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Microsoft has pulled back on over a gigawatt of planned data center capacity, suggesting that they do not think there is a growth future in generative AI (www.wheresyoured.at)
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[–] FooBarrington 1 points 4 hours ago

If a new driver came out that gave Nvidia 5090 performance to games with gtx1080 equivalent hardware would you still buy a new video card this year?

It doesn't make any sense to compare games and AI. Games have a well-defined upper bound for performance. Even Crysis has "maximum settings" that you can't go above. Supposedly, this doesn't hold true for AI, scaling it should continually improve it.

So: yes, in your analogy, MS would still buy a new video card this year if they believed in the progress being possible and reasonably likely.