NVIDIA Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA) GPUs are are not only powering generative AI, they've become geopolitical bargaining chips. The U.S. government just proved it by giving Armenia access to its most advanced chips, something most countries are vying for. San Francisco-based startup Firebird AI received approval this week to export 6,144 Blackwell GPUs to Armenia, providing enough computing power to build the region’s first large-scale AI factory.