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Lemkin: Open-source AI models will bypass Nvidia's CUDA platform
“He's got to go frontier and open and open is dangerous. Open doesn't need CUDA. Open is cheaper and it's lower margins. Open will bypass him, but he's got it.”
In AI Inference, Nobody Cares About Nvidia's CUDA or PyTorch
“In inference, the truth is, nobody cares about CUDA. Nobody even cares about PyTorch. All right. What they want is an API.”
Ross: NVIDIA's software moat applies to training, not inference
“That NVIDIA's software is a moat. Yeah it's true for training, but it's not true for inference.”
Mohan: CUDA is not Nvidia's real competitive moat
“Even a company like NVIDIA, I think everyone outside looking in is like, CUDA is the real moat. Or something like that. I think that's just inaccurate, right?”
Rory O'Driscoll: Nvidia customers will not abandon CUDA due to switching costs
“For most users, because they have such dominance, such validation of the CUDA software layer, for most customers, it's going to be too much brain debt to switch from the cheap, you know, the GPU you know and love to something new, right? Because there's probab…”