[chii]

> Well deserved in my mind.

not if this moat could be leveraged into a monopoly on AI chips, to the detriment of society.

I want to see competition in this space.

Unfortunately, the market rally of nvidia stock is suggesting that most investors are expecting this monopoly to eventuate.

Therefore, it is in the interest of society to ensure that such a software moat is not established. Look what happened to the web browser when microsoft held a monopoly on it, and look at what is happening with chrome, apple appstore, etc.

[anon291]

> Look what happened to the web browser when microsoft held a monopoly on it, and look at what is happening with chrome, apple appstore, etc.

Realistically what happened is that after a few decades of development, competitors arose and took the market. In the meantime, Microsoft became rich. Who cares

[chii]

> Who cares

those who didnt own microsoft stock, but uses the internet, care.

[anon291]

Meh... It was fixed in a few years. Faster and more productively.

[andsoitis]

if the prize is big enough, there will rise others.

[chii]

so why isn't there a windows competitor today for the consumer PC market? Surely it's a bigger market than ai chips.

The answer is that the entrenchment of the tools, software and inertia of a defacto standard is what prevents new entrants. The time to stop it is to nip it in the bud. Prevent monopoly from forming, rather than hope that after the monopoly forms, some competitor will break it.

[dcgudeman]

What do you suggest? Kneecap the most competent company executing in AI hardware to help laggards compete?

[chii]

nobody is kneecapping anyone. The ask is to change CUDA into a standard for which nvidia is one implementation.

instead, what you have today is this:

> You may not reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any portion of the output generated using SDK elements for the purpose of translating such output artifacts to target a non-NVIDIA platform.

from https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/eula/index.html#limitations section 8