NVIDIA unveiled its new Rubin AI computing platform at CES 2026, marking a strategic shift from selling individual GPUs to providing rack-scale "AI factories" designed to enable faster and more cost-effective large-scale inference. The reduction in AI infrastructure costs is expected to drive a surge in specialized, modular AI models. This trend highlights the growing importance of decentralized AI markets such as Bittensor. Bittensor offers a neutral on-chain system that ranks, selects, and pays AI models using its native token TAO based on performance, effectively creating a coordination layer for this emerging and thriving AI economy.