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Enterprises put non-Nvidia chips 14 points ahead of Nvidia's next-gen GPUs on their evaluation lists

Enterprise buyers are increasingly considering non-Nvidia AI accelerators, with almost 40% likely to evaluate alternatives like AWS Trainium or Google TPUs over the next year, compared to about 25% for Nvidia's next-generation Blackwell. While Nvidia remains prevalent in production, organizations are building strategic optionality and optimizing existing infrastructure. Urgency to switch AI platforms has decreased as companies focus on enhancing current operations. Microsoft Azure saw significant growth in production adoption, followed closely by Google Gemini and OpenAI. Enterprises are utilizing their own GPUs more efficiently, with less running at half capacity or less. Reliability and uptime are now leading metrics for infrastructure effectiveness, with ease of implementation also improving. The shift away from immediate platform changes is driven by a desire for performance and cost-efficiency per token, rather than broad total cost of ownership. Interest in Nvidia alternatives is particularly strong among decision-makers and in mid-sized businesses. Enterprises are also prioritizing control over their AI "harness," the layer connecting models to enterprise data and tools. This indicates a preference for maintaining architectural control outside of single model providers. Neoclouds, specialized AI cloud providers, are gaining traction as a credible part of multi-provider strategies, with significant revenue backlogs reported. Open-source AI infrastructure usage is growing, particularly in production stacks, suggesting deeper adoption within a dedicated market segment. This overall trend shows enterprises running more AI infrastructure while actively maintaining multiple strategic options.