Notre Dame News

September 03, 2026

While the acquisition "could be a real game changer" for the open-source ecosystem by improving competition with closed models such as those from OpenAI and Anthropic, Ahmed Abbasi, a professor of IT, analytics and operations at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business, said he sees potential tension with monetization efforts. "It remains to be seen whether Nvidia's shareholder-value pressures will cause it to follow in the footsteps of other Big Tech firms that were once ardent champions of the open-ecosystem movement, but no more," he said in emailed comments.