Teaching Everyone to Fish for Tokens
Interconnects 2 months ago 49
Nvidia’s investments in nearly open-source language models are framed as an effort to make the open-weight “token machines” ecosystem self-sustaining rather than dependent on closed competitors. Nvidia is reported to be spending $26 billion on this approach. Open models may either become more dependent on Nvidia’s financing or fork toward more efficiency and enterprise-specialized long-tail use, while revenue-share licensing and reduced interest in training full base models shape the ecosystem.