Nvidia’s ‘Kingmaker’ Role as Google Races for ‘True’ AI

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Nvidia emerges as a ‘kingmaker’ financing AI infrastructure as Alphabet’s push for a ‘true’ AI model sparks negative cash flow concerns and market volatility, prompting a $500B funding race.

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On Schwab Network, Noah Kann called out a structural shift: companies that once bought compute are now selling it, and Alphabet's earnings showed a move into negative free cash flow followed by a visible stock sell-off. That matters because the race to build the first "true" artificial intelligence (AI) model is making compute a strategic choke point, and Nvidia is being cast as a kingmaker as financiers and chipmakers line up to fund roughly $500 billion of infrastructure. The segment crystallizes why the Mag 7 winners will be defined as much by capital and chips as by code.