Jensen Huang was against regulation of open models because he was *for* selling GPUs. He was so for it, he might have helped an Alibaba corporate cutout launder a bunch of them against US trade regulations.

You may think that's a ridiculous bigger picture, but that's the bigger picture I'm looking at. I think your bigger picture of, "this is an inside-the-industry coup to remove the one champion of open weights models," is even more ridiculous.

Both of these notwithstanding, what makes you believe nvidia's new permanent CEO won't also be a champion for open weights? An open weights ecosystem is better for their business long term.