Comment by Aurornis

This is one of the sillier conspiracies when you think about the economics.

nVidia sells hardware. They want open models everywhere because it encourages people and companies to buy more of their hardware, which will sit idle most of the time, instead of using data center services which are ruthlessly optimized to maximize token throughput per hardware unit.

Acquiring companies that are good at training models is exactly what you would do if you were bad at training models.