ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent have collectively placed over $35 billion in Nvidia chip orders, including 3 million RTX 5500 Pro units at $11.4 each. The purchases are aimed at large‑scale LLM inference and AI video generation workloads. This level of procurement renders the high‑end RTX 5500 Pro inaccessible for smaller, local LLM projects.