Opportunity for startups at the innovation margins
The relative case argued that while incumbents like NVIDIA dominate the core market, massive scale creates opportunities for startups to innovate at the margins on metrics like tokens per watt or per dollar.
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The discussion presented a relative case: while custom silicon from cloud giants (Google, Amazon, Meta) is emerging, NVIDIA has a massive ecosystem headstart, making it the safer near-term bet for scaling AI compute.
The relative case argued that while incumbents like NVIDIA dominate the core market, massive scale creates opportunities for startups to innovate at the margins on metrics like tokens per watt or per dollar.