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> Nvidia has a strong interest in open source

Linus would heavily disagree!

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He said 2 years ago they are okay nowadays (they were not in the past).

source: https://diginomica.com/kubecon-china-33-and-third-linux-long...

But he also says why, so he knows as soon as Linux isn't useful for Nvidias revenue anymore they will be gone

All the big boy AI stuff runs on servers, which certainly aren't going to be running on Windows or Mac anytime soon. Linux _is_ what all this NVIDIA hardware is going to run on until... what exactly? FreeBSD overtakes Linux in the server space?

Who knows what i sthe next big thing after AI. Maybe something that doesn't need Linux?

And I'm not so sure that Mac is out of the equation

> Who knows what i sthe next big thing after AI. Maybe something that doesn't need Linux?

And Nvidia hardware was running on Linux before AI as well...

> And I'm not so sure that Mac is out of the equation

Mac servers exist but anyone serious about running at scale isn't using them for a number of reasons, not least of which is that Apple simply doesn't make real servers anymore...

> Apple simply doesn't make real servers anymore...

That could change.

Who says they don’t switch to hardware manufacturing for AI servers

They have the money they have the capability design and engineering in house and they are vertical. The question is whether or not they have the will, one thing that might help them come to a decision is that they now have an engineer CEO from the Apple Silicon, part of the company and not a bean counter.

Can we at least let the early days of AI play out before we try to guess then next big thing? ChatGPT isn't even half a decade old.

The half-life is becoming shorter partially due to AI

Disingenuous quote. Missing the full “open source AI” phrasing.

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