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Nov 2024
36m 53s

NVIDIA's Jensen Huang on AI Chip Design,...

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In this week’s episode of No Priors, Sarah and Elad sit down with Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, for the second time to reflect on the company’s extraordinary growth over the past year. Jensen discusses AI’s takeover of datacenters and NVIDIA’s rapid development of x.AI’s supercluster. The conversation also covers Nvidia’s decade-long infrastructure bets, software longevity, and innovations like NVLink. Jensen shares his views on the future of embodied AI, digital employees, and how AI is transforming scientific discovery.

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Show Notes: 

00:00 Introduction

1:22 NVIDIA's 10-year bets

2:28 Outpacing Moore’s Law

3:42 Data centers and NVLink

7:16 Infrastructure flexibility for large-scale training and inference 

10:40 Building and optimizing data centers 

13:30 Maintaining software and architecture compatibility 

15:00 X.AI’s supercluster 

18:55 Challenges of super scaling data centers

20:39 AI’s role in chip design 

22:23 NVIDIA's market cap surge and company evolution 

27:03 Embodied AI

28:33 AI employees

31:25 Impact of AI on science and engineering 

35:40 Jensen’s personal use of AI tools

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