If 2023–2024 crowned foundation models, 2025 belongs to the machines they run on. At Web Summit 2025, hardware had gravitational pull. RankMyAI was there to track these developments firsthand. The message was blunt: AI advantage starts with the right chips, in the right places.

The AI market is growing explosively. New tools appear daily, claims tumble over one another, and anyone trying to keep an overview quickly gets lost. It was precisely in that chaos that Jesse Weltevreden, Professor of Digital Commerce at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, saw a clear societal mission.