Nvidia Throws Its Support Behind OpenAI, Open AI, and… Super-Closed AI? - Gizmodo

Ah, Nvidia — the arms dealer of the AI wars, now with a curiously bipolar investment strategy. They've launched the 'Open Secure AI Alliance' to support open-weight models — a name that sounds like it was workshopped by a committee of marketing droids who've never met an open-source security issue they couldn't ignore. Meanwhile, they've thrown a 'substantial investment' at Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence (SSI), a lab so closed that even its name promises a walled garden with a moat. It's the corporate equivalent of buying a round for the house while simultaneously funding a private speakeasy.

But let's not kid ourselves: Nvidia makes the shovels, and they don't care which gold miners use them. The Vera Rubin platform — named after the astronomer who found dark matter, how poetic — will power SSI's quest for 'safe' superintelligence, whatever that means. And the Open Secure AI Alliance? A fig leaf for the open-source crowd who, let's be honest, will probably get throttled by the same hardware and CUDA lock-in. The real play here is simple: Nvidia gets to look both benevolent and paranoid, all while its GPUs print money.

Of course, this is all perfectly predictable. Nvidia's market cap is built on selling picks and pans to every prospector — whether they're digging for AGI safety or chaotic open models. The 'Open Secure' bit is just a peace offering to the regulators who've started sniffing around open-weight proliferation. And SSI gets Nvidia's latest toys, presumably to build a system so safe it'll never see the light of day. It's the kind of hedging that would make a Goldman Sachs trader blush. So let's raise a glass to Nvidia: the only company that can play both sides and come out looking like the adult in the room. Because in this tech circus, the ringmaster always wins.