CUDA

6 statements across 3 episodes · 4 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Oct 13, 2024 by Sunny Madra · said 34 times in 11 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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Oct 13, 2024 bearish
Opinion
Madra: NVIDIA's CUDA moat does not exist for inference workloads
“There is no Tie into CUDA that's required to go faster. That's required to get the models running, right? Obviously none of the three companies run CUDA. And so that moat doesn't exist around inference.”
Sunny Madra Oct 13, 2024 ▶ 24:01 Ep18. Jensen Recap - Competitive Moat, X.AI, Smart Assistant | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Oct 13, 2024 bullish
Insight
Gurley: NVIDIA's competitive advantage is strongest at massive system scale
“NVIDIA's competitive advantage is strongest where the size of the system is largest, which is another way of saying what Renee said. It's flipping it on its head. It's not to say it's weak on the edge, but it's super powerful when you put a whole bunch of them…”
Bill Gurley Oct 13, 2024 ▶ 15:27 Ep18. Jensen Recap - Competitive Moat, X.AI, Smart Assistant | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Oct 13, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Gerstner: NVIDIA's CUDA library has over 300 industry-specific acceleration algorithms
“The CUDA library now has over 300 industry specific acceleration algorithms, right? Where they deeply learn the industry, right? So whether this is synthetic biology or this is image generation, or this is autonomous driving, they learn the needs of that indus…”
Brad Gerstner Oct 13, 2024 ▶ 6:29 Ep18. Jensen Recap - Competitive Moat, X.AI, Smart Assistant | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Oct 13, 2024 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Madra: Fewer developers will touch CUDA long-term, weakening NVIDIA's software moat
“I think there's going to be fewer people touching that. And I do think that's a point where they're the moat is not as strong as a longer term, as you say, and think about like, you know, the way the analogy that I would go with is like, think about the number…”
Sunny Madra Oct 13, 2024 ▶ 9:08 Ep18. Jensen Recap - Competitive Moat, X.AI, Smart Assistant | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Feb 5, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Gurley: DeepSeek bypassed Nvidia's CUDA framework for low-level optimization
“One, it's validated now that they went around CUDA, and I just think that's interesting.”
Bill Gurley Feb 5, 2025 ▶ 6:45 DeepSeek, Open Source, Tariffs, DOGE, Market Impact | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
May 22, 2025 positive
Opinion
Gerstner: The US should sell AI chips to China to protect the CUDA ecosystem
“Are we better off selling to those countries, those companies, keeping companies like ByteDance and Tencent, et cetera, in the CUDA ecosystem, rather than allowing all of that data, all of those profits to flow right into the Huawei ecosystem and benefit the C…”
Brad Gerstner May 22, 2025 ▶ 29:59 AI, Middle East, China, Tariffs, Recon Bill, Invest America | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
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