Nvidia as AI's central bank

A Hacker News thread frames NVIDIA as the core infrastructure provider for AI, highlighting its dominant role in chips, compute, and the supply chain and the implications for market dynamics and costs. It argues a single vendor can shape the pace and economics of AI development.

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