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Nvidia's BF16 Efficiency Barely Improves Across Hopper, Blackwell, and Rubin
“If you look at, you know, Hopper to Blackwell to Rubin, and you compare like for like, what is the performance per watt of a beefload-sixteen multiply? It hasn't improved all that much.”
Neil Movva Aug 25, 2026 ▶ 1:16:40 Ex-NVIDIA Engineer: Why AI Is About to Get 1000x Cheaper
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Baker: Wall Street models hyperscaler Blackwell compute monetizing at Ampere rates
“If you look at the amount of gigawatts that are supposed to come on, and consensus estimates for hyperscalers, they're effectively modeled, and these are gigawatts of Blackwell and Rubin. Rubin being NVIDIA's next chip, Blackwell being the current chip. They a…”
Gavin Baker Aug 4, 2026 ▶ 13:35 Why the Markets Are Pricing AI Wrong | Gavin Baker · Invest Like The Best
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Nvidia's Rubin architecture will significantly widen its lead over custom ASICs
“And then when Rubin comes out, we'll know the gap. The gap is going to expand significant versus TPUs versus TPUs and all other ASICs.”
Gavin Baker Dec 9, 2025 ▶ 15:53 GPUs, TPUs, & The Economics of AI Explained | Gavin Baker Interview · Invest Like The Best
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Financial economics will dictate AI capital spending over hyperscaler prisoner's dilemmas
“But with Blackwell, and for sure with Rubin, economics are going to dominate the prisoner's dilemma from a decision making and spending perspective, just because the numbers are so big.”
Gavin Baker Dec 9, 2025 ▶ 25:32 GPUs, TPUs, & The Economics of AI Explained | Gavin Baker Interview · Invest Like The Best
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