Microsoft and NVIDIA Going Hard on Local AI as a Defense Against Frontier Labs
MatthewBerman · x · 2026-10-09
Matthew Berman observes that Microsoft and NVIDIA are investing heavily in local AI. If they can make the experience simple, he argues, it's a smart defensive play against frontier labs by keeping inference on users' own devices.
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