Depends on what you think about how technologies become successful.
Some people would say the foundation of nvidia's current dominance is their mass-market gaming GPUs. While every other High Performance Computing technology wanted you to call their enterprise sales team and pay a big markup, any academic or open source developer could get their hands on an nvidia GPU - and that lead to a huge academic and open source ecosystem.
In recent years, nvidia has decided if you want more than 24GB of vram, you've got to call their enterprise sales team and pay a big markup. And a lot of people working on LLMs want more than 24GB of vram.
On the other hand, nvidia do have a lot of momentum. And of course cloud options are available these days.
Depends on what you think about how technologies become successful.
Some people would say the foundation of nvidia's current dominance is their mass-market gaming GPUs. While every other High Performance Computing technology wanted you to call their enterprise sales team and pay a big markup, any academic or open source developer could get their hands on an nvidia GPU - and that lead to a huge academic and open source ecosystem.
In recent years, nvidia has decided if you want more than 24GB of vram, you've got to call their enterprise sales team and pay a big markup. And a lot of people working on LLMs want more than 24GB of vram.
On the other hand, nvidia do have a lot of momentum. And of course cloud options are available these days.