“Nvidia's pricing power rests on being the only viable option for AI training, but Anthropic just proved that isn't true anymore. Five generations of frontier Claude models were trained on Google's chips, not Nvidia's, at roughly half the cost. An expanding list of labs is said to be lining up for TPUs, which chips away at the monopoly premium that justifies Nvidia's valuation.”
“Google TPUs continue to gain market share outside of internal Google workloads, giving frontier AI labs a viable alternative for training.”
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