Jensen Huang gains 176K followers in under two hours as NVIDIA’s open-source pitch lands
0xSammy · x · 2026-07-24
Jensen Huang’s profile reportedly added 176K followers in under two hours, which the post calls an “attention vacuum.”
The author also argues that NVIDIA has a strong incentive to push an open-source narrative: by avoiding a small-customer model and encouraging a broader ecosystem, NVIDIA can potentially turn a handful of GPU buyers into millions of customers through software and platform reach.
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