NVIDIA

Open source software is a critical pillar of the global economy. It underpins cloud computing, financial services, manufacturing, telecommunications, government, and internet services by making technology accessible and observable to communities of experts. Cybersecurity is among the top three beneficiaries of open source software.

AI is one of the most powerful forces shaping the world today. It is not a clever app or a single model; it is essential infrastructure, like electricity and the internet. AI runs on real hardware, real energy, and real economics. It takes raw materials and converts them into intelligence at scale. Every company will use it. Every country will build it. To understand why AI is unfolding this way, it helps to reason from first principles and look at what has fundamentally changed in computing.