NVIDIA allegedly funded AI startups to buy its GPUs, engineering scarcity
dr1337 · x · 2026-11-14
TechPowerUp reports that NVIDIA allegedly engineered GPU scarcity by funding AI startups that then used the money to buy its own chips (unverified claim). If true, part of NVIDIA's demand would be a self-reinforcing loop, with major implications for how real AI compute demand actually is.
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