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Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by reddmachine on Friday November 13, 2026 @11:10PM (#50493815)
To be fair their Nemotron models are pretty good. The Parakeet speech-to-text model is also pretty good. That being said these pale in comparison to the frontier labs. They should've invested more into it, but I understand that they don't want to piss off their biggest competitors.
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Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by reddmachine on Friday November 13, 2026 @11:38PM (#50493997)
* they don't want to piss off their biggest customers.

:D

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Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by georgeburdell on Saturday November 14, 2026 @01:31AM (#50494580)
A friend of mine works on Nemotron. He stated quite plainly that they intentionally don't push the boundaries for the reason you state. It's similar to when companies create reference designs that show off the features of their real product, like Google and their Pixel phones
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Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by reddmachine on Saturday November 14, 2026 @02:31PM (#50500009)
That's what I thought as well. One step behind by design.
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Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by InsidiousWombat on Saturday November 14, 2026 @08:36AM (#50496924)
What would investing in the models give them ? They already are selling chips at massive markup.

Investing in tooling so more people get on their stuff is direct return, but having yet another AI model is of little value aside from being a test bed for their AI tooling

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