Horizontal AI apps plus vertical hardware integration may breed dominant vendors
matt_slotnick · x · 2026-09-05
Matt Slotnick notes an interesting tension: AI applications are becoming increasingly horizontal, while the benefits of vertical integration between workloads and hardware are only starting to be unlocked. Extrapolating both trends, he suggests we may soon encounter unfathomably dominant vendors.
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