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Nvidia's backing of Western open models may be hard to replace

Axios calls Nvidia the most enthusiastic funder and champion of the Western open-model ecosystem, whose offerings give developers cheaper alternatives to frontier AI companies. Its involvement takes several forms: a pending acquisition of Hugging Face, a licensing agreement with Poolside, backing for Reflection, and development of its Nemotron family of open models. The bigger question is whether the U.S. can develop open-weight alternatives to China's models without Nvidia. Axios says that remains unclear, especially because such systems are often free to download and have no clear, easy route to financial returns.

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