Anticompetitive? Nobody showed up to compete. Nvidia has been developing Cuda and AI tools for many years. AMD and Intel ignored the market segment because it was a niche market for so long.

The people selling the shovels made more money than the miners during the gold rush. It’s the same thing here. If you want to do AI at any sort of scale, Nvidia is really your only choice because AMD and Intel sat on their hands for so long.

From my understanding, those days are in the past. I can’t speak to that from experience because I only recently got into HA.

Nah, just get one that can integrate with Home Assistant.

It’s closer to Slack, but Rocket Chat is another option.