Breaking the NVIDIA monopoly: Tenstorrent matters is the open alternative we need - Open Source

We talk a lot here about the dangers of closed ecosystems. Right now, the AI hardware market is dominated by the NVIDIA CUDA monopoly, which overprices hardware and is simply more focused on renting clouds than supplying hardware to people’s homes. It is a massive barrier to entry. Cost is the biggest hurdle. It currently takes between $3,000 and $5,000 to get a single GPU capable of serious AI processing. Most of us are stuck scavenging for used or degraded consumer cards just to keep our projects running.