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But the new operating system is of

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course the old operating system plus

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large language models. Large language

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models in a lot of ways is the modern

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version of DirectX.

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>> And for all the young ladies in the

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room, this way you can make babies.

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>> I always bring a bottle of whiskey.

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>> It's okay to clap.

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>> They need to make babies.

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>> The new 007 game, I'm looking forward to

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playing it. I look a little bit like him

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and we're working with so many

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companies. Cadence and Crowd Strike and

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DO and Palanteer

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>> make a baby.

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>> If you can hire a software engineer and

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you could generate

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$9 trillion dollars worth of productive

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work, why wouldn't you want to hire more

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software engineers? This is going to

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show up in our economy somehow soon.

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>> To be fair, he didn't specify if it show

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up in the economy in a good way.

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a global economic crisis would also show

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up in the economy.

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Nvidia's keynote at Computex or GTC has

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concretely stated what we've been

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inferring for a while now. But

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ultimately, our customers, our partners

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don't want to buy computers, they want

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to build AI factories. All of the CPUs

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until now

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were created for people. We were the

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users.

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We were the users. We were the renters.

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This is CPU

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for agents. All the CPUs of the past we

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built for humans. This CPU is built for

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agents. And these agents are going to be

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using the CPUs with very little

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patience. There'll be a lot more agents

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than there are people. And then there

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the agents are very impatient. Nvidia

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has realized that the total adjustable

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market of humans is low. We created CPUs

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for humans in the past and humans there

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only 1 billion of us.

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>> Now some of you might be objecting to

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that saying technically there's 8.3

2:05

billion humans Jensen but he's talking

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about the ones who matter to him. Jensen

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needs to increase the TAM beyond the 1

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billion relevant humans and find a way

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to sell billions more computers to

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somebody. And to do that, he's going to

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sell them for use by agents, as they

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call them, to get more than the couple

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hundred million PC sales per year and

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grow into the billions. But Jensen's

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also going to need something else for

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his AI dreams, and that is babies to

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feed the AI factories. The good news,

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Jensen Juan is just the aphrodesiac we

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need to make them. Speaking of babies,

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and for all the young ladies in the

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room, this way you can make babies in

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addition to the four young people who

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got married,

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they need to give they need to make

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babies. Make a baby. Speaking of babies,

2:56

and then and then speaking of babies.

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Speaking of babies, but babies require

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energy and energy requires food. And Sam

3:04

Alman already told us that humans

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inefficiently use food and energy to

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train for 21 years or so to eventually

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do work for the rich.

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>> One of the things that is always unfair

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in this comparison is people talk about

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how much energy it takes to train an AI

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model relative to how much it costs a

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human to do one inference query. But it

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also takes a lot of energy to train a

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human. It takes like 20 years of life

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and all of the food you eat during that

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time. Probably AI has already caught up

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on an energy efficiency basis measured

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that way.

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>> And Jensen agrees

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>> because human labor needs rice,

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but AI labor needs electricity.

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>> Jonathan Swift would be so proud to see

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his modest proposal realized, except

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it's the it's the data centers he the

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humans instead. But the point stands.

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Jensen though also needs energy for his

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data centers.

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>> Uh we could use more energy in Taiwan.

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You need energy. Energy growth.

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>> Taiwan needs more energy.

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>> Drill baby drill.

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>> We need more energy. I think that we all

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recognize that. We need more land power

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and shell.

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>> AI is the world's best opportunity to

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modernize the power grid.

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>> We vilified energy for so long.

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President Trump sticking his neck out

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and making taking it on the chin and

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helping this helping the country realize

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that energy is necessary for our growth

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is one of the the really one of the

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greatest things he's done right off the

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bat.

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>> Jensen does have other plans for the

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energy shortage though.

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>> I also hate elevators. I hate the

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concept of elevators.

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>> That's right. Elevators. Look at all

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these buttons. Inefficient.

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pitiful.

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You disgust me.

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>> I hate the concept of elevators.

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>> And Jensen has had a busy trip in

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Taiwan. When he wasn't busy vandalizing

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bathrooms or practicing his blue steel,

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Jensen was on the interview circuit and

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spoke about how AI wasn't actually

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causing layoffs.

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>> AI is creating so many jobs.

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>> AI is creating so many new companies. I

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think the the narrative that connects AI

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to job loss for many of the CEOs that

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are doing it, um, it is just too lazy.

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AI has just arrived. How is it possible

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they're already losing jobs?

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>> Juan's comments follow many companies

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blaming AI for layoffs or AI washing

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their layoffs. Nvidia GPU hoarder Meta

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laid off 10% of its workers to offset

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quote other investments end quote namely

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AI. Cisco cut 4,000 employees even

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though it insists it will be a winner in

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the AI era. HP will reduce headcount by

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four to 6,000 people to invest in AI

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adoption. Atlassian cut 1,600 people to

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invest in AI. Block laid off 4,000

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people due to gains from AI and said

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companies would follow suit. Even

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Pinterest reduced its workforce by

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around 15% to prioritize its resources

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in AI. And the list goes on. But Jensen

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can't be blamed for using his

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imagination. There's an optimistic

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future that uh that uh I imagine and

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facts would support my imagination of

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that future.

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>> And that makes sense because to be blind

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to the damage caused by the AI roll out,

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you'd either need to have a good

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imagination

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or be drunk.

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>> We had a We had some scotch. I brought

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him some scotch.

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>> I always bring a bottle of whiskey.

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Well,

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>> you know, I love whiskey. Cheers.

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Cheers. Cheers.

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Oh, not bad. I think we're going to

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enjoy. Let's Let's finish the rest of it

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again.

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shirt, which has gotten me looks all

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over Taipei because Nvidia is that

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recognizable here. Although it once

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represented the paper launch of the 50

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series, now it represents what we should

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do with AI, which is feed it into a wood

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chipper.

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the gold halo, and go great with

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Jensen's favorite pastime.

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of funding support. Thanks for your

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help. Now, back to it. Nvidia Jensen

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Juan says that tokens and data centers

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equal revenue, and energy equals tokens.

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Therefore, energy equals revenue.

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They're on their path to becoming a

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utility company, which maybe tracks with

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their plans to be an infrastructure

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company.

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>> That tokens are now in extraordinary

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demand. Because if you could do this,

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you're going to want to produce more of

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it. And because tokens are now

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profitable units,

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tokens are now profit.

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>> And it's clear that the audience

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absolutely loved Jensen's AI speech.

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>> Do you guys What do you guys think? It's

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pretty amazing, right?

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This is Nvidia Vera.

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What do you think? It's okay to clap.

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>> Nvidia technically had news for its

9:02

keynote that we'll go over like it's

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plans to supplant computing for humans

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with computing for AI agents instead.

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And no, that is not hyperbole. He

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literally said that like a dozen times

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throughout the keynote. He would not

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stop saying that it's all about PCs for

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agents. Now, they also had news on the

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Vera CPU deployment and continued Vera

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Rubin rollout. Also, short of news on N1

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and N1X laptops that use Nvidia CPUs,

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information that GM gathered

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independently from Nvidia partners.

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Nvidia also talked about plans for

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investing and what it claims will be a

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$150 billion investment into Taiwan,

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hopefully with more reliability than its

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investment into Open AI. The company

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also announced its plan to quote

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reinvent Windows PCs for the age of

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personal AI end quote with Microsoft

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Soft which it called the quote world's

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first Windows PCs purpose-built for

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personal agents end quote then detailed

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specs that exceed what the actual users

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typically have access to prioritizing

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their so-called agents for the 128 GB of

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memory instead. There's a lot to talk

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about today. So, Nvidia had sort of the

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pre-compete show where Jensen went on a

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tour around Taipei, meeting with

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different business partners, eating a

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lot of food, eating more food, drinking

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a lot, and and then drinking some more.

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But they also have their GTC event,

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which happens to be at the exact same

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time as Computex, which feels just sort

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of like a microcosm for what Nvidia is

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doing to consumers right now. Computex,

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the consumer hardware show, is facing

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basically a hostile takeover from

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Nvidia's GTC, which is happening at the

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exact same time.

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>> With blackjack and hookers,

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>> we've had to relocate. We made a grave

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mistake, and there was an elevator

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somewhat near our previous location. I

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could feel it in the spirit world as

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Jensen screamed at me through the doors.

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Nvidia had some actual news at the show

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and that news mostly revolved around its

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Vera CPU and its N1 or N1X solutions for

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mobile devices alongside others. Here's

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what Jensen had to say.

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>> CPUs built for the age of AI. All the

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CPUs of the past we built for humans.

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This CPU is built for agents. This is

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Nvidia Vera.

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What do you think? Vera spec sheet lists

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88 Nvidia Olympus cores and 176 threads

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using what Nvidia calls spatial

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multi-threading. It has 164 megabytes of

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unified L3 cache up to 1.2 terabytes per

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second aggregate memory bandwidth up to

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1.5 terabytes of LPDDR5X memory for

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capacity and a 250 to 450 watt TDP. Vera

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will utilize NVLink chip-to-chip

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technology which Nvidia explains stating

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this

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>> and memory coherent NVLink chiptochip

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connects GPUs directly to the fabric

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beyond GPUs NVLink chip to chip can

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scale Vera up to multiple sockets

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enabling massive bandwidth between CPUs

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Jensen also added

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>> it's the first one to be PCI Express Gen

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6. It is also the first one to have

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LPDDR DDR5 with 1.2 terabytes per

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second.

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>> Explaining the decision behind 88 cores,

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Jensen stated.

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>> The number of CPU cores, the number of

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CPUs is going to be quite high and the

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reason for that is very simple.

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We created CPUs

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for humans in the past and humans there

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only 1 billion of us.

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There will be billions of agents and

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these agents are going to be using the

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CPUs with very little patience. Jensen

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also stated what he described as Ver's

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four properties. These four properties

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instructions per clock or single

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threaded performance

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bandwidth per core

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the total bandwidth around the chip and

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inside the chip and energy efficiency

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defines Vera.

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>> In Nvidia's first party performance

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comparison, the company claimed Vera

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using LPDDR5X

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multiplied the bandwidth per core

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against an unnamed x86 CPU using DDR5.

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Nvidia claims Vera is quote now in full

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production unquote and intends to deploy

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the CPU in quote standalone Vera

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servers, Nvidia Vera Rubin Systems and

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Vera Bluefield 4 STX AI storage

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platforms end quote. Each standalone

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Vera server consists of 256 Vera CPUs.

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Maybe the big takeaway here is the

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extreme amount of memory capacity. This

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is not abnormal for Nvidia server

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solutions. They've done this for a

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while. Actually, even the DPUs use

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memory. And so, uh, when you look at

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where does all the memory go, this is

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part of it. HPM's a lot of it,

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especially because the yields are such

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that if you lose one HPM die, you lose

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potentially multiple DRAM dies depending

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how far they are in the process. Uh, but

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this is where a lot of that goes. And

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this is also not something that can just

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be pulled and sold into the secondhand

14:05

market later if it's LPDDR5X soldered to

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a board or on a card that's not suitable

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for say your typical desktop system. But

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they also had other news which was with

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Microsoft I said it right that time.

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They'll be proud of me. Nvidia also had

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news that positioned its uh consumer

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adjacent announcements where in

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collaboration with Microsoft for

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Windows, Nvidia unveiled its new RTX

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Spark. Nvidia and its partners heavily

14:32

teased the announcement, each tweeting a

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new era of PC along with the coordinates

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of Taipei Music Center where the keynote

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was held. On stage, Jensen attempted to

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clarify the statement, stating,

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>> "40 years later,

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Microsoft and Nvidia are going to

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reinvent the PC.

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This is going to be the new PC."

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>> And we don't know what that means, but

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Jensen doubled down on LLMs, comparing

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them to DirectX.

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>> But the new operating system is, of

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course, the old operating system plus

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large language models. large language

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models in a lot of ways is the modern

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version of DirectX.

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>> Regarding the specs, the RTX Spark will

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feature a Blackwell RTX GPU with 6144

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CUDA cores, a claimed one pedlop of FP4

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AI performance as they call it, and a 20

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core gray CPU built with MediaTek

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connected using Nvidia's Envy Link COC

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for chipto-chip interconnect as well as

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128 GB of unified LP DDR5X for the

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memory. Cool.

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You know, I've never thought about using

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a car on a sidewalk. Have you?

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>> Lost in the park.

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>> Yeah.

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>> Not like elevators, right?

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>> No, not like elevators. Yeah. The 6144

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CUDA cores would be the same as found on

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an RTX 570, but they're not going to be

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comparable directly. The memory

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arrangement is way different. The power

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budget is different, so it won't perform

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like a 5070. Jensen showed two RTX Spark

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Windows laptop models on stage. He said

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this.

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>> Here it is. Of

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course, I got to show you the most

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beautiful part, which is video games.

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It is It's also the closest to our

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heart.

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>> A little late for us to believe that

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one, but Jensen also showed off an RTX

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Spark desktop variant

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>> connected to your whole house, connected

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to your laptop, connected to your

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display, all the cameras, your your

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dryer, your water cooler, your water

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heater, your everything, whatever you

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want. your security system all connected

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to this and this becomes your personal

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AI.

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>> Jensen also unveiled the so-called DGX

16:41

station for Windows. The system specs

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list a GB300 Ultra desktop superchip and

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a 72 core gray CPU connected via

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Nvidia's new Envy CDC interconnect.

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Additionally, Nvidia claims, quote, "It

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features up to 748 gigabytes of coherent

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memory and up to 20 pedaflops of FP4

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performance and can be paired with an

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Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell

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workstation GPU." End quote. Closing out

17:06

the Windows announcements, Johnson

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clarified that Nvidia intended on the

17:11

partnership remaining long-term,

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stating, quote,

17:14

>> "This is a brand new product family for

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us. every single generation of

17:18

architecture, we will have a desktop, a

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laptop, a workstation.

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>> Nvidia also briefly showed its N1 and

17:27

N1X laptop solutions. They didn't really

17:29

give detail on this. There are leaks

17:31

which I think Jensen acknowledged on

17:32

stage. Uh the company's shown these a

17:34

few times over the years to press and

17:36

partners, but now they are finally

17:38

moving to launch it, it seems like. And

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here's what they said.

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>> I have too many things in my pocket.

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Okay. All right. This is the most

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amazing chip the world has ever built.

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This is the N1X that we built in

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partnership with MediaTek. I think I saw

17:58

I saw Rick earlier. This is N1X. This is

18:01

a beautiful chip. This is this is a a

18:05

chip that frankly would take 33 years to

18:08

build. And the reason for that is

18:10

because 100% of Nvidia software stack

18:14

runs here. Microsoft and Nvidia

18:16

meticulously optimized everything so

18:19

that this computer literally runs

18:22

everything the world has ever created.

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Plus,

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it now runs agents.

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>> Some of Nvidia's partners will have N1

18:30

and N1X laptops to show soon, if not at

18:33

this event. We might be able to see

18:34

some. Uh we were hearing from a couple

18:36

of Nvidia partners that they won't be

18:38

ready to ship the N1X until closer to

18:40

January 2027. I don't know if that was

18:42

that specific partner or not, but this

18:44

will be an ARM solution. And it really

18:47

sets Nvidia and Microsoft up to be more

18:50

of sort of a closed loop, just shrinking

18:52

that circle down a little bit to inflate

18:54

it more between the two of them where

18:56

they start to block out other partners

18:58

because now Nvidia will do the CPU, they

18:59

do the GPU, Microsoft does the slop and

19:02

the garbage. And between the two of

19:04

them, they have a laptop that might work

19:07

better than the one that we're editing

19:08

this video on, which I just bought for

19:10

over $5,000. has a defective three and a

19:12

half millimeter jack. Sometimes doesn't

19:15

turn on and has at least one other

19:17

problem that I can't remember now, but

19:18

that's for the best because my blood

19:20

pressure is high enough already.

19:23

Hopefully, they make something better

19:24

than that. It's brand new. It's from

19:27

Asus. Nvidia didn't share specs though

19:29

for its laptop solutions. Video Cards

19:31

has published some rumored ones. video

19:32

cards list the N1X as a 20 core as a 10

19:35

plus 10 buildout using they say Cortex

19:38

X925 and A725 cores per video cards. It

19:42

also has a 6144 CUDA core arrangement.

19:45

Video cards likewise lists a 9 plus9 and

19:47

a 40SM config stating that quote both

19:50

N1X chips are designed for a 45 watt to

19:52

80 watt power envelope. End quote. And

19:54

rumored specs for the N1 without the X

19:56

have it at 8 plus4 for the CPU, 7 plus 3

19:59

for an alternative CPU with a 2560 or

20:02

2048 CUDA core layout. Nvidia's PR tour

20:05

has been in full swing this past week

20:06

though as Jensen's friend Wally Liao of

20:09

Super Micro faced indictments on

20:11

allegations and charges from the US

20:13

government of GPU smuggling. And also

20:16

just before Jensen arrived here, the

20:18

Taiwanese government raided a dozen

20:20

locations. Also for allegations of GPU

20:24

smuggling and they were seeking

20:26

fugitives at one point in relation to

20:28

that story. Nvidia CEO and man who eats

20:32

corn dogs the long way. Jensen Juan also

20:36

went back to his roots as a Denny's

20:37

waiter just before GTC, giving out food

20:40

to everyone. For every restaurant Jensen

20:43

visited, he was swarmed by press,

20:44

business partners, security, and

20:46

paparazzi. And for the inconvenience of

20:49

packing a restaurant full of business

20:51

partners, press and paparazzi, Jensen

20:54

Juan generously tipped the restaurant

20:57

staff. Just I have to do the math really

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quick.

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310 billionth of his wealth.

21:05

It It sounds like more than it is.

21:09

$2,000 Taiwan dollars from what we could

21:11

see or about 60 bucks US, establishing

21:15

Jensen as the big spender of the

21:17

evening. That's not to mention his

21:19

generosity of handing a street vendor

21:21

another $30 US and asking literally in

21:24

Chinese, "Ga," which just means, "Is it

21:27

enough?"

21:32

>> A man worth almost $200 billion saying,

21:36

"I'll buy for everybody." And and yes,

21:38

food is very cheap here. I think there

21:40

were probably more than $30 worth of

21:43

people buying food, but it it's okay. I

21:46

mean, he's lost the man's stepping over

21:49

$100 bills in the street. He's probably

21:51

if we had $10,000 bills, he would step

21:53

over those, too. So, but Jensen had an

21:55

image to maintain here, treating his

21:56

gargling gaggle to street food. But as

21:59

for the news, it really doesn't seem

22:00

like a coincidence that the Taiwanese

22:02

government orchestrated a bust of GPU

22:05

smugglers right as Nvidia CEO arrived

22:08

and right after Jensen scrambled to fly

22:11

to China with Trump to meet with China's

22:15

own government officials. Just before

22:17

Jensen was swarmed by reporters in

22:19

Taiwan, Taiwanese authorities raided 12

22:21

locations and started looking for

22:22

fugitives accused of smuggling Super

22:24

Micros AI servers with Nvidia GPUs in

22:27

them to China. After months of denying

22:29

any evidence of chip smuggling, which GN

22:32

has itself proven at this point, Jensen

22:34

came close to admitting its existence.

22:36

Well, we're very we're rigorous in

22:38

explaining to all of our partners um all

22:41

of the world's laws and regulations and

22:44

uh we uh insist that they're compliant

22:46

with laws and regulations. Uh

22:48

ultimately, Super Micro has to run their

22:50

own company just as everybody has to run

22:52

their own company and I hope that they

22:54

will they will um uh enhance and improve

22:57

their regulation compliance and uh avoid

23:00

that from happening in the future.

23:02

>> But Jensen did have important news. He

23:04

has continued narrowing down

23:06

what the it is Nvidia actually is.

23:09

>> Because we are not dinosaurs.

23:13

Nvidia, we're not dinosaurs.

23:16

>> We are not We're not a car. We are not a

23:19

car.

23:20

>> It's like never have I ever except for

23:22

billionaires. Never have I ever been a

23:25

dinosaur. Never have I ever been a car.

23:27

Never have I ever been a loser. I am not

23:30

a loser. We are not a loser. We're not

23:33

losers.

23:36

I don't. You're not talking to somebody

23:38

who woke up a loser. And that loser

23:41

added

23:41

>> add to it. Never have I ever smuggled

23:43

GPUs. While on his Taiwan tour as a

23:46

budding food influencer or food

23:48

fluencer, Jensen talked extensively

23:50

about Nvidia's investment in Taiwan. At

23:52

an employee event, Jensen said Nvidia

23:54

would spend $150 billion in Taiwan every

23:57

year. Four years ago, 5 years ago,

24:00

Nvidia was spending about

24:03

1015

24:05

billion a year in Taiwan.

24:08

Now, we're spending 100 going to $150

24:13

billion in Taiwan each year. And that's

24:16

not counting the big spender Jensen is

24:19

for giving these out so recklessly. You

24:21

got to be careful, Jensen. You give too

24:23

many of these out and you'll bankrupt

24:25

the company. I I just even I even Uh-oh.

24:29

Oh I actually need those. I I

24:32

can't step the I can't step over those.

24:34

I'm not This is not This is not one.

24:38

Sorry. Three 10 billionth of my wealth.

24:40

This is a This is far greater. This This

24:43

might be like a couple percentage points

24:44

actually. So I just I'm going to I'm

24:47

just going to keep those safe. It will

24:50

We'll just kind of get back to the news.

24:52

So $150 billion spend, that's a lot of

24:56

money. It's like I don't know like half

24:59

of the revenue for the year more or

25:01

less. But we know Jensen's good for it.

25:04

>> Nvidia is not going to invest uh as much

25:07

as uh 100 billion in open.

25:11

>> We never we never said we were going to

25:13

invest a hundred billion dollars in one

25:15

round. That never was said. As CNBC

25:17

pointed out, Nvidia's forecasted spend

25:19

of 150 billion would far exceed what

25:21

Nvidia makes in one quarter. Nvidia made

25:24

$81.6 billion in revenue last quarter.

25:26

Nvidia has also made other commitments

25:29

for that revenue, if you can still take

25:31

their word for commitments. Normally,

25:32

you might not need to question this, but

25:34

if you're Sam Alman, you might question

25:36

it. Jensen also detailed the new Nvidia

25:39

campus in Taiwan known as Constellation,

25:42

which will be home to about 4,000

25:43

employees. Nvidia said that once the

25:45

site is up and running, it would be

25:47

quote one of the largest AI research and

25:49

development hubs and quote in the

25:51

Asia-Pacific region. While all this has

25:53

been happening, the political backdrop

25:55

has continued to be about GPU smuggling

25:58

and the GPU black market. Benson has

26:00

repeatedly denied allegations of chip

26:02

diversion

26:02

>> and there's no evidence of any AI uh

26:05

chip diversion.

26:06

>> Nvidia's chips are not little tiny

26:09

potato chips. People talk about

26:10

smuggling, but it's incredibly hard to

26:12

do and it's we chase down every

26:14

opportunity, every video statements have

26:16

called smuggling a quote non-starter end

26:19

quote or likened smuggling to tall

26:21

tales. But our own documentary from a

26:23

year ago continues to be proven correct.

26:25

Taiwanese officials are quote seeking to

26:27

detain three individuals for forging

26:29

documents to export Nvidia Corporation

26:32

AI chips to China end quote per GBF

26:36

Bloomberg. Taiwan accused the three

26:38

suspected smugglers of making quote

26:40

fraudulent declarations end quote for

26:42

approximately 50 AI servers manufactured

26:45

by Super Micro. Several days later,

26:47

prosecutors arrested three individuals

26:49

involved in the case for Tom's Hardware

26:51

via Bloomberg. The chip bootleggers

26:53

planned to ship servers to Japan before

26:56

exporting them to China. Reporters asked

26:58

Jensen about the Super Micro smuggling

27:00

case right when he got to Taiwan ahead

27:02

of GTC and Computex. Uh ultimately Super

27:06

Micro has to run their own company just

27:07

as everybody has to run their own

27:09

company.

27:09

>> At this point he has repeatedly gotten

27:12

what he requested.

27:13

>> Every so often somebody says you know

27:15

these GPUs are being smuggled. I really

27:18

would love to see it.

27:19

>> In March the US Department of Justice

27:20

indicted Super Micro co-founder Wally

27:22

Leao and two others for chip smuggling

27:24

in an elaborate billion dollar scheme

27:26

involving decoy servers and haird

27:28

dryers. Something we already detailed in

27:30

a deep dive video that we'll link below.

27:32

Jensen was pictured with Wally Liao

27:34

several days before the US government

27:35

charged Liao with the crime. Just days

27:38

ago before GTC, Super Micro commented on

27:41

the new raids by Taiwanese police.

27:43

Quote, "We are proud to have worked

27:45

closely with Taiwanese authorities on

27:47

the recent event, helping to prevent the

27:49

illicit diversion of our highly

27:51

sought-after systems into the restricted

27:53

China market. Our collaboration with

27:54

authorities in Taiwan resulted in the

27:56

arrest of three suspects and a seizure

27:58

of 50 servers that had been deceptively

28:01

acquired after being sold by Super Micro

28:03

to an authorized reseller. End quote. Do

28:05

you want to I have nothing to hide. Do

28:07

you want to search my car or house or

28:09

warehouse

28:11

filled with dummy servers? Haird dryers.

28:16

Have we moved the dummy servers and the

28:17

haird dryers? You can search the

28:19

warehouse if you want to. While the US

28:21

clears Nvidia's last generation H200 AI

28:23

chips for export to China and while

28:25

Taiwan arrests people for fraud, China

28:28

is responding by this past couple weeks

28:30

banning more Nvidia chips for import

28:33

into China.

28:36

We don't want your stinking chips

28:38

anyway, I guess, is where we're at at

28:39

this point as China tries to bolster its

28:42

own now growing and in some cases

28:45

booming chip development industry.

28:47

According to the Financial Times, the

28:48

Chinese government has now banned the

28:50

RTX 5090 DV2, which in our GPU black

28:54

market smuggling documentary that we

28:55

published last year, we'll link below,

28:58

one of the sellers of that series of

29:00

GPUs called it a castrated version of

29:04

the car. But even with its BGA balls cut

29:07

off, the modified version of the 5090

29:09

that Nvidia created for China to comply

29:11

with the US government's export controls

29:13

is no longer allowed in China because of

29:16

China. This time, China's bans go beyond

29:18

the 5090DV2 ballless GPU. FT also

29:22

reported that China blocked sales for

29:23

Nvidia's chips like the freshly approved

29:26

H200 and H20, specifically to customers

29:29

like Alibaba and Tencent. In January,

29:31

the US government and Nvidia agreed to a

29:33

deal that would give the US government a

29:35

25% cut from Nvidia's H200 sales to

29:38

Chinese customers, which we think is

29:40

likely why the Chinese government

29:41

doesn't want to allow the sale. This

29:43

comes at a time when Dell, a close

29:46

partner of Nvidia's and a recent stock

29:48

purchase of Trump, who bought somewhere

29:49

between$1 and5 million of Dell stock,

29:52

has just been given a nearly $10 billion

29:54

defense contract. Sometimes when I'm

29:56

pulling on my bootstraps, I think to

29:59

myself, "If only I knew about the next

30:01

$10 billion technology defense contract

30:04

deal, I could make millions of dollars

30:07

on that company's stock." I I don't know

30:10

why I haven't tried that yet. Just

30:13

didn't really occur to me.

30:16

The contract includes a quote suite of

30:18

software to the US military end quote

30:20

and references the quote joint

30:22

warfighting cloud capability contract

30:25

end quote again the warfighting cloud

30:29

capability contract and Dell is a major

30:32

customer of both Nvidia and Microsoft

30:35

Soft

30:37

Micro Slopoft Microsoft

30:41

we do have a Microsoft t-shirt on the

30:43

store though which you can buy that help

30:46

us do stuff like this ship posting

30:49

except verbally and a bridge in Taiwan.

30:51

Really the big takeaway here for the

30:52

show is something we've been talking

30:54

about a little bit, but it's just

30:56

becoming more obvious. So, uh it's kind

31:00

of interesting. They they actually they

31:01

did catch me by surprise a little bit a

31:03

couple months ago when they started

31:04

making the push towards this idea of AI

31:06

agents using PCs. We kind of knew they

31:09

were reducing their focus on consumer

31:11

PCs. What was interesting or surprising

31:14

though was this concept of like what if

31:16

we create the people out of thin air to

31:19

sell the computers to instead. Uh that

31:21

was not really I didn't think it would

31:23

go that direction but that's really what

31:25

they're pushing here. I mean I can't

31:26

tell you how many times throughout the

31:28

keynote which is very long. He said that

31:31

they there will be more AI agents using

31:34

computers than people using computers.

31:36

Especially if you do the math at 1

31:38

billion humans like Jensen Juan did. H

31:43

a little little out of touch. But that's

31:45

it for the news. There wasn't a ton of

31:47

sort of hard news that's interesting

31:49

with specs and you know just objective

31:52

information. Certainly not much for

31:54

consumers. We gave you all the stuff

31:55

that's interesting. A lot of more

31:57

concerning movements from Nvidia,

31:59

especially uh on the data center roll

32:03

out, the sort of political side we've

32:04

been talking about. And that'll cover it

32:07

for now for Nvidia. So subscribe for

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Interactive Summary

This video report covers Nvidia's recent keynote and activities at Computex/GTC in Taipei, highlighting Jensen Huang's push to pivot from consumer-focused computing to 'AI factories' designed for autonomous agents. The presentation includes technical details on the new Vera CPU and RTX Spark systems, alongside critical commentary on the company's aggressive expansion, labor practices, and the complex, ongoing issue of GPU smuggling to China despite export controls.

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