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I just got back from GTC and I'm

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convinced that Wall Street does not

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understand Nvidia. That's because the

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best long-term investments come from

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understanding a company's products, not

0:11

just their profits. And after everything

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I saw, I believe that Nvidia will be the

0:16

first company on Earth to hit $10

0:18

trillion in market cap. Let me show you

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why. Your time is valuable, so let's get

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right into it. Look, I'm not here to

0:25

recap Jensen's keynote. Instead, I want

0:28

to share what I learned by actually

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going to GTC myself, interviewing

0:32

Nvidia's executives, trying out

0:34

prototype robots, riding in self-driving

0:36

cars, touching a quantum computer, and

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even talking to Jensen Hong himself.

0:41

After all the big announcements, the

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mainstream media and Wall Street

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analysts are focused on Nvidia's new

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Reuben GPUs. But I think they're missing

0:49

the bigger picture. Vera Rubin isn't

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just about faster chips. It's a

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blueprint for the entire AI revolution

0:56

with huge implications for data center

0:58

spending, how AI systems will be

1:00

designed going forward, and of course,

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what kind of stocks will win big as a

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result. So, let me break down the

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biggest things I learned at GTC and what

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surprised me the most. Nvidia's Vera

1:11

Rubin platform and the new Gro 3

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inference chips. How that hardware ties

1:16

into Nvidia's AI strategy for agentic

1:18

systems like Openclaw. the surprising

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things I saw in self-driving cars and

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humanoid robots and what I think this

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all means for Nvidia stock going

1:27

forward. One thing that surprised me is

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just how different Nvidia's Vera Rubin

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platform is from Blackwell. It's not

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just a faster system like a lot of

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headlines are suggesting. Reuben comes

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with fundamentally different approaches

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to networking memory and even compute.

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And that needed to happen for two very

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important reasons. First, AI models

1:47

don't just get trained one time anymore.

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They continuously get fine-tuned via

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reinforcement learning. And second, AI

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workloads are shifting from short chat

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prompts written by humans to autonomous

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agents like OpenClaw, Perplexity

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Computer, and Claude. These agents are

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calling tools. They're browsing

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websites, writing code, and running for

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millions of tokens at a time. And that

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costs thousands of times more tokens

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than regular chat prompts, which makes

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power efficient, low latency inference

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the new main cost driver for AI. This is

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why I expect data center spending to

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actually accelerate, not slow down like

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most analysts predict. And this is why

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Vera Rubin is a fundamentally different

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system from Blackwell. It's designed to

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produce as many useful tokens as

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possible per rack, per watt, and per

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dollar. So these openclaw style agents

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are actually affordable to deploy at

2:39

scale. Nvidia announced seven new chips

2:42

as part of the Reuben platform. I want

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to respect your time, so I'll list them

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all out for you, but then I'll focus on

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the two that really matter for

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investors. The Reuben GPU is the main AI

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chip. It has a new transformer engine

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that gives it a much higher token

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throughput versus Blackwell, about five

2:58

times higher inference performance, 3.5

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times higher training performance, and

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it cuts token costs by over 90%. The

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headlines are right to call out these

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insane improvements, but I'll show you

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what they mean for the bigger picture in

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a minute. The Vera Rubin CPU is an

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ARMbased processor with 88 custom cores

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designed to handle all the messy tasks

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that GPUs are bad at like orchestration

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and control, branching logic, and

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preparing data. The Vera CPU schedules

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and coordinates multi- aent workloads.

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It handles API and tool calls, and it

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runs any additional software and

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services that are installed on that same

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rack. Think about things like data

3:36

logging, monitoring, security services,

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and so on. Vera has roughly three times

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the memory capacity, double the memory

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bandwidth per core, and double the

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connection speed to the GPUs compared to

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Grace. And it can also do full

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confidential computing, which wasn't

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available in the Grace CPU. So yeah,

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CPUs are still very important to the AI

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story. They just look very different

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from the traditional CPUs we're used to.

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The NVLink 6 switch chips connect all 72

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GPUs together at the rack level. NVLink

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6 has double the bandwidth from the

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previous generation, around 3.6

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terabytes per second. That's fast enough

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to move around 250 fulllength 4K movies

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between chips every single second. The

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ConnectX9 Supernick is a network

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interface card that sits in each compute

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tray to move data between the network

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and GPU memory as well as encrypt

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traffic so that the network stays fast,

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predictable, and secure as more racks

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get added to it. The Spectrum 6 Ethernet

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switch provides the backbone that

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connects Reuben racks and storage pods

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together along with co-packaged optics.

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This is the part of the system where

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Nvidia's $2 billion investments in

4:46

coherent ticker symbol COH and Lum

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ticker symbol LIT come into play. Leave

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me a comment if you want me to make a

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full video about optical networking

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because this technology is all about

4:58

making networks more resilient, more

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error-free, and more power efficient.

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These next two chips, the Gro 3 LPU and

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the Bluefield 4 DPU are where I think

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Nvidia really innovated the most. While

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the GPUs, CPUs, and networking chips got

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obvious upgrades, Gro 3 rewrites how

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token generation works in general. And

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Bluefield 4 adds a whole new context

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start with Grock since it's one of the

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most important acquisitions for

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investors to understand. The Gro 3 chip

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seems to be replacing the Reuben CPX

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GPU, which Nvidia originally designed

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for inference. But this Grock chip isn't

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a GPU at all. It's an LPU, a language

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processing unit. And it's crazy just how

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fast Nvidia was able to integrate it.

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Nvidia announced a $20 billion deal to

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license Gro's technology and hire most

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of the core engineering team on December

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24th, 2025. Jensen showed off the first

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Gro 3 LPX during his GTC keynote. That's

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roughly 3 months from the acquisition

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announcement to the first public demo

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and 9 months from the start of the deal

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to the first chip launch, which is even

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faster than most startups can move.

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Nvidia moved so fast because each Grock

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LPU is built around 500 MGB of onchip

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SRAMM that stores the model weights, the

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activations, and the KV cache instead of

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distributing them all over external

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DRAM. I know that sounds like alphabet

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soup, so let me say it in English.

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Static random access memory or SRAMM is

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small but insanely fast and it lives

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right on a chip. It's expensive and

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power- hungry per bit, but it has very

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predictable memory access at low

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latencies. DRAM is much larger but

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slower offchip memory. It's cheaper per

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bit and it's great for capacity, but

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accessing it costs more time and energy

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and latency can vary a lot under

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different kinds of workloads. And during

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his keynote, Jensen had a whole slide

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dedicated to this difference. The Reuben

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GPU has 288 GB of high bandwidth memory,

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which is DRAM, while one Grock LPU has

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500 mgabytes of SRAMM, almost 600 times

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less capacity. My point is, these are

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fundamentally different kinds of chips

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for fundamentally different parts of the

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AI chain. They even sit in separate

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racks. Nvidia's LPX racks connect 256

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Grock LPUs to create a dedicated ultra-

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low latency path for the decode phase of

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inference, while the Reuben GPUs focus

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on training, prefill, and attention. If

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you look back at Nvidia's original road

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map, it used to have a Reuben CPX GPU

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specifically designed for large context

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inference. I even made a whole video

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about it. That chip is now missing from

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the latest slides. With these Gro

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systems effectively taking its place, so

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set another way, Nvidia spent $20

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billion. They integrated Grock's LPU

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architecture into their systems in under

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a year, and they quietly replaced their

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own Reuben CPX accelerator with

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something that delivers up to 35 times

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higher inference throughput per watt and

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up to 10 times more revenue per rack

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when serving large models. I honestly

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think we're going to look back at

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Nvidia's Grock deal as their most

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important acquisition since Melanox.

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Melanox is why Nvidia now owns the

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networking technologies around their

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GPUs, Spectrum X Ethernet, Quantum

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Infiniband, and their Bluefield DPUs. So

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far, we've talked about the Reuben GPUs,

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the Various CPUs, and the Gro LPUs. But

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Bluefield 4 is the piece that literally

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ties them all together. Bluefield 4 is a

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data processing unit or DPU. It sits

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inside the Vera Rubin compute trays, the

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Grock LPX trays, and the separate

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context memory and storage trays. The

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LPU in each tray handles the networking,

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the memory access, and the data controls

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so that the GPUs and the LPUs can focus

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on generating tokens. And on the storage

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side, Bluefield is the processor inside

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Nvidia's new STX context memory racks.

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These racks keep long-term agent context

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on separate drives instead of on

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expensive GPU memory. Then it pulls the

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right data back into the GPUs right

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before it's needed. That's how Ruben

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keeps token speeds high while cutting

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power costs for agents with long context

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windows by around 5x. Here's what that

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means in terms of performance at the

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rack level. Pairing a Vera Rubin rack

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with a Gro 3 LPX rack can generate up to

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35 times the inference tokens per watt

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and one STX context memory rack gives up

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to five times more tokens per second and

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five times better power efficiency for

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long context workloads. So when you add

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it all up, the Reuben GPUs, the Vera

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CPUs, the Gro 3 LPUs, and the Bluefield

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4 DPUs, as well as the context memory

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and networking stack, you're looking at

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a complete overhaul of Nvidia's hardware

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portfolio that data centers can mix and

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match. For example, data centers focused

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on training and big batch inference will

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mostly deploy Vera Rubin NVL72 racks.

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But for real-time agentic workloads

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where latency really matters, Jensen

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suggested that about 25% of a data

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center could shift to the new Grock LPX

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racks. Here's another insight for

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investors that I don't see any Wall

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Street analysts talking about. We should

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be watching Nvidia's data center

11:30

revenues for two key reasons. First,

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Ruben gives Nvidia new ways to scale

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beyond selling more GPU racks, like

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layering on high-v value components and

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services across more specialized racks

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like Grock and these memory racks. And

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second, if they break out revenue from

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things like memory, DPUs, and LPUs, like

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they did for networking, the mix will

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tell us a lot about which workloads

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their customers are leaning into. all

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the way from classic model training to

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supporting AI agents which helps us find

12:01

more winning stocks across the supply

12:03

chain. All right, now let's talk about

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who actually uses all these tokens.

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Jensen called OpenClaw the operating

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system for personal AI. OpenClaw is an

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open- source agent that can browse the

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internet, code, call tools, and run for

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millions of tokens at a time. This is

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why I think token demand will be much

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higher than most analysts expect. data

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centers won't just be serving a few

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billion people, but potentially tens of

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billions of always on AI agents, burning

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tokens to do everything that people

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already do, except much faster and for

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much longer, including spinning up even

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more agents of their own. The problem

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with OpenClaw is that it's an

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open-source AI agent with root access to

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everything on a computer. That's a

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security and compliance nightmare for

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enterprises. That's where Nemo Claw

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comes in. Nvidia's open- source stack

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that wraps Open Quaw with a policy

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engine, privacy routing, and a secure

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runtime environment so that companies

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can build in guard rails to decide which

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tools the agent can use, what data it

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can touch, and where everything runs

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locally, in the cloud, or on their own

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Ruben pods. And now we've come full

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circle. OpenClaw is what drives token

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demand through the roof. Nemoclaw is the

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control layer that makes agents safe and

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deployable in the real world. And

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Nvidia's Reuben architecture is the

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hardware stack built to serve that flood

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of tokens as efficiently as possible. As

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more enterprises plug into OpenClaw and

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Nemoclaw, more agents will use more

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tokens. And that's how this software

13:34

story eventually shows up in Nvidia's

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data center revenues. This is why it's

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so important to understand the science

13:41

behind the stocks. We can see these

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demand signals long before they show up

13:46

in the earnings numbers. But GTC also

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made it clear that Nvidia isn't stopping

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at software agents. They're going after

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robots and self-driving cars to bring AI

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to the physical world. So, let's talk

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about that next. And if you feel I've

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more content like this. Thanks. Now,

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let's talk about physical AI. What

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really surprised me at GTC wasn't that

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Nvidia is talking about robots and

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self-driving cars. It's how far along a

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lot of this technology already is and

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how far behind the coverage feels. On

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the robotic side, humanoids like

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Agility's Digit are already running real

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shifts in GXO warehouses. GXO runs

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massive contract logistics warehouses

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for big brands like Nike, Amazon, and

14:35

Apple. They design and operate the

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warehouses and increasingly pack them

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with automation and robots for their

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customers. Agility's Digit is already

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deployed under a robotics as a service

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model, not just walking around on stage.

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While I was at GTC, I saw an entire

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ecosystem of robots for industrial

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warehouses, hospitals, and even retail

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all being trained on the same Isaac and

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Cosmos world model stack. What most

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investors are missing is just how fast

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this can ramp once even a handful of

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designs have proved themselves in the

15:09

field. Since everyone is training on the

15:10

same stack, a capability learned in

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simulation for one warehouse or one

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factory can be tweaked and reused for

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the next 100 customers instead of

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starting from scratch every single time.

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So, between all the robots I saw at GTC

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and everything I learned from

15:25

interviewing Spencer Huang, I suspect

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the robot uprising, I mean, the physical

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AI revolution could be here much sooner

15:32

than most people realize. And on the

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autonomous vehicle side, I got to spend

15:36

an hour in Nvidia's L2++ Mercedes as it

15:40

drove through downtown San Francisco. As

15:42

it turns out, what would be edge cases

15:44

for the rest of us are pretty standard

15:46

road conditions in SF. We saw people

15:49

running stop signs and red lights. We

15:51

got cut off at least five times. We saw

15:53

double parked cars on the side of every

15:55

street and construction in the middle of

15:57

them. And the car handled all of these

16:00

cases with ease. And what surprised me

16:02

the most was just how natural it all

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felt. The handoff between human and

16:06

computer was seamless in both

16:07

directions. And the system is just

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flatout better than most people at

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handling the hard stuff. predicting what

16:14

other drivers will do, deciding when

16:16

there's enough space to fit into a gap,

16:18

navigating around stationary and moving

16:20

obstacles, and finding a safe path in

16:22

spots where I would definitely hesitate

16:24

if I was the one driving. I'll drop my

16:26

full unedited ride as a standalone video

16:28

soon. But the big takeaway for investors

16:31

is that self-driving is already here and

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it's ready to be rolled out across a lot

16:36

of different cars and fleets, not just

16:38

the chips, but the full software stack

16:40

with Nvidia's Alpio. reasoning model and

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their drive Hyperion platform front and

16:46

center. The headline partnership here is

16:48

Uber. NVIDIA powered robo taxis using

16:51

Drive Hyperion and Alpamo are planned to

16:54

roll out on Uber's network in cities

16:56

like LA and San Francisco as soon as

16:59

next year and then expand to 28 cities

17:01

through 2028. Nvidia announced that

17:04

companies like BYYD, Gile, Nissan, and

17:06

Isuzu are developing their own level

17:09

four vehicles for ride hailing apps and

17:11

commercial fleets. And it's not just

17:13

robo taxis. Nvidia is targeting

17:15

autonomous trucking, buses, and

17:17

industrial vehicles, all of which will

17:19

share the same software, simulation

17:21

tools, and hardware building blocks.

17:23

When I asked Jensen what he thought was

17:25

the biggest near-term application for

17:27

these agentic systems like OpenClaw, he

17:29

said autonomous vehicles. and he

17:32

explained that even though Nvidia's

17:33

automotive segment is less than 1% of

17:36

their total revenues today, that's how

17:38

CUDA started too. And today, Nvidia is

17:40

delivering the trained AI models, the

17:42

standardized simulation environment, and

17:45

the onboard brain for ride hailing

17:47

fleets, for delivery vans, for trucks,

17:50

and for cars around the world. All of

17:51

which will keep feeding demand back into

17:54

their Vera Rubin AI factories. So, when

17:56

you zoom out from GTC, the pattern is

17:59

pretty clear. Nvidia isn't just selling

18:01

faster GPUs. They're wiring themselves

18:04

into every part of the AI economy. The

18:07

tokens, the agents, the robots and

18:09

self-driving cars, and the data centers

18:11

powering it all. This is the bigger

18:13

picture that I think most Wall Street

18:15

analysts are missing. This is why I

18:17

think Nvidia will be the world's first

18:19

$10 trillion company. This is why it's

18:22

so important to understand the science

18:24

behind the stocks. And if you want to

18:26

see even more science behind the stocks,

18:28

check out this video next. Either way,

18:31

thanks for watching and until next time,

18:33

this is Tickerol U. My name is Alex,

18:36

reminding you that the best investment

18:38

you can make is in you.

Interactive Summary

The video provides an in-depth analysis of Nvidia's recent announcements at GTC, arguing that Wall Street underestimates the company's long-term potential. The host explains that Nvidia's 'Vera Rubin' platform is not just a hardware upgrade but a fundamental redesign to support the AI revolution—specifically focusing on agentic systems, data center efficiency, and physical AI through robots and autonomous vehicles. By integrating specialized hardware like GPUs, CPUs, LPUs, and advanced networking, Nvidia is positioning itself as the backbone of an economy driven by AI agents and token-heavy workloads, likely leading to a $10 trillion market cap.

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