Yet another Hacker News

Nvidia discusses $2k-per-GPU annual fee for software

15 points gscott 1 hour ago 9 comments

verdverm 1 hour ago | parent

buy the hardware and pay rent, even better /s

Kevin_Flynn 1 hour ago | parent

At what point do market forces take over, and give Nvidia the collective middle finger ?

Couldn't customer #1 just have AI reverse engineer, clean room recode, and open source publish it, because its software ?

It's all in how your attorneys define "clean room" now isn't it ?

georgemcbay 1 hour ago | parent

> Couldn't customer #1 just have AI reverse engineer, clean room recode, and open source publish it, because its software ?

Probably.

But... Nvidia is currently close enough to a monopoly in this space, and our antitrust enforcement is so weak/nearly-non-existent, that I suspect that anyone who either did this or used the software that resulted from it would be blacklisted by Nvidia and never get another Nvidia GPU.

So (unfortunately) chances are very good anyone in a position to do this will just shut up and pay the rent.

j45 1 hour ago | parent

Folks over time do build their own, or alternative tools.

In the model space the open source efforts have been not disappointing at all.

TazeTSchnitzel 1 hour ago | parent

What software is this? A value-add nobody uses, or a core CUDA component everyone is stuck with?

mrlonglong 1 hour ago | parent

Time for a Linus Torvalds middle finger.

j45 1 hour ago | parent

First it was licensing per cpu, now gpu?

cyanydeez 25 minutes ago | parent

Someone put up a ishuggingfacedead.com death watch and just post articles like this until it's obvious.

throwaway919233 22 minutes ago | parent

Surprised its not based on wattage