Nvidia just admitted the general-purpose GPU era is ending
FeaturedMatt Marshall January 3, 2026 Nvidia’s $20 billion strategic licensing deal with Groq represents one of the first clear moves in a four-front fight over the future AI stack. 2026 is when that fight becomes obvious to enterprise builders.For the technical decision-makers we talk to every day — the people building the AI applications and the data pipelines that drive them — this deal is a signal that the era of the one-size-fits-all GPU as the default AI inference answer is ending.We are entering the age of the disaggregated inference architecture, where the silicon itself is being split into two different types to accommodate a world that demands both massive context and instantaneous reasoning.Why inference is breaking the GPU architecture in twoTo understand why Nvidia…
