Nvidia Plays Down Rival AI Chip Threats

Key facts

• Nvidia has claimed it is 'a generation ahead' of rivals in the artificial intelligence (AI) industry.
• Nvidia stated it was the only platform which 'runs every AI model and does it everywhere computing is done'.
• Google's chips are called tensor processing units (TPUs).
• Google rents access to its chips, called tensor processing units (TPUs), through Google Cloud to AI developers.
• Nvidia's chips have become a critical part of powering the data centres behind many of the most popular AI tools, such as ChatGPT.
• Both Amazon and Microsoft have announced they also have AI chips in development.