Nvidia controversy costs the US its strongest open-source AI advocate, founder warns
keerthanpg · x · 2026-11-12
keerthanpg argues the saddest consequence of the Nvidia controversy is that America loses its strongest advocate for open-source AI. Since nearly all American AI startups fine-tune open-source models and Nvidia funded most US open-source AI efforts, he says this will raise the barrier to frontier AI research and hurt the whole industry long term.
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