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25.11.25 - 16:12
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Stock Rally Falters As Nvidia-Google AI Rivalry Intensifies (ZeroHedge)
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Stock Rally Falters As Nvidia-Google AI Rivalry Intensifies
US futures are flat, having rebounded from session lows, even as Nvidia shares fell 3.8% in premarket trading as investors assess the threat of increased competition after a report that Meta Platforms is in talks to spend billions on Google's TPU-based AI chips (see "The Google TPU: The Chip Made For The AI Inference Era"); Alphabet shares climb 3.2% in premarket. As of 8:15am ET, S&P 500 futures are unchanged after posting the biggest daily gain since Oct 13, while Nasdaq 100 contracts drop 0.1%. The prospect of a market shake-up rippled across other tech companies. AMD slipped more than 3%, while Japan's SoftBank Group shares tumbled 10% on concern that Alphabet's Gemini model could boost competition for OpenAI, a key SoftBank investment. Treasuries are steady, with US 10-year yields down 1bp to 4.01%. The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index is down 0.1% while the yen leads gains against the greenback, rising 0.4%. The pound a...
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25.11.25 - 13:12
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Nvidia Slides As Google Emerges As New Threat In AI-Chip Market (ZeroHedge)
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Nvidia Slides As Google Emerges As New Threat In AI-Chip Market
Alphabet shares jumped 4% in premarket trading after The Information reported that Meta is in talks to spend billions on Google's tensor processing units (TPUs) for its data centers beginning in 2027, with plans to potentially rent TPU capacity from Google Cloud in the near term.
The report sent Nvidia shares down roughly 3.5% as investors weighed the possibility that Google could seize some of Nvidia's market share. In other words, Google is gaining traction as a credible alternative to Nvidia's GPUs (read here).
Also, SoftBank Group shares in Tokyo plunged as much as 11%, hitting a 2.5-month low on the news, as investors worry that Google's newly released Gemini 3 model could intensify competitive pressure on OpenAI, one of SoftBank's top investments.
"The stocks are hit by concerns that the competition environment of OpenAI will become tougher after Google's Gemini 3 received strong reviews," Mitsubishi U...
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