[kcexn]

How will open-source and open-weight models continue to thrive after financial incentives die off? Surely open models will suffer from outdated knowledge cutoffs if noone will pay for model training?

[geophile]

Nvidia will pay for training models that they can give away to consumers who will then buy their GPUs.

[ColdStream]

Pretty much. Nvidia has always been pretty decent at giving away software that is deeply dependent on their hardware.