Ask HN: Why doesn't Nvidia hoard GPUs and create their own foundational model?
They are printing money selling shovels to goldminers, but any blacksmith could make a shovel if shovel co. stopped selling. Whereas if Nvidia stopped providing GPUs its far more difficult to source replacements, spelling doom for its customers.
OpenAI etc would have a far harder time finding or developing a new source of GPUs than Nvidia would have poaching ~50 researchers that could bring it to model performance parity.
With all the GPUs going forward, Nvidia would have the best model and be market dominant over Claude Chatgpt etc. Wouldn't a certain shot at being the "winner of AI" be a better outcome long term than being a highly compensated enabler?