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Conviction

Plausible AI Schemes 2026-01-15

Elevator Pitch

Nvidia dominance in AI chip market limits competition and supply options. Build alternative chip solutions including TPUs, reconfigurable architectures, and latency-optimized inference hardware.

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The Problem

The AI industry has a single point of failure: Nvidia. Their GPUs power the vast majority of AI training and inference, creating:

  • Supply constraints: Not enough chips to meet demand
  • Pricing power: Nvidia can charge premium prices
  • Strategic risk: Entire AI industry dependent on one company
  • Architecture lock-in: Everything optimized for Nvidia's approach

The Opportunity

Build alternative chip solutions:

  • Custom TPUs: Application-specific chips optimized for particular workloads
  • Reconfigurable architectures: FPGAs and other flexible hardware
  • Inference optimization: Chips designed specifically for low-latency inference
  • Edge deployment: Hardware for running AI at the edge, not in datacenters

Why Now

  • AI demand is growing faster than Nvidia can supply
  • Customers are actively seeking alternatives
  • New architectures may be better for specific AI workloads
  • Scale economics are increasingly viable for alternatives

The Prize

The company that breaks Nvidia's dominance captures enormous value—not by being as good at everything, but by being better at something.

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