The open source community just lost one of its strongest advocates. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigned Thursday after he admitted to an affair with an alleged Chinese spy, raising concerns about U.S. national security and the motives behind the executive’s support for softer chip export controls on China. Huang has been a staunch supporter of open source AI, framing the ecosystem as good for safety, innovation, diffusion, and sovereignty. And as frontier AI labs increasingly move to reduce their reliance on Nvidia and build their own chips, supporting open source is also a good way for the company to diversify its customer base by selling chips to nation-states, enterprises, and any organization that wants to own its own models.
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