[Abrownn]

Its what things like Bard and ChatGPT and BLOOM are all based off of. You need GPUs to load the weights into memory of to run them (typically).

[brokenmachine]

Thanks.

Why would Nvidia want to prevent someone from doing it though (I guess they have a competing product?), and why should any consumer accept being prevented from doing it on hardware they've purchased? Is that even legal?

[Abrownn]

To get a cut of the compute-cake. See: Nvidia LHR GPUs

[brokenmachine]

Nvidia! Fuck you!