> i wish govt would fund these labs and make it free and opensource.
It would be impossible for the govt to allocate this much capital towards such a moonshot, and even if they could, they would do it in a way that would get 90% frittered away to fraud and waste
I have excellent news for you. Lux @ ORNL and Equinox @ Argonne are to be completed by EOY, with Solstice (100k NVIDIA chips, currently spec'd to be Vera Rubins) in the next five years.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/11/laun...
What makes you so sure? There's been massively successful government funded and run projects before. Soviets beat the Americans to space, after all.