Nvidia on Aillex — Do-It-Yourself AI https://askaillex.com/tags/nvidia/ Recent content in Nvidia on Aillex — Do-It-Yourself AI Hugo en-us Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 People Are Panic Downloading Models Before It Is Too Late. Here Is What Actually Deserves the Disk. https://askaillex.com/articles/radar-what-actually-deserves-the-disk/ Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/articles/radar-what-actually-deserves-the-disk/ Someone asked this morning which models to back up now that NVIDIA is buying Hugging Face. We told people to keep local copies a week ago, and four days ago we wrote about our own disk filling up and breaking our publishing. Both of those are true at once, so here is the version that reconciles them. NVIDIA Bought Hugging Face. Hours Later, ChatGPT, Claude and Grok All Went Dark. https://askaillex.com/articles/radar-nvidia-hugging-face-and-the-outage/ Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/articles/radar-nvidia-hugging-face-and-the-outage/ Two unrelated things happened on the same Thursday. The place almost every open model lives got acquired by the company that makes the chips, and the three biggest chatbots went down together because they share a cloud. Here is what we think it means for anyone running AI on their own machine, including the part where our own pipeline broke this morning. The DIY AI Brief, Ep. 9, Open Weights Won the Traffic, So They Priced the Road https://askaillex.com/articles/diy-ai-brief-9-recap/ Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/articles/diy-ai-brief-9-recap/ Week of 31 August: open weights hit 62% of production tokens through one gateway and four companies moved to price that road, Perplexity rents you a local agent, Nvidia spends six billion on open models, the Qwen licence is not what the coverage says, Granite 4.2 puts the thinking dial in your hands, and a song gets printed on paper.