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How AI drove Shopify back to clean code

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💡 AI analysis: The formation of an AMD-Cerebras alliance against NVIDIA’s Groq LPUs signals a strategic move to erode CUDA dominance and restructure the competitive landscape of high-performance AI inference hardware.
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