Nvidia discusses $2k-per-GPU annual fee for software

Everyone is making better software than NVIDIA today with AI, to the extent they are un-nerfing hardware and making stuff run 2x faster. Why would anyone in their sane mind pay NVIDIA anything when they can vibe engineer a faster library?

What software is this? A value-add nobody uses, or a core CUDA component everyone is stuck with?

At what point do market forces take over, and give Nvidia the collective middle finger ?

Couldn't customer #1 just have AI reverse engineer, clean room recode, and open source publish it, because its software ?

It's all in how your attorneys define "clean room" now isn't it ?

Apple dropped them for a reason...

Lmao! Sorry AI companies, even if you somehow survive to profitability, daddy Nvidia will just decide you have to pay rent in perpetuity. 99% margin on chips isn’t enough.

Surprised its not based on wattage

Time for a Linus Torvalds middle finger.

Someone put up a ishuggingfacedead.com death watch and just post articles like this until it's obvious.

First it was licensing per cpu, now gpu?

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buy the hardware and pay rent, even better /s