They Bought the House. The Models Copied Themselves Out.
Today’s news: a chip giant bought the home of open models for 17.5 trillion won. The hub is literally the house where models live together, and open models are the ones anyone can download and use for free. A new owner means a new family for every model inside, except open source has a well-known habit of copying itself and moving out the moment it is owned. In the comic, our four-year-old leader commands the whole move-out.
Source: 엔비디아, 허깅페이스 17.5조원에 인수…개방형 AI허브 계열화 · bespin
▶ Animated edition: the characters speak for themselves (Korean audio, English subtitles included)
What this means for ThakiCloud
The takeaway is that what ‘open’ is worth always comes down to who owns the house. ThakiCloud’s answer is sovereign on-prem: model, data and infrastructure all run inside the customer’s own facility, so there is nobody to sell the house to, no rent to pay, and no news that can reach you. The Paxis agent platform runs a daily swarm check on whether the stack is still open, while the Metis learning and inference platform keeps reasoning on the customer’s own GPUs. This post is being written the same way, with the Jarvis orchestrator calling agents from both.
An auto-generated comic riffing on this week’s industry news.