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Nvidia Part III: The Dawn of the AI Era (2022-2023)

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Nvidia Part III: The Dawn of the AI Era (2022-2023)

Acquired

2023/09/06
Acquired

Acquired

2023/09/06
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It’s a(nother) new era for Nvidia. We thought we’d closed the Acquired book on Nvidia back in April 2022. The story was all wrapped up: Jensen & crew had set out on an amazing journey to accelerate the world’s computing workloads. Along the way they’d dis...

Highlights

The rise of artificial intelligence has reshaped the tech landscape, and at the heart of this transformation stands a company that quietly built the engine powering the revolution. What began as a niche advantage in graphics processing has evolved into a foundational platform for the next era of computing.
09:19
AlexNet's success in 2012 marked the Big Bang moment for modern AI
29:00
Ilya counters Jensen's view by equating accurate prediction with understanding through a detective-novel analogy.
1:08:25
NVIDIA monopolizes TSMC's CoWoS capacity, creating a multi-year supply bottleneck for AI chips.
1:11:22
The DGX GH200 SuperPod can train a trillion-parameter GPT-4 class model.
1:45:03
NVIDIA's gross margin has climbed from 24% pre-CUDA to 70% last quarter and is forecasted to reach 72% next quarter.
1:53:55
Jensen Huang starts his day at 5 am, seven days a week, and views work as relaxing.
2:05:15
Switching from NVIDIA, especially for model training on LLMs, is difficult.
2:17:05
Jensen compares the current AI moment to the iPhone moment.
2:28:17
A crisis of confidence in AI utility could slow corporate spending in the next 12-18 months
2:39:44
Most current workloads are not accelerated, but could be with better tools.
2:42:36
NVIDIA is more like Microsoft than Intel, controlling both the software stack and hardware ecosystem.
2:53:36
Moana represents a return to form for Disney animation after the Pixar acquisition.

Chapters

How a 2012 AI breakthrough ignited NVIDIA’s rise
00:00
From transformers to GPT-3: the AI leap NVIDIA bet on
25:24
Why generative AI became NVIDIA’s golden opportunity
46:47
What makes NVIDIA’s AI hardware worth millions?
1:11:22
How NVIDIA shattered revenue records in the AI boom
1:26:57
Is NVIDIA unstoppable in the new AI-powered data center?
1:47:53
What keeps competitors from catching up to NVIDIA?
2:02:04
How NVIDIA built a developer empire bigger than its chips
2:11:31
Will open-source AI platforms challenge NVIDIA’s dominance?
2:22:31
Is generative AI overhyped—or just getting started?
2:31:14
Why catching NVIDIA means beating more than just a chip
2:42:36
What pop culture tells us about innovation and legacy
2:51:07

Transcript

Ben Gilbert: Do you like my Bucks t-shirt? David Rosenthal: I love your Bucks t-shirt. Ben Gilbert: I went for the first time, what, two weeks ago when I was down for meeting at Benchmark. And the nostalgia in there was just unbelievable. David Rosentha...