ByteDance, Alibaba, Tencent reportedly order over $35B of Nvidia chips

A post on r/LocalLLaMA claims ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent placed over $35 billion in Nvidia chip orders, citing roughly 3 million RTX 5500 Pro cards at $11.4 each for LLM inference and AI video generation. The claim comes from a forum post and is unconfirmed.

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