The companies have aligned incentives so I don't think this is a terrible acquisition for customers.

rileymat2 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Vertically integrated monopolies naturally have aligned in incentives for themselves, which allows more capture which turns out bad for customers. Whether it is a monopoly is an open question.

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lotsofpulp an hour ago | parent | next [-]

>Vertically integrated monopolies naturally have aligned in incentives for themselves, which allows more capture which turns out bad for customers.

Apple's devices have resulted in a great increase in quality of life for myself and family members who used to waste a lot of time with Windows drivers/BSODs/random updates/malware/etc.

It's been almost 20 years, and it's turned out OK.

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vmg12 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This isn't vertical integration. This is a commoditize your complements play and that does benefit customers. Nvidia benefits from supporting the open model ecosystem, if models are a commodity the gpus become what's scarce.

	▲	tehbeard 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Someone with financial / decision making weight their is going to ask why they are commoditizing models that run on "others" GPUs .... Since doing that makes their gpus less of the scarce resource..

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ErrorNoBrain 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

of course it is

works fine for now

whats nvidia gonna do except make it worse?

usually buyouts go something like this:

1 buy company

2 fire various people

3 enshittify

hugging face even said they didnt want to accept a 500 million dollar investment from nvidia, because they didnt want nvidia to run the ship.

instead they sell it... guess who'll run the ship?

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/24/hugging-face-reportedly-in...