Washington, DC — On Wednesday, Demand Progress Education Fund and eight other organizations sent a letter asking state attorneys general to take antitrust action against chipmaking and AI goliath Nvidia.
The letter, sent to National Association of Attorneys General Executive Director Brian A. Kane, notes that Nvidia controls nearly 90 percent of the GPU chip market and provides nearly all GPU chips to the data centers that power AI efforts. The letter also notes that the company uses this market dominance to control chip supply, prices and access to critical hardware that is increasingly being used to power AI efforts across the economy. This summer, Demand Progress Education Fund also sent a letter urging the U.S. Justice Department to investigate Nvidia.
The following is a statement from Demand Progress Education Fund Corporate Power Director Emily Peterson-Cassin:
“State attorneys general can be champions in the equitable development of AI by taking on Nvidia’s near-total stranglehold on the market for chips that power AI. By taking action, state AGs can turn up the heat on Nvidia and send a strong message that this kind of anti-competitive market manipulation has real consequences. State AGs are uniquely poised to protect businesses in their state by ensuring that one single company doesn’t own the future of AI.”