From footwear to AI chips: Allbirds’ next move is hard to explain

The fall of former direct-to-consumer darling Allbirds has taken a very weird turn. Allbirds, the sustainable shoemaker that caught fire with the Silicon Valley set about a decade ago, will start selling silicon itself. The company said in a press release that it will transform itself into a business focused on leasing GPUs—the powerful graphics processing unit chips underpinning the AI boom that