"All their competition has to do" is quite the assumption, when in fact CUDA and drivers is a very significant portion of the work NVIDIA does. NVIDIA is winnin

"All their competition has to do" is quite the assumption, when in fact CUDA and drivers is a very significant portion of the work NVIDIA does. NVIDIA is winning because of their software work, this is where they've added the most value to their product. NVIDIA can compete on hardware, but the reason AI/ML is where it is today rests largely on the investment in software NVIDIA has done in the last 20 years enabling these kinds of things. Everyone could be using the open source alternatives, but they're not because the OSS isn't as good because... nobody paid for it. I'm all for open source, you should be able to run whatever you want on your NVIDIA card (and you can, no walled gardens there), but it doesn't go as far as insisting that if someone wrote software it should be free.