Nvidia’s days of absolute dominance in AI could be numbered because of this key performance benchmark

• Nvidia faces competition in AI inference from startups like SambaNova, Groq, and Cerebras.
• Inference, the production stage of AI, is seen as a key market by these startups.
• Startups claim superior speed and efficiency for inference, but there are tradeoffs.

It’s difficult to chip away at a headstart that is essentially trillions of dollars strong, but that’s what Nvidia’s competitors are attempting. They may have the best chance of competing in a type of artificial intelligence computing called inference.