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Tae Kim: NVIDIA United the Tech Industry Against Anthropic
“I think it's been very impressive what they've been, they've basically united the entire tech industry against Anthropic in the last, like, three, four days.”
Sunwalker: Nvidia investments in neoclouds resemble revenue swaps
“You see NVIDIA investing in a lot of Neo clouds that go buy their GPUs. They help start these new, new clouds. And then you have of course, like NVIDIA investing in, in AI labs that end up being like downstream consumers of these GPUs. And so like, I think in …”
Jensen Huang Calls AI Existential Threats and Job Destruction Claims Ridiculous
“On the other hand scaring people with things like saying nonsensical things, which are not gonna happen, that this is an existential threat to humanity. There's 20% chance that is existential. That's ridiculous. That it's gonna wipe out 50% of new college grad…”
Asparouhov: Nvidia exported $20B in chips to Singapore resold to China
“The, you know, articles that came out yesterday talking about you know, NVIDIA basically getting, you know, sort of slapped on the wrist because they were like, we're exporting. I forget what the number was, but like, twenty billion dollars per year of chips t…”
Hays: Nvidia valuation is hard to justify as competitive moats crack
“So at the high level, Nvidia faces an unprecedented convergence of competitive threats that make its premium valuation increasingly difficult to justify at 20 x forward sales and 75% gross margins. The company's supposed moats and hardware software and efficie…”
Coogan: Developers cannot train AI models on AMD due to software bugs
“Like you literally cannot train a model on their chips because it's so buggy and their software is so bad.”
Coogan: Data center financing is moving from VCs to institutional debt
“This is going to move the data center game out of the VCs and into the big leagues.”
Coogan: $500B of compute only covers one year of AI scaling
“Ten billion, or 10 gigawatts of powered compute which is, you know, the labs are at, like, three combined across a few of them and we've been on this three X scaling, so this is really just, like, next year's compute.”
Kim: Nvidia's US-China regulatory approvals will drive billions in H200 orders
“And one thing that kind of went under the radar, Jensen literally said at GTC they got license approvals on both the U.S. And China side, so we're gonna see billions of dollars of H 200 orders.”
Jensen Huang: A $500K engineer must consume $250K in AI tokens
“If that 500,000 dollar engineer did not consume At least 250,000 dollars worth of tokens, I am going to be deeply alarmed.”
Jensen Huang: Nvidia Will Build Orbital Data Centers in Space
“In the future, we'll also build data centers. In the, in space. Obviously, very complicated to do so. We have, we're working with our partners on a new computer called Vera Rubin Space One, and it's going to go out to space and start data centers out, out in s…”
Coogan: ByteDance securing 36,000 Nvidia Blackwell chips via Alawani Cloud
“ByteDance is working with a Southeast Asian company called Alawani Cloud on plans to use some 500 Blackwell computing systems totaling around 36,000 B-two hundred chips.”
Coogan: Nvidia captured over 100% of total AI boom profits
“Nvidia basically captures and did for a while more than 100% of the profits from the AI boom, because so many of the other companies in the AI space were losing money.”
Gurley: Index Funds Already Provide Sufficient AI Exposure for Retail Investors
“There's an interesting irony that if you wanted AI exposure, you're pretty good just owning the index.
NVIDIA is such a large part of the index.
You have exposure to Microsoft and Google and Facebook.
Like, I don't know that you need to be in that place”
Bishop: State Department blocks Commerce-approved NVIDIA H200 sales to China
“What's interesting, right, I think it was the Financial Times reported last week that even though, ah, like, the Department of Commerce has signed off on the licenses to sell to China the H 200, that the Department of State, or the State Department, which has …”
O'Laughlin: Amazon will run out of Trainium and spend heavily on Nvidia
“I think they're gonna run out of Tranium, and the answer is, like, what's the biggest amount of supply chain that's, like, locked up? It's NVIDIA.”
O'Laughlin: Nvidia H100 and B200 GPU pricing has firmed up massively
“Like at this point H 100 pricing has massively firmed up. B 200 pricing definitely has super firmed up. And like, hey, there's clearly demand.”
Patel: Nvidia is diversifying chip architectures due to AI uncertainty
“You've got, like, CPX, you've got, like, the standard GPU, and now you've got the Grok chips, and they all fill a different niche, but really it screams, oh crap, we don't really know exactly where AI is going, which I don't think anyone does, right? I mean, i…”
Huang: Nvidia never promised $100B in one OpenAI round
“No, we never said we were going to invest a hundred billion dollars in one round. That never was said.”
Huang: Nvidia will likely make its largest investment ever in OpenAI
“We will definitely be involved in their next, in their round. We will invest a great deal of money. Probably the largest investment we've ever made.”
Coogan: Nvidia Can Export H200 Chips to China with 25% US Tax
“Now Nvidia can sell to China, but they got to pay 25% to Uncle Sam.”
Trump will allow Nvidia H200 sales to China for 25% cut
“Trump says that the United States will allow Nvidia H 200 chip sales to China and get a 25% cut.”
John Coogan warns AI GPU overbuild lacks the lasting value of railroads
“The problem from the Carlota Perez perspective is that all of this spending on chips is relative to the sort of infrastructure she wrote about railroads, factories, fiber, short lived. If there's a bubble in railroads and we're like, we think railroads are goi…”
John Coogan argues selling Nvidia chips to China weakens domestic Huawei alternatives
“There is a, there is some level of an acceptable argument to this idea that if you continue to push Nvidia chips there, it just makes the Huawei Ascend just a little bit less exciting.”
Altman: No partner but Nvidia can build infrastructure at this scale
“There's like no partner but NVIDIA that could do this at this kind of scale, at this kind of speed.”
Trump taxes Nvidia and AMD China chip sales at 15 percent
“Trump struck a deal with Nvidia and AMD for the federal government to take 15% of their chip sales in China in return for allowing the exports.”
Coogan: Google Is the Only Company With an At-Scale Nvidia ASIC Alternative
“Google is the only company, we talked about the TPU thing, they're the only company with an at-scale ASIC alternative to NVIDIA's GPUs, which should give them a meaningful cost advantage to that end, ah, to the extent that cloud compute becomes commoditized.”
Coogan: No new chip architecture will displace Nvidia GPUs or Google TPUs
“It doesn't seem like there's some new disruptive chip architecture that's gonna come out and obviate the need for both NVIDIA GPUs and Google TPUs, and so Google's very well positioned”
Hammond: Nvidia continually circumvents export controls with sub-threshold chips like the H20
“Every time we introduce an expert control, NVIDIA's two weeks later has a new chip that just gets under the line of what's being controlled. And the latest one is the H-Twenty.”
Valenzuela: It remains very hard for Runway to switch from Nvidia
“I do think it's important. Like I do feel like all of the chips that are being made to compete with NVIDIA are relevant, but for us, it's still like very hard to see where we can switch to be honest.”
Coogan: The sixth-best AI model can still be a profitable commodity
“Intelligence is, is so valuable and LLMs and AI is so valuable that, that, you know, yeah, even if you're like the sixth best model, you can still sell the intelligence if it's at the frontier level to the market at a market clearing price that still generates…”
Coogan: Nvidia booked $7.7B in Singapore chip sales in Q3 2024
“In the three months ended October, 27, 20, 24. So like deep chip ban, just not last quarter, but the quarter before Q three 7.7 billion dollars of chips to Singapore. And it's like, Singapore's not buying that many chips.”
Hays: Nvidia Sustains Luxury Margins on Unseen Data Center Infrastructure
“Nvidia has the margins of a luxury product, but they are building a product that goes and sits in a data center and nobody sees it. No, no, no consumer is going to say, well, I actually really want my model to be running on Nvidia chips”
Coogan: High-Flyer Quant Stockpiled 10,000 Nvidia GPUs Before US Bans
“High Flyer Quant managed to buy more than 10,000 NVIDIA graphics processing units before the U.S. Government imposed the chip bans, according to a local media outlet.”
Hays: Nvidia captures over 100% of all AI industry profits
“Nvidia is the real winner here. You've said it before, they have more than a hundred percent of all the profits in AI right now.”
Coogan: Nvidia captures over 100% of total profits in AI
“Well, they have over 100% of the profits in AI right now. Because all the other companies are losing money, and they're the one that's printing money.”
Nvidia offers $1B in employee retention packages to Hugging Face team
“I mean, the retention packages are apparently a billion dollars for a pretty small team.”
Coogan: Hugging Face Turned Down $500M From Nvidia at $7B Valuation
“They became profitable in 20, 25, still had half the money that they raised. So Nvidia came in to offer five hundred million late 20, 25 at a seven billion valuation, but they turned it down.”
Huang: AI supply constraints will persist across chips, power, and construction
“We're gonna be constrained for some time and pretty much across the board from chips to memories to packaging to systems photonics, connectors, land, power, construction workers, the whole thing.”
Intel Secures $7B From Nvidia and SoftBank Following Federal Intervention
“Since Washington stepped in, as you know, Jordy Intel has pulled five billion of investment from NVIDIA, two billion from Japan's SoftBank, and its shares have more than quadrupled, trouncing those of rivals.”
Google may shift into an Nvidia-style capital partner for AI labs
“I wouldn't be surprised to see Google just shift into more of an Nvidia style role as like a capital partner to a number of Other labs as they, you know, continue to fall.”
Kim: NVIDIA will add major revenue over two years via locked-up supply
“Over the next year or two, you're going to see NVIDIA able to add tons of revenue because they were able to lock up all the supply components.”
Coogan: Nvidia's AI cloud revenue sharing creates unprecedented circularity
“NVIDIA has also partnered with AI cloud firms with revenue sharing, taking circularity to a previously unseen level.”
Huang: NVIDIA is not an interchangeable car company, rejects 'loser premise'
“You're not talking to somebody who woke up a loser, and that loser attitude, that loser premise makes no sense to me. We are not, we're not a car. We are not a car.”
Kim: Jensen Huang secured memory and CoWoS supply agreements early
“He locked up all the supply agreements for memory, COOS, you know, connectors ahead of time.”
Kim: Geopolitical fears are causing an irrational Nvidia stock drawdown
“Just like tariffs a year ago, NVIDIA had a 30% drawdown when their business was actually flying, the actual final of their business. I think the same thing is happening here with the Iran war. Things will eventually subside”
Kim: Jensen Huang's relationships secure Nvidia preferential TSMC wafer allocations
“NVIDIA is in the driver's seat because Jensen goes there five, six times a year and he has best friends at TSMC and speaks at their employee day. So they're going to get higher. They are getting a higher allocation to wafers and all that stuff.”