SaaS value shifts: Revenues flow to model labs and ultimately to NVIDIA
airesearch12 · x · 2026-08-20
A viral observation suggests a shift in the SaaS value chain: customers are canceling subscriptions to rebuild software internally. The remaining capital is moving to AI model labs, which in turn pass most of their earnings to NVIDIA for compute costs.
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