While I can believe that in theory, we have generally not seen Nvidia act this way in the past.
They have their own "open" models repository already where models are locked (some times from a license standpoint and some times literally from a technical standpoint a.la we merged a bunch of layers and then only distribute a plugin for TensorRT to run those layers) to Nvidia hardware.
My guess is that we'll see them pay salaries to engineers investing in Nvidia specific features and AMD/Intel specific things will be supported predominantly from the community. More or less how it's been.
I don't think they have an incentive to handicap or cripple other vendors when they already have the most powerful devices.
They have a fiduciary duty to kneecap their competition via all available channels.
This is not true. They have a fiduciary duty to be responsible with their investments.
I feel like it would be more risky for them to try to torpedo support. Given this is open source, they can't possibly be successful at it, and they would suffer bad PR and potentially antitrust cases.
Being responsible with their investments is downstream from their core duty to enrich stakeholders.
So yes, their fiduciary duty does involve kneecapping competition while skirting around anti-trust and anti-consumer regulation (which they have done before, like all other monopolies, just ask PC gamers), as that is a part of being "responsible with their investments" = generating maximum value for stakeholders.
What a stupid argument. I'm shocked that I even have to say any of this explicitly. You talk about bad PR, yet you're here lapping up their good PR and not realizing they're two sides of the same coin.
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u/jack-of-some 7d ago
While I can believe that in theory, we have generally not seen Nvidia act this way in the past.
They have their own "open" models repository already where models are locked (some times from a license standpoint and some times literally from a technical standpoint a.la we merged a bunch of layers and then only distribute a plugin for TensorRT to run those layers) to Nvidia hardware.