OpenAI’s Altman Meets Samsung Executives as Chip Crunch Deepens
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Top-of-stack AI players are now negotiating directly with memory and infra giants—compute scarcity is shifting from GPUs to the broader component chain. If you’re planning large training runs in 2027–2028, secure not just GPU capacity but vendor commitments on memory and networking.
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