Nader Khalil🍊

Director of Developer Tech @ NVIDIA, Co-founder/CEO acquired by NVIDIA • I laugh til I cry it's not the same on zoom •YC W20 | UCSB • views are my own

[Nader Khalil🍊 @NaderLikeLadder]

Exciting news...

🚨 https://t.co/GCUjRDOu73 has been acquired by NVIDIA! ❤️🤙

We started Brev with the goal of building the best damn developer experience possible.

We’ve been working closely with NVIDIA since August, and we couldn't be more excited to team up.

I'm infinitely grateful for our early users, investors, and team that supported us thus far. So excited for what's coming 🤙

[Nader Khalil🍊 @NaderLikeLadder]

@dannypostma ❤️🙏

[Nader Khalil🍊 @NaderLikeLadder]

@josephofiowa @ycombinator @bradflora thats epic. the industry is lucky to have you. always paying it forward!

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

The entire tech industry (save for Anthropic) has come out in favor of open source AI.

So what happens next? Will Anthropic change its lobbying efforts? Not likely. Now the gaslighting begins:

“Nobody is trying to ban open source.”

“We just want to limit who can use it.”

“We just want to limit who can contribute to it.”

“We just want to limit how powerful those models can be.”

“We just want to make sure the guardrails (we lobbied for) can’t be removed.”

The net effect will be the same. They won’t stop until they kneecap open source. The rest of the industry needs to watch these guys like a hawk.

[Nick Dorsey @Midnight_Captl]

NVIDIA is *by far* the largest contributor to @huggingface (the central hub for open source software) in the world. Since ~Jan 26’ the gap between them and the 2nd largest contributor (Alibaba) has completely blown out as you can see in the chart

@Mononofu - FYI

Data via https://t.co/vgXESULswe

[Alec Fong @alecqfong]

Ran 100 million tokens through GLM 5.2 NVFP4 locally

Electricity cost: $1.

Inference is becoming nearly free

[Nader Khalil🍊 @NaderLikeLadder]

@alecqfong Great point. Software comes with a perspective

[Joseph Nelson @josephofiowa]

even dennys supports open source and you’re bearish?

[Nader Khalil🍊 @NaderLikeLadder]

@AndrewMayne 🤣🤣🤣

[Nader Khalil🍊 @NaderLikeLadder]

Hahahahahaha even dennys has signed the letter!!!!

Imagine being a company against open source and pancakes

[Denny’s @DennysDiner]

@JensenHuang @nvidia

[Matthew Berman @MatthewBerman]

Denny’s gets it

[Baxate @Baxate]

i like my eggs scrambled, my coffee black, and my weights open

[Bilal Zuberi // Red Glass Ventures @bznotes]

🤗

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

Nobody is saying that all software has to be open source. What they’re saying is that open-weight AI should be allowed. By implication, they’re rejecting your company’s incessant machinations to kneecap the open model ecosystem. Read the room.

[Nader Khalil🍊 @NaderLikeLadder]

@djabatt Hmm, I actually agree with you, but then a place like San Francisco abuses that when real estate prices 30x and land owners don’t want more housing supply

[Nader Khalil🍊 @NaderLikeLadder]

Make property tax reflect current property values and watch a generational scramble to build new homes

Making SF only accessible to millionaires is insane

[Sebastian Caliri @SebastianCaliri]

They pay nearly no property tax because of Prop 13, while you pay for their healthcare + other benefits you'll never enjoy.

Build the damn houses over Marina Safeway. Younger people in SF need a shot at family formation that doesn't hinge on getting liquid from OAI / Anthropic.

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

Very happy to support this on behalf of Google. We have long benefited from open source, are big contributors to open source and in fact have consistently made open weights models with Gemma available from @GoogleDeepMind @demishassabis . Onwards!

[Nader Khalil🍊 @NaderLikeLadder]

Almost everyone in the industry wants to protect open source!

Almost!

[tae kim @firstadopter]

OpenAI tells me they signed the Nvidia–Microsoft open-source/open-weights AI model letter today.

What an amazing turn of events. Your move, Anthropic!

[Nader Khalil🍊 @NaderLikeLadder]

Gaussian splats still feel early.

They're so insanely cool and used in things like autonomous vehicles yet still feels like capabilities are well beyond the products available

There's a livestream about them in a few days if anyone's interested
https://t.co/xsN069sY6l

[Bilal Zuberi // Red Glass Ventures @bznotes]

Love to see it.