# AI稀缺时代的开端

- 来源：Tomer Tunguz 博客（VC 分析）
- 作者：Tomasz Tunguz
- 发布时间：2026-04-13 08:00
- AIHOT 分数：61
- AIHOT 标记：精选
- AIHOT 链接：https://aihot.news/items/cmoczwm670078slkqrwbjlxc7
- 原文链接：https://www.tomtunguz.com/ai-compute-crisis-2026

## 精选理由

Tunguz 把 AI 算力短缺的五个特征讲得很透，关系销售与价格通胀对创业者是核心挑战，虽然文章有点旧，但判断框架仍然有效。

## AI 摘要

AI算力稀缺时代正式开启。Nvidia Blackwell芯片GPU租赁价格涨至每小时4.08美元，两月内涨幅达48%；云服务商CoreWeave涨价20%并将最低合同期从一年延长至三年。Anthropic已将最新模型限制给约40个组织使用，OpenAI因算力不足被迫放弃部分项目。这标志着AI充足时代结束，"价高者得"、关系型销售、被迫多元化成为行业新常态，初创公司面临更严峻挑战。

## 正文

In short : GPU rental prices for Nvidia's Blackwell chips hit $4.08 per hour, up 48% in 60 days. The AI compute shortage is causing outages at Anthropic, forcing OpenAI to cancel products, and will reshape which startups can access frontier models. Bank of America projects demand will outstrip supply through 2029.

For the first time since the 2000s, technology companies are confronting the limits of their supply chain.

GPU rental prices for Nvidia’s Blackwell chips hit $4.08 per hour this week, up 48% from $2.75 just two months ago.1 CoreWeave raised prices 20% & extended minimum contracts from one year to three.1

“We’re making some very tough trades at the moment on things we’re not pursuing because we don’t have enough compute.” - Sarah Friar, OpenAI CFO1

This scarcity is already reshaping access. Anthropic has limited its newest model to roughly forty organizations.2 Access to the bleeding edge is becoming a gated privilege, for both capacity & security.

If the largest AI companies are having problems, startups face a tougher proposition. Five hallmarks define this era :

Relationship Based Selling : State-of-the-art models may no longer be open to everyone as providers limit access to their most profitable or strategic customers.

AI to the Highest Bidder : Even when they do become available, SOTA models may become prohibitively expensive. Companies that can raise large amounts of capital or generate strong profits will have an advantage.

Available but Slow : Even if you can pay, there may not be guarantees the models will be fast.

Inflationary Commodity : This imbalance will inevitably drive prices higher as demand compounds against a fixed supply. Procurement & margin management will become key disciplines in software companies.

Forced Diversification : Developers will be forced to look elsewhere, from smaller models to on-premise deployments, until energy infrastructure & data center buildouts catch up, which could take years.

The age of abundant AI is over, & it will remain so for years.3

Wall Street Journal, “AI Is Using So Much Energy That Computing Firepower Is Running Out,” April 2026. ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎

tomtunguz.com/mythos ↩︎

tomtunguz.com/what-if-we-run-out-of-capacity ↩︎