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NVDA directional thesis

The 80% margins are a target on NVIDIA's back, every AI lab now has billions of reasons to make rival chips work and break the CUDA lock-in.

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“But recently, the biggest cost center for AI labs flipped from researcher time, more or less, to compute capacity. And this creates a much larger economic incentive to figure out a way to drive down the cost of chips used to train AI models.”
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