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eitallytoday at 3:35 AM1 replyview on HN

Maybe, but GPU is just one aspect of NVIDIA's dominance. If you are buying Vera Rubin GPUs, you're getting an NVL72 rack, which is only one of several racks that you're probably buying. You'll also need your NVIDIA racks with NVIDIA networking & storage gear, too. At the end of the day, they're "vertically integrated" for your accelerated computing data center (e.g. the "AI Factory"). This doesn't even count the software layer, where CUDA + CUDA-X (not to mention the software for all the sysadmin pieces) has a huge first mover advantage over anyone else.


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zarzavattoday at 4:19 AM

Is CUDA still a moat? Are we not at the point where frontier models can reimplement software stacks, given you throw enough tokens at the problem.

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