Well, this wasn’t in our top ten 2026 expectations. According to eight sources “familiar with the matter,” OpenAI is “unsatisfied with some of Nvidia’s latest artificial intelligence chips”, and actively seeking to move away from Nvidia GPUs in favor of more specialized processors. Were this to cause a significant reduction in demand for Nvidia GPUs for AI, it could mean GPUs for graphics cards becoming more readily available, though it remains far too early to tell exactly how this situation will play out. The reason for this potential shift in demand is that while Nvidia GPUs remain dominant for training AI models, the power of these chips for providing the front-end responses to customers – known as inference – is being challenged, with application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) being increasingly favored for these tasks over general-purpose GPUs.

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 The ChatGPT-maker has apparently been seeking alternatives to Nvidia GPUs since last year, as it looks to use more specialized chips.  PCGamesN