic is trying to price people out of the market, increasing their restrictions, cutting the latest model from subscription plans, etc.
replyYeah but Claude has a cream white background, intelligent font, and fun hand drawn graphics cues... Anthropic must be pure
replyNvidia and "open source" is like opposite things. Nvidia only ever opened stuff that helps their bottom line or improve vendor lock-in.
replyBut yeah they are good shovel seller and competitor to actually evil companies that literally wants to eat all the world chips and energy supply.
Strongly disagree: https://build.nvidia.com/models
replyTheir license terms are also incredibly generous and allow commercial use, modification, etc, at no cost.
How soon do you think this generosity end if AMD or Intel or some chinese competitor would be able to provide price competetive hardware?
replyIn the open source space, the Nemotron models from nVidia are quite real. Including a Nemotron Ultra variety meant to be large enough for near-SOTA.
replyNvidia not doing it out of goodness of their hearts and love to open source. If at anynpoint their CUDA vendor lock-in moat will faik because Intel or AMD manage to get working software they'll return to keep everything locked and proprietary ASAP.
replyBasically everything Nvidia does in open source is there to make sure their proprietary stack have a good moat and no competitor stack can catch up.
That's not really the impression I get from Anthropic, but if you have the links to back it up, I'm always willing to change my mind.
replyCompared to bizes like Oracle, Microsoft, or Facebook, I felt that Anthropic was more interested in progress (not to the neglect of business―AI training is expensive at the end of the day), but maybe I've just not seen what you've seen.
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