Jensen Huang: recommendation

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…True. I want to ask about your competitors. If you look at the TPU, arguably two out of the top three models in the world, Claude and Gemini, were trained on TPU. What does that mean for Nvidia going forward? We build a very different thing. What Nvidia built is accelerated computing, not a tensor processing unit. Accelerated computing is used for all kinds of things: molecular dynamics, quantum chromodynamics, data processing, data frames, structured data, and unstructured data. It’s also used for fluid dynamics and particle physics. In addition, we use it for AI. Accelerated computing is much more diverse. Although AI is the conversation today and is obviously very important and impactful, computing is much broader than that. Nvidia has reinvented the way computing is done, moving from general-purpose computing to accelerated computing. Our market reach is far greater than any TPU or ASIC can possibly have. If you look at our position, we’re the only company that accelerates applications of all kinds. We have a gigantic ecosystem. So all kinds of frameworks and algorithms run on Nvidia. Because our computers are designed to be operated by other people, anyone who’s an operator can buy our systems. With most of these home-built systems, you have to be your own operator because they were never designed to be flexible enough for others to operate. Because anybody can operate our systems, we’re in every cloud, including Google, Amazon, Azure, and OCI. If you want to operate it to rent, you better have a large ecosystem of customers in many industries to be the offtakers. If you want to operate it for yourself, we obviously have the ability to help you operate it yourself, like we did for Elon with xAI. And because we can enable operators in any company and any industry, you could use it to build a supercomputer for scientific research and drug discovery at Lilly. We can help them operate their own supercomputer and use it for the entire diversity of drug discovery and biological sciences that we accelerate. There are just a whole bunch of applications that we can address that you can’t do with TPUs. Nvidia built CUDA to be a fantastic tensor processing unit as well, but it also handles every life cycle of data processing, computing, AI, and so on. Our market opportunity is just a lot larger, and our reach is a lot greater. Because we support every application in the world now, you can build Nvidia systems anywhere and know that there will be customers for it. It’s a very different thing. This is going to be a long question. You have spectacular revenue, and you’re not making $60 billion a quarter from pharma and quantum. You’re making it because AI is an unprecedented technology that is growing unprecedentedly fast. The question then is what is best for AI specifically. I’m not in the details, but I talk to my AI researcher friends and they say, “Look, when I use a TPU, it’s this big systolic array that’s perfect for doing matrix multiplies, whereas a GPU is very flexible. It’s great when you have lots of branching or irregular memory access.” But what is AI? It’s just these very predictable matrix multiplies again and again and again. You don’t have to give up any die area for warp schedulers or switches between threads and memory banks. And the TPU is really optimized for the bulk of this growth in revenue and use case for compute that is coming online right now. I wonder how you react to that.…

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