Neil Tiwari of Magnetar Capital discusses Nvidia's vision of on-premise dedicated enterprise AI computing facilities versus centralized hyperscaler clouds.
“Corporates fortune, you know, 500 AI companies that use a ton of compute will want dedicated AI factories associated with workloads that they run and that they have control over.”
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