Market share in paid AI, a US-China clash over imitation, and the wall of power consumption — three axes that decide AI's direction all moved on the same day.
The hardware beneath AI and the agentic hands that let AI act both moved forward on the same day, even as a leading CEO questioned the very idea of "picking the best model.
Build your own chip and you escape NVIDIA's monopoly — or so the roadmap says. Six months later, that same roadmap stalls on a single name: TSMC. Competitive advantage is decided by who controls the lowest layer, the one with no substitute.