Nvidia is being praised for years of open-weight support as Microsoft softens on openness
niloofar_mire · x · 2026-07-26
A quoted exchange argues that Nvidia’s Nemotron team has done strong open-weight model work for years and that Nvidia has been a major supporter of open-source efforts across frontier AI.
The thread also reacts to Satya Nadella’s view that open models can be useful, while pointing out the irony of companies that were once strongly anti-open source now embracing openness.
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