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Oct 2024
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Ep17. Welcome Jensen Huang | BG2 w/ Bill...

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Open Source bi-weekly convo w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner on all things tech, markets, investing & capitalism. This week, Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, makes a guest appearance. In Bill’s absence, Brad is joined by Clark Tang (Partner at Altimeter) as they discuss with Jensen scaling intelligence towards AGI, the acceleration of machine learning, NVIDIA's competitive advantages, the significance of inference alongside training, future market dynamics in the AI landscape, the impact of AI on various industries, the future of work, inference time reasoning, AI’s potential to enhance productivity, the balance between open source and closed source, Elon’s Memphis Supercluster, X.ai, OpenAI, the safe development of AI, & more. Enjoy another episode of BG2.



Chapters


(00:00) Introduction


(1:50) The Evolution of AGI and Personal Assistants


(06:03) NVIDIA's Competitive Moat


(15:51 ) The Future of Inference and Training in AI


(19:01) Building the AI Infrastructure


(31:35) Inventing a New Market in an AI Future


(38:40) The Impact of OpenAI


(43:25) The Future of AI Models


(46.44) X.ai and Memphis Supercluster


(51:21) Distributed Computing and Inference Scaling


(55:54) Inference Time Reasoning and Its Importance


(01:00:46) AI's Role in Growing Business and Improving Productivity


(01:08:00) Ensuring Safe AI Development


(01:12:31) The Balance of Open Source and Closed Source AI



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