Speaking at GTC Berlin on Oct 22, Huang said "it's about $2,000 per GPU per year to run all the software that Nvidia provides that runs agents on these AI factories." He gave it as an example of how licensing will become "increasingly a major part" of Nvidia's business. The Register and a video of the comments cited by Tom's Hardware report it. Nvidia hasn't said which software is covered, when it would start, or how it relates to NVIDIA AI Enterprise, which NVIDIA's licensing guide lists at $4,500 per GPU for a one-year subscription.
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A unit of Authentic Brands Group, ABG EPE IP LLC, and seven other Elvis Presley rights holders sued Anthropic on Oct. 23 in the Northern District of California (No. 5:26-cv-12473). They allege Claude was trained on lyrics to 274 Presley compositions, including "Can't Help Falling in Love," "All Shook Up" and "A Little Less Conversation," without a license, and that it still produces infringing lyrics and rewrites despite guardrails. They plead copyright infringement plus DMCA circumvention and copyright-management-information removal and seek up to $41.1M in statutory damages (about $48.6M with the DMCA claims) plus an injunction. Anthropic did not immediately respond to Billboard's request for comment, and the allegations are unproven.
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