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The open AI infrastructure stack is now a single-vendor vertical
◆ 90RelevanceOn a story from The New Stack1mo ago
Nvidia owning the industry’s central model repository creates a vertically integrated stack from silicon to software distribution. You must decide if the convenience of their ecosystem outweighs the risk of optimization bias against competing hardware providers.
Takeaways
- Nvidia now controls the primary distribution point for open-source model weights.
- Watch for "Nvidia-first" optimizations that could marginalize AMD or Intel performance.
- Evaluate self-hosting critical models to mitigate platform risk from a single vendor.
Read the original at thenewstack.io
“Hugging Face will remain an open platform”: Nvidia strikes $12.9B deal for the ‘GitHub of AI’
fmode.me/n/hugging-face-will-remain-an-open-platform-nvidia-strikes-129b-deal-for-the-github-of-ai
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