Nvidia is happy to take your money whether you're using open or closed models, says Jensen Huang

Nvidia doesn't seem to care whether open or closed models win out as long as its hardware is powering the infrastructure.

"We love closed models," CEO Jensen Huang said. "There's a solid place in the world for closed frontier models. But the world has so many good ideas … The idea that all of us would be based on general intelligence is not logical."

Speaking with Lin Qiao, CEO and founder of Fireworks.ai, at the company's Forge event in San Francisco on Tuesday, Huang wasn't ready to throw Nvidia's cloud customers, which help deliver the proprietary AI of Anthropic and OpenAI, under the onrushing open model bus.

But having come to the defense of open weight models in July to push back against protectionist pressure from the leadership of Anthropic and OpenAI, Huang recognizes the economic and strategic appeal of AI services that are more affordable and less locked-in.

Most of the value in the world, he said, is captured …