Huang Renxun Never Stops: Chips, Data Centers, and Models Advance in Parallel—Nvidia Locks In AI Dominance with Investments and Price Hikes

Nvidia is building its AI moat with rare intensity: co-leading an investment in Perplexity, spending $6 billion to secure 100 engineers and software licenses from Poolside, and making deep inroads into data center power infrastructure. Meanwhile, its flagship chip prices will rise 17% next year, pushing the cost of gigawatt-scale data centers up by over $5 billion. Huang Renxun's calculus is clear—on the eve of the AI infrastructure boom, lock in partners through investment and assert pricing power through hikes.