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Opinion
Chintala: Nvidia's primary competitive moat is NVLink interconnect, not GPU silicon
“The mode that Nvidia has right now, I feel like, is that they're, they have the interconnect that no one else has. Like, AMD GPUs are pretty good. I'm sure there's very silicon that is not bad at all, but, like, the interconnect like, NVLink is uniquely awesom…”
Soumith Chintala Mar 6, 2024 ▶ 18:57 Open Source AI is AI we can Trust — with Soumith Chintala of Meta AI
Insight
Tensor parallelism is a poor fit for local multi-device AI setups
“Tensor parallelism is not a good fit for local AI because it assumes a very high bandwidth interconnects like NVLink was, you know, They might be forced to do something like pipeline parallelism, which we're never going to do unless we're doing some kind of mu…”
Philip Kiely Aug 3, 2026 ▶ 51:29 Next 100x in AI: Inference, Networking, & Self-Optimizing Models — Philip Kiely & Ali Taha, Baseten
Assertion Supported
Scaling beyond eight NVIDIA H100 GPUs requires inter-GPU communication over InfiniBand
“The maximum NVLink domain, domain for H 100 for most DGX H 100 Is eight GPUs, right? So if you scaled up past that, You're gonna have to figure out ways to handle the fact that now for the GPUs to communicate, you have to do it over InfiniBand, which is still …”
Kyle Kranen Mar 8, 2026 ▶ 30:26 Agent Inference at the "Speed of Light" — How NVIDIA moves like a $4.3 Trillion Startup
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