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The market for compute

December 11, 2025

Here’s a very inter­esting post from Dave Friedman arguing that the market for AI com­pute will evolve to become “Chicago-shaped” rather than “Mountain View-shaped”. His com­par­ison of the prop­er­ties of AWS-flavored serving com­pute vs Anthropic-flavored training com­pute, up at the top, is on its own worth the click.

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