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The open-source ecosystem will become increasingly dependent on Nvidia's financing, and within a few years the profits from this approach need to return to Nvidia, or another company needs to cultivate platform-like financial feedback loops.

The open-source AI ecosystem is increasingly dependent on Nvidia's financing, and must prove economic viability within a few years or risk collapse. ✦ AI generated

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The open-source ecosystem will become increasingly dependent on Nvidia's financing in the coming years. This is an existential window, where within a few years the profits of this approach need to return to them, or another open model company needs to cultivate platform-like financial feedback loops on their openness. This economic reward needs to be proportional to the profits generated by Anthropic and OpenAI's APIs to keep pace over decades of language model development.

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Nvidia wants a world where countless people can build token machines so intelligence is not monopolized, which creates massive demand for inference across many companies – all buying Nvidia's offerings.Interconnects AI · Interconnects · conf 60%

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gives example → Open-weight AI models need economic incentives and funding mechanisms to be sustainable, because unlike classic open-source software you cannot train a frontier model through donated volunteer time — it requires millions or billions of dollars of compute.Matt Bournestein · a16z Podcast