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The Deep View 2026-05-07-1

OpenAI MRC Protocol: What Gets Open-Sourced Is the Non-Moat

What frontier labs open-source is a map of the non-moats. OpenAI released its GPU networking protocol through OCP with Microsoft, AMD, Broadcom, NVIDIA, and Intel as coalition partners, two years in development, already running at Stargate's Abilene site and used to train GPT-5.5. The corollary lands hardest for Microsoft: they have the protocol, run it on Fairwater, and still ship mid-class models, which means networking efficiency was never the binding constraint.

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ai-infrastructureai-economicsprotocol-standardizationai-1.0-defensibilitycompute-moatsgpu-infrastructureopenaimicrosoftbroadcomnvidiahyperscalerreliabilityopen-modelsintelamdai-infrastructure-capexinfrastructure-bottleneckstargateevalrigpickrig
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Bloomberg 2026-03-10-1

Oracle and OpenAI End Plans to Expand Flagship Stargate Data Center

Nvidia paid $150M to a DC developer to ensure its GPUs — not AMD's — fill the expansion, making it an infrastructure intermediary, not just a chip vendor. The deeper signal: OpenAI's "often-changing demand forecasting" suggests even the largest training compute buyer is uncertain about forward requirements, cracking the infinite-linear-scaling thesis. Cooling failures taking buildings offline in winter are the first concrete evidence of operational fragility at hyperscale AI density.

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