Oh Great, Nvidia Wants *More* Control.

Right, so apparently Jensen Huang isn’t content with just owning the GPU market and basically printing money. This TechCrunch piece details how Nvidia’s been throwing cash at a whole heap of AI startups – like, a lot of cash. We’re talking over $7 billion since 2018. Because naturally.

They’ve got their grubby little hands in everything from core model developers (like CoreWeave and Lambda) to data infrastructure clowns (Run:AI, obviously), robotics (Figure AI – because Skynet wasn’t scary enough the first time) and even some weird stuff like generative biology. Basically, if it involves silicon and vaguely resembles intelligence, Nvidia wants a piece of it.

The article points out this isn’t just “investment,” it’s about building an ecosystem – a Nvidia-centric ecosystem where everything runs on their hardware and they get to control the whole damn pipeline. Shocking, I know. They’re even pushing these startups to use their software stack (NeMo) because surprise, surprise, vendor lock-in is *always* the goal.

They’ve been pretty smart about it too, mostly taking minority stakes so they don’t have to deal with actual management headaches. Let other people worry about running the companies while Nvidia rakes in the profits from selling them the tools. It’s a beautiful, cynical plan, honestly.

And of course, there’s talk of IPOs and acquisitions down the line. Because why *wouldn’t* they want to consolidate even more power? It’s all just…ugh. Just another example of how one company is trying to become the AI overlord. Don’t say I didn’t warn you when your toaster demands a monthly subscription fee to Nvidia.

Seriously, read it if you want to feel even more helpless about the future. Don’t blame me for ruining your day.

Source: TechCrunch – Nvidia’s AI Empire

Speaking of ecosystems, I once had to debug a network issue where the entire thing was built on a stack of open-source software held together with duct tape and wishful thinking. The guy who designed it thought “agile development” meant “no documentation.” Took me three days, seventeen cups of coffee, and a healthy dose of profanity just to figure out why the DNS server kept crashing. That’s what happens when you let amateurs build critical infrastructure. Nvidia is just doing that on a much larger scale, but with *intention*.

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