A race between companies and countries for AI computing power.
It is a gold rush for AI. But the shovels are GPUs, and the electric bill bites.
You meet it in big model training and cloud AI prices. It makes chips strategic, and raises the entry fee for AI.
GPU
GPUs are the rare gear everyone wants in the compute race.
Scaling-law
Scaling-law keeps pushing teams to buy more compute.
Foundation-model
Bigger Foundation-models make the compute race harder to cool down.
Pretraining
Pretraining uses huge compute, so it feeds the compute race.