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Calacanis: Nvidia will decline or severely downgrade investment in OpenAI
“I think NVIDIA is not going to take their option to invest in open AI, or they're going to really downgrade at 70, 80%, and they're going to allocate it to other players.”
Chamath: Nvidia will likely compete directly with GCP, AWS, and Azure
“So I think it's likely that Nvidia goes on a full frontal assault against GCP and Amazon and Microsoft.”
Sacks: Anthropic Lobbied to Restrict Nvidia's International Chip Sales
“Anthropic has really been behind a lot of the political activity to restrict Nvidia's sales internationally.”
Gavin Baker: Selling deprecated Nvidia GPUs to China delays Chinese semiconductor independence
“I think selling in deprecated Nvidia GPUs to China. Lowers the odds of them developing their own alternative ecosystem, which would be a lot power hungrier because you use optical, you bring in optical a lot earlier for scale up fabrics.”
Baker: Competitors withhold custom AI ASICs from benchmarks because they would lose
“These other ASICs. . Are not being submitted for benchmarks. They're not in the CB analysis inference max. They're not in MLperf. I think the reason they're not being submitted is they will lose.”
Huang: Chinese firms placed purchase orders with Nvidia following license approvals
“We informed the Chinese companies and many of them have given us purchase orders. And so we're gonna, we're in the process of cranking up our supply chain again to go ship.”
Jensen Huang: Nvidia's market share in China fell from 95% to 0%
“At the current moment as we speak, NVIDIA gave up a 95% market share in the second largest market in the world, and we're at zero percent.”
Huang: Free competing chips aren't cheap enough if throughput lags Nvidia
“That's the reason why I said that even for most chips, if you can't keep up with the state of the technology and the pace that we're running, even when the chips are free, it's not cheap enough.”
Huang: US will produce $500B in AI supercomputers over next four years
“In Arizona and Texas, we will, in the next four years, probably produce about half a trillion dollars worth of AI supercomputers.”
Friedberg: Chinese semiconductor advances will threaten Nvidia in the near term
“So I do think that there's going to be an emergent competitive threat coming out of China to NVIDIA. And just like we were knocked over by DeepSeq, I think we will be knocked over by some semiconductor manufacturing processes coming out of China in the near te…”
Tech stocks and Nvidia face market punishment over unproven AI spend
“If you do not start seeing revenue flow to the bottom line of these companies that are spending twenty six billion dollars a quarter, The market cap of Nvidia is not what the market cap of Nvidia should be, and all of these other companies are going to get pun…”
Chamath asserts Nvidia hardware is miscast for AI inference
“NVIDIA is really good at training and very miscast at inference.”
Chamath: Nvidia's power and supply chain strategy is unsustainable
“There's some very important nuances around power and around supply chain decisions and technology decisions that, frankly, some people would think are unsustainable. And the more I understand them, I would be in that camp as well.”
Chamath: Nvidia is the only major tech company firing on all cylinders
“The reality is those seven companies. One of them, Nvidia, is actually firing on all cylinders. Everybody else just stopped acting like a fucking moron.”
Chamath: Chip and cloud investments in AI startups round-trip cash
“So whenever I see a chip maker and a cloud provider come together to put in a lot of money, it's essentially round tripping cash. They're giving them money, which then they use to buy their services. And then you know, you just you're just pumping revenue.”
Calacanis: Nvidia is OpenAI and Anthropic's top competitor in enterprise compute
“And I believe right now, starting today, NVIDIA is the number one competitor for OpenAI and Anthropic, not just for tokens, but for enterprise compute.”
Chamath: Nvidia's Hugging Face deal is one of AI's most critical transactions
“This hugging face thing. Will go down as one of the most important transactions in AI, because you are creating now in the largest competitor and the largest, most well-capitalized company, a bulwark. Against all of this closed source oligopoly insanity.”
Calacanis: Nvidia will surpass Chinese AI models by end of 2027
“He's going to catch up and blow past China and the Chinese models, I think by the end of 20, 27.”
Chamath: Big tech will vertically integrate clouds, models, and silicon within five years
“You're going to look at these big companies in five years. They're all going to have their own cloud. They're all going to have their own models. They're all going to have their own silicon. They're all going to have their own data centers. Soup to nuts, they'…”
Baker: Nvidia is functioning as the central bank of AI
“In some ways, NVIDIA is kind of becoming the central bank of AI. The Federal Reserve of AI. That is like a way to kind of conceptualize what they are doing. And in the same way, the federal reserve, like a lot of monetary policy, it works through private banks…”
Feldman: GPU builders have near-zero chance of outperforming NVIDIA
“So if you build a GPU, the odds that you're better than NVIDIA in our view are approximately zero.”
Dan Loeb: NVIDIA is absolutely undervalued based on multi-year earnings
“Yeah, absolutely. On earnings over the next two or three years.”
Baker: Nvidia's Western AI business grows faster than Broadcom's
“Within the Western AI world, Within data centers that need being built, whether they're being built by CoreWeave, XAI, Amazon, Google, NVIDIA's AI business is growing faster than Broadcoms.”
Chamath: Domain-specific architecture evolution is happening inside Nvidia
“The reality is that that DSA Market evolution is actually happening inside of Nvidia.”
Baker: AI hardware sector valuations are cross-sectionally inefficient and inconsistent
“Cross-sectionally, if you look at the valuations for all these AI names, they just, they can't all be accurate... The AI market is cross-sectionally inefficient right now, which is what I was trying to say.”
Gavin Baker: Major tech firms are convinced orbital compute will become reality
“Google, Anthropic, Amazon, NVIDIA. They are all very convinced that orbital compute is going to be reality, and obviously SpaceX is extraordinarily well positioned for that.”
Gavin Baker: Nvidia trades at low to mid-teens multiple of real earnings
“And, you know, these, the Nvidia of the tech bubble is Cisco and it traded a hundred times forward earnings. And, you know, I think Nvidia is probably at a low teens, multiple of kind of low to mid teens, multiple of real earnings.”
Chamath: Nvidia will do $350B+ revenue and $200B free cash flow next year
“This thing is going to do 350 plus billion of revenue next year, two hundred billion of free cash flow.”
Huang: Nvidia's $50B inference factory yields the lowest token cost
“It is very likely that the fifty billion dollar factory, and in fact, I can prove it, that the fifty billion dollar factory will generate for you the lowest cost tokens.”
Jensen Huang predicts everything that moves will eventually be autonomous
“We believe that everything that moves will be autonomous, completely or partly. Someday.”
Huang: Nvidia is gaining AI infrastructure market share
“Surprisingly, NVIDIA's gaining market share. If you look at where we are today, we're gaining share.”
Huang: $2T telecom industry will transform into AI infrastructure
“One of the most important ones is one that we're working on that basically turns the telecommunications base stations Into part of the AI infrastructure. So now, all of the, it's a two trillion dollar industry. All of that in time will be transformed into an e…”
Sacks: China is blocking Nvidia chips to subsidize and elevate Huawei
“I think Bloomberg and Reuters reported that they actually are not allowing Nvidia chips into their country, and the reason for that, we think, is that they want to indigenize chip production. They want to stand up Huawei as their national champion, and effecti…”
Lutnick: Nvidia must send chips to US for government testing
“So the way we're doing it is he has to send the chips to America. We test the chip to make sure that he hasn't enhanced it in any way.”
Friedberg: Huawei will challenge Nvidia in 2026 using undisclosed lithography tech
“My early prediction for twenty-twenty-six is Huawei, where I think that there's lithography technology, that exists in China that is not publicly discussed, that is going to be deployed in Huawei and all these fabs that they're building in mainland China.”
Friedberg: Nvidia is the only company capturing massive AI value so far
“There isn't an aggregation at this stage of value creation with the exception of Nvidia, which has really got this three trillion dollar market cap creation that's happened in the last couple of years.”
Gerstner: Wall Street estimates Nvidia revenue growth flatlining under 10% CAGR from 2027-2029
“So if you look at that estimate, you know, starting in 20, 27, it basically flatlines 27 through 29 for Nvidia. Right? Less than 10% CAGR in terms of the growth for NVIDIA. They have by 20 29, them doing three hundred and sixty billion in revenue compared to t…”
Trump claims NVIDIA committed to a $500 billion investment over four years
“NVIDIA has committed five hundred billion dollars over the next four years.”
Huang: I have created more billionaires on my management team than anyone
“First of all, I've created more billionaires on my management team than any CEO in the world.”
Huang predicts everything that moves will eventually be autonomous
“Everything in the world that moves will be autonomous someday. And that someday is probably around the corner.”
Rabois: AI allows small businesses to eat mid-market companies
“So the large, largest players, the NVIDIAs of the world, do benefit the more people that run, compute, etc. But then I think that the smaller businesses actually eat at mid-market companies because they can compete now and they've been at an economic disadvant…”
Baker: Nvidia's H20 chip is two years ahead of Huawei's chips
“It's called two years ahead of kind of the chips from Huawei.”
Baker: Exporting Nvidia H20 chips deters China from creating rival AI accelerators
“It's a smart decision for America to sell this chip that gives America an advantage in AI and keeps China from developing kind of their own domestic alternatives, which could eventually kind of challenge, you know, Nvidia, AMD, you know, other kind of American…”
Lafont: Nvidia and Tesla are top picks for 5-year AI dominance
“Look, I think to me, number one, I still think NVIDIA, right? I don't see the GPU kind of getting displaced. I see additional architectures kind of coming on board, right? And growing the market. But at the end of the day, all roads still lead to the GPU for a…”
Palihapitiya: 47% of Nvidia's revenue comes from China and related regions
“About 47% of all of Nvidia's revenue goes to China and Chinese-related Countries.”
Palihapitiya: Nvidia will use plausible deniability to defend Asian chip sales
“This is a case where you have plausible deniability, right? I sell something to a Singaporean registered company. Plausible deniability. What am I supposed to do? You can't expect me to audit it. I think that's what Nvidia's answer will be to this question.”