OpenAI is copying Apple’s biggest competitive advantage — and Nvidia should be paying attention
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If OpenAI is moving toward custom chips to control more of its stack, the long-term margin and differentiation game shifts from pure model quality to vertical integration. For enterprises, this foreshadows a world where your AI vendor choice also locks in a hardware and cloud alignment—multi-vendor resilience will get harder to maintain.
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