Modular Aims to Challenge Nvidia's Dominance

Nvidia's absolute chokehold on the world of AI might finally be breaking. There’s a new startup

called Modular, founded by some ex-Apple and Google engineers, and they just raised

250 million dollars. Their mission? To challenge Nvidia's software dominance. See,

Nvidia controls over 80% of the AI chip market, largely because their special software,

CUDA, locks developers into their ecosystem. If you build on it,

you're stuck with their hardware. But Modular is creating a "Switzerland" for AI.

It's a neutral software platform that lets developers run their AI apps on any chip—Nvidia, AMD,

Apple, you name it—without rewriting a single line of code. Investors are calling