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AI builder xlr8harder warns of NVIDIA lock-in due to the lack of an open training stack at scale

Florian Brand counters that NVIDIA benefits from open models

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xlr8harder@xlr8harder#1855inTech

@natolambert My real remaining complaint is the lack of a fully open competitive stack trained at scale, but NVIDIA is providing a very large fraction of what I would want here now.

Still, I'd rather not depend exclusively on them.

Nathan Lambert@natolambert

@xlr8harder At this point people need to just read my 2026 backlog.

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xlr8harder@xlr8harder

@xeophon @natolambert I definitely expect they will continue to create and fund strong open source models.

Florian Brand@xeophon

@xlr8harder @natolambert NVIDIA has a vested interest in good open models, so we’ll see

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Florian Brand@xeophon

@xlr8harder @natolambert NVIDIA has a vested interest in good open models, so we’ll see

xlr8harder@xlr8harder

@natolambert My real remaining complaint is the lack of a fully open competitive stack trained at scale, but NVIDIA is providing a very large fraction of what I would want here now.

Still, I'd rather not depend exclusively on them.

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