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AMD gets re-rated as the credible second source for AI compute: MI400 ramps on a 6GW OpenAI deal while code-portability tools let labs spend billions escaping a single vendor's pricing power.

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And so today the AI chip market is starting to look much less monopolistic. AI coding agents can make it easier to write software that works on non-CUDA chip stacks, and the teams behind competing chips have plenty of resources and economic incentives to bring performance in line with NVIDIA. Even if it's going to be a big hassle, even if you're going to just spin up a team to get AMD or TPU working, it's going to be worth it because you're talking about billions and billions of dollars spent on chips.
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