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Chip Supply Chain

Artwork for Stanford MS&E435 Economics of the AI Supercycle | Spring 2026 | Infrastructure, Capstone Case
Stanford MS&E 435

Stanford MS&E435 Economics of the AI Supercycle | Spring 2026 | Infrastructure, Capstone Case

OpenAI’s compute lead is becoming an industrial-scale infrastructure problem spanning chips, power, cooling, land, and supply-chain coordination. The episode argues that agentic AI is shifting workloads toward inference, latency, and heterogeneous hardware, while long-term value may move from infra toward platforms and apps.