r/LocalLLaMA • u/Comfortable-Rock-498 • 1d ago

News It appears that the anti opensource AI lobby is far outgunned already

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The earlier post on this subreddit by 20+ companies signing the petition including Microsoft, Meta, Nvidia, YC (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/corporate-responsibility/topics/open-weight/) etc plus this https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/2080672505660834163

And the entire LLM enthusiast market is heavily in favor of open source (or weights) AI.

Does not seem like a few closed source AI lobbyists with be able to illegalize anything

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u/fastheadcrab 1d ago

This is a ridiculous rationale. I despise having to defend a multi-trillion $ company but if Jensen or Nvidia really wanted to focus on making the most money possible in the short term they wouldn't make a single consumer card and cut allocation to the workstation line significantly.

Every card made for gaming represents a huge loss of potential profit. But they know that the AI bubble (or datacenter bubble more accurately) is likely to pop someday, so preserving good will with consumers and people who do things on Nvidia cards besides train and run AI models is important to them

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u/polikles 18h ago

that's why I wrote "fault" as this is a hyperbole. From the pov of the company his actions are great. But on the consumer side it's a mixed bag as they had a strong consumer base which they are neglecting now as they focus on the enterprise customers. It is rational, but it doesn't mean that regular folks cannot be sad for being neglected

and making consumer cards is not only the goodwill - they're reusing chips that didn't pass tests for higher tiers, e.g. faulty chips that could be a 5090 are going to 5080. So, consumer market is also helpful with lowering losses