From Cleo Abram.
What NVIDIA is trying to build next…
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I interviewed NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang on January 7th, 2025. In the last few years, NVIDIA has skyrocketed to become one of the world’s most valuable companies. That’s because, beginning in the 90s, they led a fundamental shift in how computers work, now unleashing the current explosion of what’s possible with technology.
A huge amount of the most futuristic tech you’re hearing about – in AI, robotics, gaming, self-driving cars, breakthrough medical research – relies on new chips and software designed by him and his company.
During the dozens of background interviews I did to prepare for this, what struck me most was how much Jensen Huang has already influenced all our lives over the last 30 years, and how many are saying it’s just the beginning of something even bigger…
We all need to know what he’s building and why, and most importantly, what he’s trying to build next, so you can decide for yourself what you think of it.
Welcome to the second episode of our new series, Huge Conversations…
If you want to know what the most important people building the future are imagining it will look like, Huge Conversations is the show for you.
Watch our first episode of Huge Conversations with Mark Zuckerberg here: https://youtu.be/oX7OduG1YmI?si=mMTesn2gvBeRJmos
Watch our trailer to understand more about the mission of Huge Conversations: https://youtu.be/JbKzSDfDdns?si=0PLbyG-RkFGqi9jQ
Chapters:
0:00 What is Jensen Huang trying to build?
1:40 The goal of this Huge Conversation
3:40 How did we get here?
4:25 What is a GPU?
5:45 Why video games first?
7:59 What is CUDA?
11:04 Why was AlexNet such a big deal?
15:40 Why are we hearing about AI so much now?
19:33 What are NVIDIA’s core beliefs?
21:34 Why does this moment feel so different?
24:08 What’s the future of robots?
30:15 What is Jensen’s 10-year vision?
32:00 What are the biggest concerns?
35:14 What are the biggest limitations?
38:05 How does NVIDIA make big bets on specific chips (transformers)?
42:33 How are chips made?
44:19 What’s Jensen’s next bet?
47:20 How should people prepare for this future?
50:12 How does this affect people’s jobs?
52:37 GeForce RTX 50 Series and NVIDIA DGX
55:50 What’s Jensen’s advice for the future?
59:07 How does Jensen want to be remembered?
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Bio:
Cleo Abram is a video journalist who produces Huge If True, an optimistic show about science and technology. Huge If True is an antidote to the doom and gloom, helping a wide audience see better futures they can help build. In each episode, Cleo dives deep into one innovation that could shape the future. She has explored humanoid robots at Boston Dynamics, supersonic planes at NASA, quantum computers at IBM, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, and more. Every episode mixes high quality animations and detailed scripts with relatable vlog-style journeys, taking the audience along for an adventure to answer the question: If this works, what could go right? Previously, Cleo was a video producer at Vox and directed for Explained on Netflix. She was the host of Vox’s first ever daily show, Answered, as well as co-host of Vox’s YouTube Originals show, Glad You Asked.
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Welcome to the joke down low:
Why does a GPU without CUDA wear glasses?
Because it can’t C!
If you don’t get this joke yet, watch the rest of the episode!
Find a way to use “C” in a comment to let me know you’re a real one who made it to the end of the description 🙂
