The hottest commodity in AI right now isn't ChatGPT — it's the $40,000 chip that has sparked a frenzied spending spree

• ChatGPT isn't the hottest commodity in AI right now — it's a chip named Hopper.
• Nvidia's Hopper, also known as H100, is the workhorse that drives the AI models behind ChatGPT.
• A mad dash for H100 processors is leading to a shortage. 

Move aside, ChatGPT. There's a new hot commodity in AI: a $40,000 workhorse chip that goes by the name of Hopper.